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Authored Books
Sims-Williams, Nicholas and De Blois, Francois (2018) Studies in the chronology of the Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. (Denkschriften der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse)
De Blois, Francois (1997) Persian literature; Volume V, part 3. London: Royal Asiatic society of Great Britain and Ireland.
De Blois, Francois (1994) Persian literature Volume V, Pt. 2, Poetry ca. A.D. 1100 to 1225. London: Luzac.
De Blois, Francois (1990) Burzoy's voyage to India and the origin of the book of Kalilah wa Dimnah. London: Royal Asiatic Society.
Edited Book or Journal Volume
Sundermann, Werner, Hintze, Almut and De Blois, Francois, eds. (2009) Exegisti monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Iranica 17)
De Blois, Francois, ed. (2003) Burzuy i tabib wa mansha’ i Kalila wa Dimna [Persian translation of the preceding by Sadiq Sajjadi]. Tehran: Tehran.
Book Chapters
De Blois, Francois (2010) 'Islam in its Arabian context.' In: Neuwirth, Angelika, Sinai, Nicolai and Marx, Angelika, (eds.), The Qur'ān in context: historical and literary investigations into the Qur'ānic milieu. Leiden: Brill, pp. 615-623.
Sundermann, Werner, Hintze, Almut and De Blois, Francois (2009) 'Nicholas Sims-Williams.' In: Sundermann, Werner, (ed.), Exegisti monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, xiii-xxiv.
De Blois, Francois (2009) 'A Sasanian silver bowl.' In: Sundermann, Werner and Sims-Williams, Nicholas, (eds.), Exegisti monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 13-16.
Hunter, Erica C D (2009) 'A Jewish Inscription from Jam, Afghanistan.' In: Sundermann, Werner, Hintze, Almut and De Blois, Francois, (eds.), Exegisti monumenta: Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 191-196. (Iranica, Band 17)
De Blois, Francois (2009) 'On the sources of the Barlaam Romance.' In: Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond, Reck, Christiane and Weber, Dieter, (eds.), Literarische Stoffe und ihre Gestaltung in mitteliranischer Zeit: Kolloquium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Werner Sundermann. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, pp. 7-26.
De Blois, Francois (2009) 'Pre-Islamic Iranian and Indian influences on Persian literature.' In: de Bruijn, J.T.P., (ed.), General introduction to Persian literature. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 333-344.
De Blois, Francois (2008) 'Translation in the ancient Iranian world.' In: Kittel, Harald, (ed.), Übersetzung - Translation - Traduction, Volume 2. Berlin; New York: Walter de gruyter, pp. 1194-1198.
De Blois, Francois (2007) 'Lunisolar calendars in ancient Iran.' In: Panaino, Antonio and Piras, Andrea, (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th congress of the Societas Iranologica Europaea. Milan: Mimesis, pp. 39-52.
De Blois, Francois (2007) 'Some Arabic and Persian works on Quranic sciences in two early manuscripts.' In: Afshar, Iraj, (ed.), In Memory of Muhammad Qazvini. Tehran: Bonyâd-e mowqufât-e doctor, pp. 278-384.
De Blois, Francois (2007) 'The name of the Black Sea.' In: Macuch, Maria, Maggi, Mauro and Sundermann, Werner, (eds.), Iranian languages and texts from Iran and Turan : Ronald E. Emmerick memorial volume. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 1-8.
De Blois, Francois (2007) 'The two Zoroastrian treatises called ‘Ulama i Islam’.' In: Vahman, F. and Pedersen, Claus, (eds.), Religious texts in Iranian languages. København: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, pp. 199-210.
Sims-Williams, Nicholas and De Blois, Francois (2006) 'The Bactrian calendar: new material and new suggestions.' In: Weber, Dieter, (ed.), Languages of Iran: past and present. Iranian studies in memoriam David Neil MacKenzie. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 185-196.
Hunter, Erica C D (2006) 'Theodore bar Koni’s Historical and Cosmogonic passages on the Manichaeans.' In: De Blois, Francois and Sims-Williams, Nicholas, (eds.), Dictionary of Manichaean Texts. Vol.II. From Iraq and Iran (Texts in Syriac, Arabic, Persian and Zoroastrian Middle Persian). Leiden: Brepols. (Corpus fontium manichaeorum. Subsidia ; 2)
De Blois, Francois (2005) 'New light on the sources of the Manichaean chapter in the Fihrist.' In: van Tongerloo, Aloïs, (ed.), Il Manicheismo : nuove prospettive della richerca ; Quinto Congresso Internazionale di Studi sul Manicheismo ; atti ; Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici, Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Napoli, 2 - 8 settembre 2001. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 37-45.
De Blois, Francois (2004) 'A Zoroastrian apocalypse.' In: Cereti, Carlo G., Melasecchi, Beniamino and Vajifdar, Farrokh, (eds.), Varia Iranica. Rome: Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, pp. 59-72. (Orientalia Romana, 7)
De Blois, Francois (2003) '‘Manes’ twin in Iranian and non-Iranian sources.' In: Cereti, Carlo G., Maggi, Mauro, Provasi, Elio and Gnoli, Gherardo, (eds.), Religious themes and texts of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia : studies in honour of Professor Gherardo Gnoli on the occasion of his 65th birthday on 6th December 2002. Wiesbaden: Reichert, pp. 7-16.
De Blois, Francois (2003) 'Pahr(ag)bed.' In: van Tongerloo, Aloïs, (ed.), Iranica selecta. Studies in honour of Professor Wojciech Skalmowski on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 37-40.
De Blois, Francois (2003) 'The reform of the Zoroastrian calendar in the year 375 of Yazdgird.' In: Cereti, Carlo G. and Vajifdar, Farrokh, (eds.), Āta-̧e dorun, the fire within : Jamshid Soroush Soroushian commemorative volume. New York: 1st Books Library, pp. 139-145. (Jamshid Soroush Soroushian Memorial Volume, II)
De Blois, Francois (2001) 'The Turfan fragment M 28 I.' In: Sadiqi, A.A., (ed.), Tafazzoli memorial volume = Yādnāma-i Duktur Aḥmad Tafaḍḍulī. Tehran: Sokhan Publ., pp. 9-15.
De Blois, Francois (2000) 'The Manichaean daily prayers.' In: Emmerick, Ronald E., Sundermann, Werner and Zieme, Peter, (eds.), Studia Manichaica IV. Internationaler Kongreß zum Manichäismus, Berlin, 14.-18. Juli 1997. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, pp. 49-54. (Berichte und Abhandlungen / Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Sonderband, 4)
De Blois, Francois (2000) 'A Persian poem lamenting the Arab conquest.' In: Netton, Ian Richard, (ed.), Studies in honour of Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Vol. 2. Leiden; Boston: Brill, pp. 82-95.
De Blois, Francois (1998) 'Addendum [translation of and commentary on the beginning of book III of al-Bayruni’s al-Qanun al-Mas‘udi].' In: Panaino, Antonio, (ed.), Tessere il cielo : considerazioni sulle tavole astronomiche, gli oroscopi e la dottrina dei legamenti tra induismo, zoroastrismo, manicheismo e mandeismo. Rome: Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, pp. 155-157. (Serie orientale Roma, v. 79)
De Blois, Francois (1998) 'Gahshumari i parsi.' In: Akrami, Musa, (ed.), Bīrashknāmah. Tihrān: Markaz-i Chāp va Intishārāt-i Dānishgāh-i Shahīd Bihishtī, pp. 397-413. (Intishārāt-i Dānishgāh-i Shahīd Bihishtī, 277)
De Blois, Francois (1998) 'The Iftikhariyan of Qazvin.' In: Eslami, Kambiz, (ed.), Iran and Iranian studies Essays in honor of Iraj Afshar. Princeton, N.J.: Zagros, pp. 13-23.
De Blois, Francois (1996) 'A bilingual poem by Hafiz.' In: Bernardini, M., (ed.), La civiltà timuride come fenomeno internazionale. Roma: Istituto per l'oriente C.A. Nallino, pp. 379-384. (Oriente moderno., Nuova serie, no 2)
De Blois, Francois (1993) 'Middle-Persian funerary inscriptions from South-Western Iran.' In: Skalmowski, Wojciech and van Tongerloo, Aloïs, (eds.), Medioiranica: proceedings of the International Colloquium organized by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from the 21st to the 23rd of May 1990. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters en Departement Orientalistiek, pp. 29-43. (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, 48)
De Blois, Francois (1991) 'The Pañcatantra: From India to the West, and back.' In: Grube, E.J., (ed.), A mirror for princes from India : illustrated versions of the Kalilah wa Dimnah, Anvar-i Suhayli, Iyar-i Danish, and Humayun Nameh. Bombay: Marg Publications, pp. 10-15.
Journal Article
De Blois, Francois (2006) 'Du nouveau sur la chronologie bactrienne post-hellénistique: l’ère de 223 ap. J.-C.' Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 150 (2). pp. 991-997.
De Blois, Francois (2004) 'Elchasai - Manes - Muhammad. Manichäismus und Islam in religionshistorischem Vergleich.' Der Islam, 81 (1). pp. 31-48.
De Blois, Francois (2004) 'Naqd-i bar kitab i qira’at i arami i suryani i qur’an [Persian translation of the preceding by Murdaza Karimi Niya].' Tarjumān-e waḥy: a biannual journal of The Centre for Translation of the Holy Qur'ān, 7 (2).
De Blois, Francois (2004) 'Quran IX:37 and CIH 547.' Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 34. pp. 101-104.
De Blois, Francois (2004) 'Thanawiyyat dar sunat i irani u masihi [Persian translation of the preceding by Ahmad Qa’im-i-Maqami].' Nama i parsi, 9 (1). pp. 99-126.
De Blois, Francois (2003) 'The Dictionary of Manichaean Texts (Arabic section): a report on work in progress.' Manichaean studies newsletter (18). pp. 23-24.
De Blois, Francois (2003) 'Review of 'Iranian Manichaean Turfan Texts in Publications since 1934' by Dieter Weber.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 13 (1). pp. 117-118.
De Blois, Francois (2002) 'Naṣrānī (Ναζωραȋος) and ḥanīf (ἐθνικός): Studies on the Religious Vocabulary of Christianity and of Islam.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 65 (1). pp. 1-30.
De Blois, Francois (2000) 'Dualism in Iranian and Christian Traditions.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 10 (1). pp. 1-19.
De Blois, Francois (1999) 'Hijaratun min sijjil.' Acta Orientalia, LX. pp. 82-95.
De Blois, Francois and Sims-Williams, Nicholas (1998) 'The Bactrian calendar.' Bulletin of the Asia Institute. New series (10). pp. 149-165.
De Blois, Francois (1998) 'The month and its divisions in ancient South Arabia.' Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 28. pp. 15-20.
De Blois, Francois (1996) 'Gah (ja) wa gah (taxt) dar zaban i farsi [Persian translation of the preceding, by H.R. Bagh-Bidi].' Namah i Farhangistan, 2 (1). pp. 71-83.
De Blois, Francois (1996) 'The Persian Calendar.' Iran: The Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 34. pp. 39-54.
De Blois, Francois (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.
De Blois, Francois (1995) '"Place" and "Throne" in Persian.' Iran: The Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 33. pp. 61-65.
De Blois, Francois (1995) 'The “Sabians” (sabi’un) in Pre-Islamic Arabia.' Acta Orientalia, 56. pp. 39-61.
De Blois, Francois (1995) 'Who is King Amaro?' Arabian archaeology and epigraphy, 6 (1). pp. 196-198.
De Blois, Francois (1994) 'Elamite survivals in Western Iranian.' Studia Iranica Mesopotamica et Anatolica, 1. pp. 13-19.
De Blois, Francois (1993) 'Two Sources of the Handarz of Ōšnar.' Iran: The Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 31. pp. 95-97.
De Blois, Francois (1993) 'The “four great kingdoms” in the Manichaean Kephalaia.' Bibliotheca Nubica, III. pp. 221-230.
De Blois, Francois (1993) 'A tomb made of horses’ hooves.' Bulletin of the Asia Institute. New series (7). pp. 31-34.
De Blois, Francois (1990) 'C. A. Storey's "Persian Literature": An Interim Report.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 122 (2). pp. 370-375.
De Blois, Francois (1990) 'The Middle-Persian inscription from Constantinople: Sasanian or post-Sasanian?' Studia Iranica, 19 (2). pp. 209-218.
De Blois, Francois (1990) 'The date of the "martyrs of Nagran".' Arabian archaeology and epigraphy, 1 (2/3). pp. 110-128.
De Blois, Francois (1989) 'Maka and Mazun.' Studia Iranica, XVIII. pp. 157-167.
De Blois, Francois (1987) '‘Abu Tahir’s Epistle to the Caliph Al-Muqtadir: Studies on the history of Bahrayn and the Yemen.' Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 17. pp. 21-35.
De Blois, Francois (1986) 'The ’Abu Sa‘idis or so-called "Qarmatians" of Bahrayn.' Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 16. pp. 13-21.
De Blois, Francois (1985) '"Freemen" and "Nobles" in Iranian and Semitic Languages.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 117 (1). pp. 5-15.
De Blois, Francois (1985) 'Reviews of E. Wagner, Harari-Texte in arabischer Schrift; C. Sumner, Sagesse éthiopienne; S. Uhlig, Hiob Ludolfs Theologica Aethiopica; E. Hammerschmidt and V. Six, Aethiopische Handschriften.' Die Welt des Orients, 16. pp. 181-189.
De Blois, Francois (1984) 'The Admonitions of Ādurbād and Their Relationship to the Aḥīqar Legend.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 116 (1). pp. 41-53.
De Blois, Francois (1984) 'Clan-names in ancient Ethiopia.' Die Welt des Orients, 15. pp. 123-125.
De Blois, Francois (1984) 'Laylat al-mashush: Marginalia to al-Bayruni, Abu Nuwas, and other authors.' Journal of Semitic Studies, 29 (1). pp. 81-96.
De Blois, Francois (1984) 'The oldest known Fatimid manuscript from Yemen.' Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 14. pp. 1-7.
Hamdani, Abbas and De Blois, Francois (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.
Book Reviews
De Blois, Francois (2003) 'Review of “Christoph Luxenberg”, Die syro-aramäische Lesart des Koran.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 5 . pp. 92-97.
De Blois, Francois (2001) 'Review of 'Islam. A very short introduction. By Malise Ruthven', 'The Koran. A very short introduction. By Michael Cook', and 'The Bible. A very short introduction. By John Riches.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 11 (2). pp. 253-324.
De Blois, Francois (2000) 'Review of 'An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Volume I' by Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Mehdi Aminrazavi.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 10 (2). pp. 247-249.
De Blois, Francois (2000) 'Review of 'Iranica Diversa' by David Neil MacKenzie; Carlo G. Cereti; Ludwig Paul.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 10 (3). p. 392.
De Blois, Francois (2000) 'Review of 'Philologica, Beiträge zur Arabistik und Semitistik' by Anton Spitaler; Hartmut Bobzin.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 10 (1). pp. 101-102.
De Blois, Francois (2000) 'Review of 'Proceedings of the Arabic and Islamic Sections of the 35th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS) Part One' by Kinga Dévényi; Tamás Iványi.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 10 (2). pp. 239-241.
De Blois, Francois (2000) 'Review of 'The Quest for the Historical Muhammad' by Ibn Warraq.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 10 (3). p. 384.
De Blois, Francois (2000) 'Review of The Origins of the "Koran". Classic Essays on Islam's Holy Book by Ibn Warraq.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 10 (1). p. 88.
De Blois, Francois (1999) 'Review of 'Dictionary of Manichaean Texts. Vol. I. Texts from the Roman Empire (Texts in Syriac, Greek, Coptic and Latin)' by Sarah Clackson; Erica Hunter; Samuel N. C. Lieu.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 9 (3). pp. 438-440.
De Blois, Francois (1999) 'Review of 'Studies in the Vocabulary of Khotanese III' by R. E. Emmerick; P. O. Skjærvø.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 9 (1). pp. 160-161.
De Blois, Francois (1999) 'Review of 'The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XVII. The First Civil War' by G. R. Hawting.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 9 (3). p. 434.
De Blois, Francois (1999) 'Review of Atti del terzo congresso internazionale di studi "Manicheismo e oriente cristiano antico", Arcavacata di Rende - Amantea, 31 agosto-5 settembre 1993 by Luigi Cirillo; Alois van Tongerloo.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 9 (3). pp. 441-442.
De Blois, Francois (1998) 'Review of 'Die Natur in der Bildersprache des Šāhnāme' by Jürgen Ehlers.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 8 (3). pp. 450-451.
De Blois, Francois (1998) 'Review of 'Iranian Manichaean Turfan Texts in Early Publications (1904-1934)' by Werner Sundermann.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 8 (3). pp. 481-485.
De Blois, Francois (1998) 'Review of 'Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings' by Olga M. Davidson.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 8 (2). pp. 269-270.
De Blois, Francois (1998) 'Review of 'The Epic of Gilgamesh by Sumaya Shabandar'.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 8 (3). p. 450.
De Blois, Francois (1993) 'Review of 'Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part III: Pahlavi Inscriptions. Vol. IV. Ostraca and Vol. V. Papyri. Texts I: Ostraca, Papyri und Pergamente: Textband by Dieter Weber'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 56 (2). pp. 377-378.
De Blois, Francois (1993) 'Review of Ronald E. Emmerick and Dieter Weber (ed.): 'Corolla Iranica: Papers in honour of Prof. Dr. David Neil MacKenzie on the occasion of his 65th birthday on April 8th, 1991'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 56 (2). pp. 376-377.
De Blois, Francois (1992) 'Review of 'Iranica Varia. Papers in Honor of Professor Ehsan Yarshater' by D. Amin; M. Kasheff; A. Sh. Shahbazi.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2 (3). pp. 454-456.
De Blois, Francois (1992) 'Review of W. Hinz and H. Koch, 'Elamisches Wörterbuch'.' Bibliotheca Orientalis, XLIX . pp. 195-197.
De Blois, Francois (1990) 'Review of 'Zur Problematik einiger handschriftlicher Quellen des neupersischen Namenbuches' by Nostratollah Rastegar.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 122 (1). p. 172.
De Blois, Francois (1988) 'Review of 'Apocalypses et voyages dans l'au-delà' by C. Kappler.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 120 (2). p. 394.
De Blois, Francois (1988) 'Review of Transition Periods in Iranian History. Actes du Symposium de Fribourg-en-Brisgau (22-24 mai 1985) The Societas Iranologica Europea.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 120 (2). pp. 411-414.
De Blois, Francois (1985) 'Review of Middle Iranian Studies: Proceedings of the International Review of 'Symposium Organized by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from the 17th to the 20th of May 1982' by W. Skalmowski; A. van Tongerloo.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 117 (1). pp. 72-73.
Other
De Blois, Francois (2007) 'Islam in its Arabian Context.' www.orientalistics.com.
De Blois, Francois (2006) 'Achievements and limitations of scientific thinking in the mediaeval Islamic world.' www.orientalistics.com.