نوع مقاله : پژوهشی

نویسنده

استادیار باستان‌شناسی، عضو هیئت علمی، دانشگاه جیرفت، جیرفت، ایران

چکیده

سامان سیاسی ـ اداری شاهنشاهی ساسانی از نظر تأثیر، تأثرات، و نیز تحولاتی که آن را به دولتی بسیار ساختارمند تبدیل کرد، موضوع مطالعات متعددی بوده است. در این ‌بین، پژوهش‌های ریکا گیزلن در توسعۀ این حوزۀ مطالعاتی نقش محوری ایفا کرده است. سی سال پس از اولین کتاب یادمانی وی دراین‌باره، در سال 1989 انتشار کتاب جغرافیای اداری شاهنشاهی ساسانی. شواهد کتیبه‌‌شناختی پارسی میانه به‌قلم این نویسنده فرصت به‌ثمرنشستن این توسعه‌‌ها را فراهم کرده است. بنابراین، هدف‌های اصلی مقالۀ حاضر مرور کتاب و تعیین جایگاهش در حوزۀ مطالعاتی مربوطه، درکنار معرفی نویسنده‌اش، است. بدین منظور، بخش‌های گوناگون این کتاب و مطالب موردتمرکز هریک به‌گونه‌‌ای دقیق ارائه شده‌اند و دستاوردهای این کتاب در پیش‌برد دانش و کاربردش برای پژوهش‌گران ذکر شده‌‌ است. در پایان مقاله، به‌ایجاز پیش‌نهادهایی برای بعضی اصلاحات و ترسیم نقشۀ راهی برای پژوهش‌های بعدی فراهم شده‌‌ است. با مرور این کتاب، درمی‌‌یابیم که نویسنده روش پژوهش خود را برپایۀ مطالعۀ تطبیقی و درزمانی منابع اصلی کتیبه‌‌شناختی پارسی میانه نهاده است. بنابراین، پیکرۀ کامل داده‌‌ها در دو کاتالوگ جامع هم‌راه با توضیحات زبان‌‌شناختی و تاریخی فراهم شده و مدارکی متقن برای جغرافیای اداری دولت ساسانی و پویایی‌های آن ارائه شده‌‌ است.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Field of the Administrative Geography of the Sasanian Empire on the Auspicious Occasion of the Publication of La Géographie Administrative de l’Émpire Sassanide. Les Témoignages Épigraphiques en Moyen-Perse

نویسنده [English]

  • Hossein Habibi

Assistant Professor, University of Jiroft, Department of Archaeology, Jiroft, Iran

چکیده [English]

The political and administrative structures of the Sasanian Empire have been the focus of numerous research. For the rather recent developments of the subject, though, Rika Gyselen’s studies have been crucial. Thirty years after her trailblazing 1989’s book in the field, the publication of La géographie administrative de l’empire sassanide. Les témoignages épigraphiques en moyen-perse have brought about these developments fulfilled and provided us with yet another monumental work of research on the dynamics of the administrative geography of the state. Therefore, the main focuses of this essay are concerned with the review of the latter book and the progress it achieved in the field, along with the academic background of the author. To that end, the content of each chapter is meticulously presented and its potentialities for authorities is noted. Then, some points that could have improved the work and helped it to meet further expectations of an even more comprehensive repertoire, together with suggestions for future research, are succinctly provided. The book delivers a factual account while founding the research design on the examination of Middle-Persian epigraphic primary sources. Therefore, a catalogue raisonné presents a state-of-the-art corpus of Sasanian scholarship according to a diachronic-comparative approach.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Administrative Geography of the Sasanian Empire
  • Epigraphy
  • Sigillography
  • Seal
  • Bulla
  • Numismatics
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