Asnad.org Website Review

AN IMAGE DATABASE OF PERSIAN HISTORICAL DOCU*ENTS FROM IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA UP TO THE 20TH CENTURY. The Project aims at facilitating access to the growing number of available Persian historical deeds and docu*ents, both published and unpublished. It shall allow work on archival material with the help of incorporated facsimiles without recourse to the original - often The Database includes public and private docu*ents: royal decrees and orders, official correspondence, and shari'a court docu*ents, such as contracts of sale and lease, vaqf deeds, marriage contracts, and court orders. It also serves as a bibliographic reference tool, being a continually updated repertoire of published historical docu*ents. A Research Project of the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg. NEW: Under the auspices of the European Research Council (ERC) project LAWFORMS University of Exeter, Asnad.org will see a major re-launch in 2019 and become An Image Database of Persian Historical Docu*ents from Iran,