Malek Iradj Mochiri

“Religion disperses like a fog, kingdoms perish, but the works of scholars remain for an eternity”. (Ulugh Beg - 1394-1449) Ulugh Beg

Obituary of Malek Iradj Mochiri (1927–2015) by Ehsan Shavarebi (http://sites.uci.edu/dabirjournal/files/2016/08/14-Ehsan-Shavarebi.pdf)

Malek Iradj Mochiri was born in Tehran on 23 January 1927. His father, General Hassan Mochiri, was a direct descendant of the sister of Jafar Khan Moshir Dowleh whose parents were Mirza Mohammad Taghi Vazir Hosseini from Farahan and the daughter of Mirza Bozorg Issa Farahani Ghaem Magham I. Mirza BOZORG Issa Farahani GHAEM MAGHAM 1, *

Through his mother, Dr Mochiri was a direct descendant of the first Etemad Saltaneh : Haj Ali Khan Hajeb e Dowleh Etemad Saltaneh 1st - Haj Ali Khan Moghadam Maraghei HAJEB ol DOWLEH
and further up, according to Hassan Khan Etemad Saltaneh II, he was a descendant of Berdi Beg bin Aureng bin Jochi bin Chengiz Khan. [i.e. 7-generations-to-Berdi-Bek-bin-Aureng-bin-Jochi-bin-Chengiz/6000000188012475880] (undocumented).

Dr Malek Iradj Mochiri finished his secondary education at Dār-al-Fonun high school in Tehran in 1946. After receiving the Certificat d'Études Physiques, Chimiques et Biologiques (PCB) from the Université Paris-Sorbonne, he started his medical studies at the École de Médecine in Paris. From 1954 to 1959, Mochiri was an intern in hospitals of the Parisian region.

In 1959, he received his doctorate degree in orthopaedic medicine. He also achieved the membership of the Société Française d’Orthopédie et de Traumatologie. After almost 15 years of living in Paris, he returned to Tehran and began his work as the chief of Aria Clinic in 1962. Four years later, Mochiri became lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tehran.

As surgeon he also worked at Amir Alam and Razi hospitals. He departed again for France at the beginning of 1980s. In 1989, he returned to Tehran, where he continued his work at Aria Clinic until 1992. From 1992 up to his decease in 2015 he was living in Paris.

During his stay in Paris, Mochiri found the opportunity to get access to the works of European scholars on the history of ancient Iran. His knowledge on the Persian and Arabic sources of the Sasanian history helped him, as well, to concentrate on certain topics of the Late and Post-Sasanian numismatics. As a coin and seal collector, he also had the chance to study the original materials surviving from the Sasanian and Early Islamic periods.

In his first publication entitled Étude de numismatique iranienne sous les Sassanides (Tehran 1972), for the first time he introduced a silver drachm of Queen Azarmidukht and with this important discovery established his status among the numismatists . This book was followed by a second volume entitled Étude de numismatique iranienne sous les Sassanides et Arab-Sassanides (Tehran 1977; revised: Louvain 1983), prefaced by A.D.H. Bivar, which became an important source for the study of the Late Sasanian and Arab-Sasanian coinage, because of Mochiri’s endeavour in reattributing certain Sasanian mint-abbreviations which were mentioned on the 6th-8th centuries’ coins. His collaboration with the National Museum of Iran (muze-ye irān-e bāstān) in Tehran, as well as a number of Iranian and European coin collectors enriched his database for this volume. At the same time in 1970s and in collaboration with Philippe Gignoux and Rika Gyselen he published a catalogue of his private collection of Sasanian seals. Later in 1980s, he compiled an English monograph on Arab-Sasanian Civil War Coinage (Louvain 1986; reprinted: 2008). His astonishing attention to the iconographical and palaeographical details of coins is obviously observable not only in the volumes of Étude de numismatique iranienne and his latter monograph, but also in the papers he contributed in French, English and Persian for a variety of international numismatic and historical journals.

In the afternoon of Tuesday, 21 April 2015, Malek Iradj Mochiri passed away in the hospice of Cognacq G hospital in Paris.
His memory will never be forgotten and his scholarly works will always remain helpful for the scholars and students of Sasanian numismatics.

When in the hospice, it was suggested getting him a more confortable pair of pillows and he declined with a smile, speaking his very last words "Majesté, aurevoir."

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List of Publications of M.I. Mochiri
Abbreviations
BAI = Bulletin of the Asia Institute (Iowa State University Press/Ames) Iran = Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies (London) JA = Journal Asiatique (Paris) JRAS = Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (London) NAFIB = Nashriye-ye Anjoman-e Farhang-e Irān-e Bāstān (Tehran) NIB = Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān (Tehran) NC = The Numismatic Chronicle (London) ONSN = Oriental Numismatic Society Newsletter (Croydon, Surrey) SI = Studia Iranica (Paris)

Étude de numismatique iranienne sous les Sassanides, tome I (Téhéran, 1972), 59 pp; reviewed by N.M. Lowick in NC [133] (1973), pp. 238–239.

‘Sekkeh-hā-ye Sāsāni’, NAFIB 12 (1974), pp. 33–51.

‘Zarrābxānehā-ye Irān dar dowrān-e Sāsāni’, NAFIB 12 (1974), pp. 58–92.

Étude de numismatique iranienne sous les Sassanides et Arabe-Sassanides, tome II (Téhéran, 1977), 524 pp. and 1559 figures; reviewed by R. Curiel and R. Gyselen in JA 271 (1982), pp. 415–426; revised edition (Louvain, 1983); reviewed by S. Tyler-Smith in NC 143 (1983), pp. 240–247

‘A Pahlavi Forerunner of the Umayyad Reformed Coinage’, JRAS (1981), pp. 168–172.

‘A Sasanian-Style Coin of Yazīd b. Mucāwīya’, JRAS (1982), pp. 137–148.

‘Deux monnaies de « Šāpuhr » au type de Kavād I’, SI 12 (1983), pp. 239–242.

‘A Coin of Khusraw III’s Third Year’, NC 143 (1983), pp. 221–223.

‘Garmkirmān: a Sasanian and Early Islamic Mint in Kirmān Province’, NC 145 (1985), pp. 109–122.

‘A propos d’une médaille d’or de la reine Bōrān’, SI 14 (1985), pp. 241–243.

Arab-Sasanian Civil War Coinage (Louvain, 1986), 127 pp. and 125 figures; reviewed by R. Gyselen in SI 18 (1989), pp. 142–144; reprinted (2008).

‘Événements historiques, localisations géographiques et indice chronologique attestés par les monnaies de Shāpūr II’, Iran 27 (1989), pp. 39–49.

‘Titulature de Shāpūr II’, Iran 28 (1990), pp. 13–22

‘L’émission monétaire inédite d’un rebelle en AH 350’, BAI 4 (1990), pp. 133–137.

‘Petite liste de quelques ateliers sassanides inédits’, Iran 34 (1996), pp. 61–78.

‘The Mint of Baghshur’, ONSN 152 (1997), pp. 5–6.

‘Réemploi de coins des monnaies sassanides’, NC 158 (1998), pp. 103–111.

‘The Mint Signature of the Mint Place of Yazd’, ONSN 155 (1998), pp. 10–11.

‘Une suite aux ateliers de Perside’, Iran 36 (1998), pp. 77–84.

‘Les monnaies de Kavād I à double effigie’, in N. Sims-Williams (ed.), Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies (Wiesbaden, 1998), pp. 45–54 [Presented at the conference held in Cambridge, 11–15 September 1995].

‘Notice Concerning Some Rare Sasanian Coins’, ONSN 159 (1999), p. 7.

‘Kirman, terre de turbulence’, Iran 38 (2000), pp. 33–48 [Presented at the conference held in Paris: Quatrième Conférence Européenne d’Etudes Iraniennes, 6–10 September 1999].

‘Images symboliques des Yazīdīya sur les monnaies Arabo-Sassanides’, NIB 5 (2003), pp. 15–28. [Presented at the conference held in Ravenna: V European Conference of Iranian Studies, 6–11 October 2003].

‘Foundation of Veh-az-Amid-Kavād’, ONSN 182 (2005), pp. 6–7.

‘Monnayage arabo-sassanide de Dārābgird’, NIB 9-10 (2005-2006), pp. 33–61.

‘Dirhams of Al-Hajjāj b. Yūsuf from Dārābgird’, ONSN 191 (2007), pp. 5–6.

‘Une monnaie de Khusraw I de l’atelier de Samarcande’, in Ph. Gignoux, Ch. Jullien, F. Jullien (eds.), Trésors d’Orient. Mélanges offerts à Rika Gyselen [Studia Iranica. Cahier 42] (Paris, 2009), pp. 237–244.

‘Shīrāz éternelle’, in C.G. Cereti et al. (eds.), Iranian Identity in the Course of History [Orientalia Romana 9] (Rome, 2010), pp. 213–226 [Presented at the conference held in Rome, 21–24 September 2005].

‘Monnaies dites de ‘Khusraw IV’’, in R. Gyselen (ed.), Sources for the History pf Sasanian and Post Sasanian Iran [Res Orientales XIX] (Bures-sur-Yvette, 2010), pp. 177–199.

‘Monnayage de Khusraw III’, in R. Gyselen (ed.), Objets et documents inscrits en Pārsīg [Res Orientales XXI] (Bures-sur-Yvette, 2012), pp. 179–214.

Malek Iradj Mochiri est egalement l'auteur des livres et articles suivants (cette liste n'est pas exhaustive) : http://bit.ly/1RJONkO

- Letter, 1982 Dec. 5, New Hope, Pa., to Malek Iradj Mochiri, Paris / William B. Warden. by Warden, William B; Mochiri, M. I.

- The mint of Baghshur / M.I. Mochiri.

- The mint signature of the mint place of Yazd / by M.I. Mochiri.

- Réemploi de coins des monnaies sassanides / M.I. Mochiri.

- Foundation of Veh-az-Amid-Kavad / by M.I. Mochiri.

- Dirhams of Al-Hajjaj B. Yusuf from Darabgird : a new specimen / by M.I. Mochiri.

- Images symboliques des Yazidiya sur les monnaies Arabo-Sassanides / M. I. Mochiri

- Arab-Sasanian Civil War coinage : Manichaeans Yazidiya and other Khawarij / by Malek Iradj Mochiri ; translated from the French by J. L. Avril and Françoise Graves. by Mochiri, Malek Iradj. ISBN 10: 9649922865 / ISBN 13: 9789649922867 - Published by Pazineh, 2010

- A coin of Khusraw III's third year. by Mochiri, M. I.
- Monnaies dites de 'Khusraw IV' - article dans "Sources for the History of Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Iran: 19 (Res Orientales)

- A Pahlavi forerunner of the Umayyad reformed coinage. by Mochiri, Malek Iradj. - Royal Asiatic Society, 1981

- A Sasanian-style coin of Yazid b. Mu'āwiya. by Mochiri, Malek Iradj.

- Garmkirman : a Sasanian and early Islamic mint in Kirman province. by Mochiri, M. I.

- Deux monnaies de "Sapuhr" au type de Kavad I. by Mochiri, M. I.

- Titulature de Shāpūr II. by Mochiri, M. I.

- Petite liste de quelques ateliers Sasanides inédits. by Mochiri, M. I.

- Études de numismatique irannienne sous les Sassanides. Tome I. by Mochiri, Malek Iradj.

- A Propos d'une médaille d'or de la reine Boran. by Mochiri, M. I.

- Evénéments historiques, localisations géographiques et indice chronologique attestés par les monnaies de Shāpūr II. by Mochiri, Malek Iradj.

- Kirman, terre de turbulence. by Mochiri, Malek Iradj.

- Petite liste de quelques ateliers Sasanides inédits. by Mochiri, M. I.

- Étude de numismatique irannienne sous les Sassanides et Arabe-Sassannides. Tome II. by Mochiri, Malek Iradj.

- Sasanian mint abbreviations. by Tyler-Smith, S; Mochiri, M. I.

- Arab-Sasanian Civil War Coinage; Manichaeans, Yazidiya and Other Khawarij. "Sekehhaye Dowreye Jang Dakheliy Arab - Sassani" Farsi Edition by Malek Iradj Mochiri and Mahdieh Dastmalchi

Items available: American Numismatic Society

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دکتر ملک ايرج مشيري پدر سکه شناسي ساساني در ايران- دکتر مشيري در سال 1305 در تهران به دنيا آمده است و تخصص جراحي ارتوپدي از پاريس داشت. وي در کنار پزشکي به گردآوري و پژوهش در زمينه سکه هاي ايراني پرداخته و داراي چند کتاب و تعداد زيادي مقاله در زمينه سکه هاي ساساني و عرب ساساني ميبود. ايشان براي نخستين بار سکه هاي آزرميندخت،هرمز ناشناس(پنجم) سکه مالک بن اوس وچند شخصيت ديگر را معرفي نمودند و علاوه بر اين تعداد زيادي از ضرابخانه هاي ايران در دوره ساساني و اوايل اسلامي را شناسائي کرده اند.بويژه ضرابخانه هاي کرمان و خراسان بزرگ.

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ملک ايرج مشيري پدر سکه شناسي ساساني در ايران- دکتر مشيري در سال 1305 در تهران به دنيا آمده است و تخصص جراحي ارتوپدي از پاريس دارد.وي در کنار پزشکي به گردآوري و پژوهش در زمينه سکه هاي ايراني پرداخته و داراي چند کتاب و تعداد زيادي مقاله در زمينه سکه هاي ساساني و عرب ساساني ميباشد.ايشان براي نخستين بار سکه هاي آزرميندخت،هرمز ناشناس(پنجم) سکه مالک بن اوس وچند شخصيت ديگر را معرفي نمودند و علاوه بر اين تعداد زيادي از ضرابخانه هاي ايران در دوره ساساني و اوايل اسلامي را شناسائي کرده اند.بويژه ضرابخانه هاي کرمان و خراسان بزرگ.

متخصص جراحی استخوان ومفاصل

دکتر ملک ايرج مشيري از پژوهشگران برجسته در زمينه تاريخ و سکه شناسي ايران است که وي توانسته است سکه هاي موسوم به جنگ داخلي و زمينههاي سياسي، ديني، ناريخي، ضرب سکه هاي اين دوره به نتايج تازه اي پيرامون شصت سال پس از حضور اعراب به ايران دست يابد. گذشته بر اين نامبرده با گروه بندي دقيق و نوآورانه سکه هاي موسوم به جنگ داخلي را براي علاقمندان تاريخ و سکه شناسي روشن کرده اند که در نوع خود کم نظير است. خانم مهديه سادات دستمالچي برگردان اين مجموعه را عهدهدار بوده است.