ECIS 9 Conference - MUYA Panel

Almut Hintze

Céline Redard

Kerman Daruwalla

Mariano Errichiello

Benedikt Peschl

Leon Goldman

Martina Palladino

Left: Nicholas Sims-Williams

Aleksander Engeskaug

Yousef Moradi (read by Almut Hintze)

As part of the recent Ninth European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS 9) which was held at the Freie Universität Berlin from the 9th-13th September 2019, the MUYA project convened a panel titled ‘Zoroastrian Rituals in Priestly Performance and Textual Transmission’. The panel consisted of the following seven presentations:

• Prof. Almut Hintze ‘Word, sound and action in the Zoroastrian ritual’

• Dr. Céline Redard ‘The Srōš Drōn and its ritual performance’

• Mr. Kerman Daruwalla ‘The Kadimi priestly rituals in India: a continuation of the Iranian tradition of the long liturgy’

• Mr. Mariano Errichiello ‘An esoterica interpretation of the Zoroastrian liturgy: the Khshnoomist perspective’

• Mr. Benedikt Peschl ‘Yasna 28.11, Yašt 1 and the Warštmānsar Nask: untangling the intertextual network in the Zoroastrian textual tradition’

• Dr. Leon Goldman ‘Shifting Zands: the hermeneutics of the Zoroastrian ritual tradition in Sanskrit’

• Dr. Martina Palladino ‘Zoroastrian rituals on Indian soil: the Sanskrit Yasna in India’.

In addition, MUYA collaborator Prof. Nicholas Sims-Williams spoke on ‘The Khotanese particle -u’, SOAS Ph.D. candidate Mr. Aleksander Engeskaug gave a presentation on the topic ‘What did Sasanian farms look like?’, and Prof. Almut Hintze read a joint paper prepared with Dr. Yousef Moradi titled ‘A collection of Sasanian clay bullae found in Takt-e Solaymān: an interim report’.

We are grateful to have had the opportunity to share our research with the wider academic community and for the many fruitful discussions that ensued.

We wish to thank the organising committee of the ECIS 9 for their hard work and extend our congratulations for convening a very successful and very enjoyable conference.