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Introduction: The Roar of Silence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2021

Arash Zeini  and
Adam Benkato
Arash Zeini
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Freie Universität Berlin
Adam Benkato
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkley
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , July 2021 , pp. 395 - 402
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François de Blois's Publication List

Blois, François de. 1990. Burzōy's voyage to India and the origin of the book of Kalīlah wa Dimnah (Royal Asiatic Society Prize Publication Fund 23). London.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1992–1997. Persian literature, a Bio-bibliographical Survey. Begun by the late C. A. Storey. Volume V: Poetry of the pre-Mongol Period, Parts 1–3. London.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 2004. Persian Literature, a Bio-bibliographical Survey. Begun by the late C. A. Storey. Volume V: Poetry of the pre-Mongol Period. 2nd Revised Edition. London: Routledge Curzon.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 2011. Arabic, Persian and Gujarati manuscripts: The Hamdani Collection in the Library of the Institute of Ismaili Studies. London and New York: I. B. Tauris.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sims-Williams, Nicholas and de Blois, François. 2018. Studies in the Chronology of the Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan, with contributions by Harry Falk and Dieter Weber (Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik 83). Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de and Sims-Williams, Nicholas (eds.). 2006. Dictionary of Manichaean texts. Volume II: Texts from Iraq and Iran (Texts in Syriac, Arabic, Persian and Zoroastrian Middle Persian). Turnhout: Brepols.Google Scholar
Sundermann, Werner, Hintze, Almut and de Blois, François (eds.). 2009. Exegisti monumenta: festschrift in honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams (Iranica 17). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.Google Scholar
Blois, François de and Hamdani, Abbas. 1983. A re-examination of al-Mahdī's letter to the Yemenites on the genealogy of the Fatimid caliphs. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 115(2). pp. 173–207.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1984. Clan-names in ancient Ethiopia. Die Welt des Orients 15. pp. 123–125.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1984. Laylat al-māšūš: Marginalia to al-Bayrūni, Abū Nuwās, and other authors. Journal of Semitic Studies 29. pp. 81–96.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1984. The admonitions of Ādurbād and their relationship to the Aḥīqar legend. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 116(1). pp. 41–53.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1984. The oldest known Fatimid manuscript from Yemen. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 14. pp. 1–7.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1985. “Freemen” and “nobles” in Iranian and Semitic languages. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 117(1). pp. 5–15.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1986. The Abū Saʻīdīs, or so-called “Qarmatians” of Baḥrayn. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 16. pp. 13–21.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1987. Abū Ṭāhir's letter to the Caliph al-Muqtadir. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 17. pp. 21–35.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1989. Maka and Mazūn. Studia Iranica 18. pp. 157–167.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1990. C. A. Storey's Persian literature, an interim report. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 122(2). pp. 370–375.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1990. The date of the “martyrs of Nagrān.” Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 1. pp. 110–128.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1990. The Middle-Persian inscription from Constantinople: Sasanian or post-Sasanian? Studia Iranica 19. pp. 209–218.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1991. The Pañcatantra: From India to the West, and back. In Grube, Ernst J. (ed.), A Mirror for Princes from India: Illustrated Versions of the Kalilah Wa Dimnah, Anvar-I Suhayli, Iyar-I Danish, and Humayun Nameh, pp. 10–15. Bombay: Marg Foundation.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1992. The “four great kingdoms” in the Manichaean Kephalaia. In Scholz, Piotr O. (ed.), Bibliotheca nubica 3, Orbis Aethiopicus, Studia in honorem Stanislaus Chojnacki natali septuagesimo quinto dicata, septuagesimo septimo oblata, pp. 221–230. Albstadt: Karl Schuler.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1993. A tomb made of horses’ hooves. Bulletin of the Asia Institute New Series 7. pp. 31–34.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1993. Middle-Persian funerary inscriptions from South-Western Iran. In Skalmowski, W. and van Tongerloo, Alois (eds.), Medioiranica. Proceedings of the International Colloquium organized by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from the 21st to the 23rd of May 1990 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 48), pp. 29–43. Louvain.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1993. Two sources of the handarz of Ōšnar. Iran 31. pp. 95–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1994. Elamite survivals in Western Iranian. Studia Iranica Mesopotamica et Anatolica 1. pp. 13–19.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1995. “Place” and “throne” in Persian. Iran 33. pp. 61–65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1995. The “Sabians” (ṣābi’ūn) in Pre-Islamic Arabia. Acta Orientalia 56. pp. 39–61.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1995. Who is King Amaro? Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 6. pp. 196–198.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1996. A bilingual poem by Ḥāfiẓ. Oriente Moderno 2. pp. 379–384.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1996. Shuhayd al-Balkhī, a poet and philosopher of the time of Rāzī. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 59(2). pp. 333–337.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1996. The Persian calendar. Iran 34. pp. 39–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de and Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 1996. The Bactrian calendar. Bulletin of the Asia Institute New Series 10. pp. 149–165.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1998. ‘Addendum’ [translation of and commentary on the beginning of book III of al-Bayrūnī's al-Qānūn al-Mas‘ūdī]. In Tessere il cielo. Rome.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1998. The Iftikhāriyān of Qazvīn. In Eslami, Kambij (ed.), Iran and Iranian studies Essays in honor of Iraj Afshar, pp. 13–23. Princeton: Zagros Press.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1998. The month and its divisions in ancient South Arabia. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 28. pp. 15–20.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1999. Ḥijāratun min sijjīl. Acta Orientalia 60. pp. 82–95.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 2000. A Persian poem lamenting the Arab conquest. In Hillenbrand, Carol (ed.), Studies in Honour of Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Volume II. The Sultan's Turret: Studies in Persian and Turkish Culture, pp. 82–95. Leiden: Brill.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 2000. Dualism in Iranian and Christian traditions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 10(1). pp. 1–19.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Blois, François de. 2000. [Review of] An anthology of philosophy in Persia, Volume I, (ed.) by Nasr, Seyyed Hossein and Aminrazavi, Mehdi, JRAS, pp. 247–249.Google Scholar
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Blois, François de. 2003. [Review of] Iranian Manichaean Turfan texts in publications since 1934. Photo edition, edited by Weber, Dieter, JRAS, pp. 117–118.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 2003. [Review of] “Christoph Luxenberg”, Die syro-aramäische Lesart des Koran, in Journal of Qur'anic studies V, pp. 92–97.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1990. Burzōy's voyage to India and the origin of the book of Kalīlah wa Dimnah (Royal Asiatic Society Prize Publication Fund 23). London.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1992–1997. Persian literature, a Bio-bibliographical Survey. Begun by the late C. A. Storey. Volume V: Poetry of the pre-Mongol Period, Parts 1–3. London.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 2004. Persian Literature, a Bio-bibliographical Survey. Begun by the late C. A. Storey. Volume V: Poetry of the pre-Mongol Period. 2nd Revised Edition. London: Routledge Curzon.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 2011. Arabic, Persian and Gujarati manuscripts: The Hamdani Collection in the Library of the Institute of Ismaili Studies. London and New York: I. B. Tauris.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sims-Williams, Nicholas and de Blois, François. 2018. Studies in the Chronology of the Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan, with contributions by Harry Falk and Dieter Weber (Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik 83). Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de and Sims-Williams, Nicholas (eds.). 2006. Dictionary of Manichaean texts. Volume II: Texts from Iraq and Iran (Texts in Syriac, Arabic, Persian and Zoroastrian Middle Persian). Turnhout: Brepols.Google Scholar
Sundermann, Werner, Hintze, Almut and de Blois, François (eds.). 2009. Exegisti monumenta: festschrift in honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams (Iranica 17). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.Google Scholar
Blois, François de and Hamdani, Abbas. 1983. A re-examination of al-Mahdī's letter to the Yemenites on the genealogy of the Fatimid caliphs. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 115(2). pp. 173–207.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1984. Clan-names in ancient Ethiopia. Die Welt des Orients 15. pp. 123–125.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1984. Laylat al-māšūš: Marginalia to al-Bayrūni, Abū Nuwās, and other authors. Journal of Semitic Studies 29. pp. 81–96.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1984. The admonitions of Ādurbād and their relationship to the Aḥīqar legend. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 116(1). pp. 41–53.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1984. The oldest known Fatimid manuscript from Yemen. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 14. pp. 1–7.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1985. “Freemen” and “nobles” in Iranian and Semitic languages. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 117(1). pp. 5–15.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1986. The Abū Saʻīdīs, or so-called “Qarmatians” of Baḥrayn. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 16. pp. 13–21.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1987. Abū Ṭāhir's letter to the Caliph al-Muqtadir. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 17. pp. 21–35.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1989. Maka and Mazūn. Studia Iranica 18. pp. 157–167.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1990. C. A. Storey's Persian literature, an interim report. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 122(2). pp. 370–375.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1990. The date of the “martyrs of Nagrān.” Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 1. pp. 110–128.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1990. The Middle-Persian inscription from Constantinople: Sasanian or post-Sasanian? Studia Iranica 19. pp. 209–218.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1991. The Pañcatantra: From India to the West, and back. In Grube, Ernst J. (ed.), A Mirror for Princes from India: Illustrated Versions of the Kalilah Wa Dimnah, Anvar-I Suhayli, Iyar-I Danish, and Humayun Nameh, pp. 10–15. Bombay: Marg Foundation.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1992. The “four great kingdoms” in the Manichaean Kephalaia. In Scholz, Piotr O. (ed.), Bibliotheca nubica 3, Orbis Aethiopicus, Studia in honorem Stanislaus Chojnacki natali septuagesimo quinto dicata, septuagesimo septimo oblata, pp. 221–230. Albstadt: Karl Schuler.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1993. A tomb made of horses’ hooves. Bulletin of the Asia Institute New Series 7. pp. 31–34.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1993. Middle-Persian funerary inscriptions from South-Western Iran. In Skalmowski, W. and van Tongerloo, Alois (eds.), Medioiranica. Proceedings of the International Colloquium organized by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from the 21st to the 23rd of May 1990 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 48), pp. 29–43. Louvain.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1993. Two sources of the handarz of Ōšnar. Iran 31. pp. 95–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1994. Elamite survivals in Western Iranian. Studia Iranica Mesopotamica et Anatolica 1. pp. 13–19.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1995. “Place” and “throne” in Persian. Iran 33. pp. 61–65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1995. The “Sabians” (ṣābi’ūn) in Pre-Islamic Arabia. Acta Orientalia 56. pp. 39–61.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1995. Who is King Amaro? Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 6. pp. 196–198.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1996. A bilingual poem by Ḥāfiẓ. Oriente Moderno 2. pp. 379–384.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1996. Shuhayd al-Balkhī, a poet and philosopher of the time of Rāzī. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 59(2). pp. 333–337.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 1996. The Persian calendar. Iran 34. pp. 39–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de and Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 1996. The Bactrian calendar. Bulletin of the Asia Institute New Series 10. pp. 149–165.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1998. ‘Addendum’ [translation of and commentary on the beginning of book III of al-Bayrūnī's al-Qānūn al-Mas‘ūdī]. In Tessere il cielo. Rome.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1998. The Iftikhāriyān of Qazvīn. In Eslami, Kambij (ed.), Iran and Iranian studies Essays in honor of Iraj Afshar, pp. 13–23. Princeton: Zagros Press.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1998. The month and its divisions in ancient South Arabia. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 28. pp. 15–20.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 1999. Ḥijāratun min sijjīl. Acta Orientalia 60. pp. 82–95.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 2000. A Persian poem lamenting the Arab conquest. In Hillenbrand, Carol (ed.), Studies in Honour of Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Volume II. The Sultan's Turret: Studies in Persian and Turkish Culture, pp. 82–95. Leiden: Brill.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 2000. Dualism in Iranian and Christian traditions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 10(1). pp. 1–19.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 2000. The Manichaean daily prayers. In Emmerick, Ronald E. and Zieme, Peter (eds.), Studia Manichaica. IV. Internationaler Kongreß zum Manichäismus, Berlin, 14.-18. Juli 1997, pp. 49–54. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 2001. The Turfan fragment M 28 I. In Ṣādiq, A. A. (ed.), Tafazzoli memorial volume, pp. 9–15. Tehran.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 2002. Naṣrānī (Nαζωραιος) and ḥanīf (ɛθνικός): studies on the religious vocabulary of Christianity and of Islam. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 65. pp. 1–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blois, François de. 2003. Manes’ twin in Iranian and non-Iranian sources. In Religious themes and texts of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia: Studies in honour of Professor Gherardo Gnoli, pp. 7–16. Wiesbaden.Google Scholar
Blois, François de. 2003. Pahr(ag)bed. In Iranica selecta. Studies in honour of Professor Wojciech Skalmowski on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, pp. 37–40. Turnhout.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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