Iranian Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Iranian Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Race, Slavery and Domesticity in Late Qajar Chronicles12
New Histories for the Age of Speed: The Archaeological–Architectural Past in Interwar Afghanistan and Iran3
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s New Population Policy and Recent Changes in Fertility3
Completing the Persianate Turn3
Dialogues with the Dead: Necropoetics of Zahra’s Paradise3
Judeo-Hamadani: The Language of Jews in Hamadan and Its Origins2
Women Reclaiming Their Voices for Life and Freedom: Music and the 2022 Uprising in Iran2
From Dengbêj to Modern Writer: Heritagization of the Kurdish Oral Tradition and Revitalization of the Kurdish Language in the Works of Mehmed Uzun and Mehmet Dicle2
The Inception of Literary Criticism in Early Modern Pashto Writings2
The Family Business in Iran since the Islamic Revolution as a Mode of Coordination2
Major and Minor Turkic Language Islands in Iran with a Special Focus on Khalaj2
From Ethnic Nationalism to Cosmopolitan Mysticism: The Life and Works of Hossein Kazemzadeh Iranshahr (1884–1962)2
Sedigheh Vasmaghi: A new voice of Iranian religious reformism2
“Rich Fields in Persia”: Parsi Capital and the Origins of Economic Development in Pahlavi Iran, 1925–19412
Ibn al-Malāḥimī on Zoroastrianism2
The Allure of Untranslatability: Shafiʿi-Kadkani and (Not) Translating Persian Poetry2
Iran Protests and Patterns of State Repression2
Persianate Pasts; National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century2
TheQalandarKing: Early Development of theQalandariyyātand Saljuq Conceptions of Kingship in Amir Moʿezzi's Panegyric for Sharafshāh Jaʿfari1
Women, Art, and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora, Mehraneh Ebrahimi, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse1
The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia, Robert Haug, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2019, The Early and Medieval Islamic World, ISBN 978-1-781
Translation of the Words of ʿAli b. Abi Tālib in Early Fourteenth-Century Iran: A Local Bilingual Network1
From Quasi-Vegetarians to Quasi-Carnivores: The Changing Diet of Iranians1
France among the Most-Favored Nations: The French Commercial Policy and Influence in Iran (1815–48)1
IRN volume 55 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Jāmī, a Legend in China: A Study of the Transmission and Transformation of Jāmī’s Texts in China1
The Foreign Trade of Tabriz: 1800-19001
Disciplining Persian Literature in Twentieth-Century Afghanistan1
Intertextuality and Subversion: Nezāmi in Modern Persian Literature1
Jan Lucasz. van Hasselt: A Dutch Painter in Safavid Isfahan1
Political Convergence, Surpluses of Activism, and Genealogy: Examining Iran's Quasi-Revolutionary Situation1
Power and Philanthropy: The Imperial Dimensions of Parsi Amelioration of the Iranian Zoroastrians1
Ilkhanid Wood Carvings in the Mountain Villages between Kashan and Natanz1
The Keur Farah Pahlavi Project and Iranian-Senegalese Relations in the 1970s1
Conflicting Worldviews: Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsāʾī’s Risālat al-Rashtīyah and the Problematic of Akbarīan Mysticism1
A History of Style and a Style of History: The Hermeneutic of Tarz in Persian Literary Criticism1
The Afghan Bachah and its Discontents: An Introductory History1
Soundwaves of Dissent: Resistance Through Persianate Cultural Production in Afghanistan1
Meysam Safarchi, Tejārisāzi va masrafgarāyi: tahavvol-e fazā va farhang-e shahri dar Tehran [Commercialization and Consumerism: Transformation of Urban Space and Culture in Tehran] (Tehran, Ira1
An Oasis of Radicalism: The Labor Movement in Abadan in the 1940s1
The Perside Language of Shiraz Jewry: A Historical-Comparative Phonology1
The Origins of Dabestān: Mīrzā Ḥasan Rushdīyeh and the Quest for New Education1
Distinction and Survival: Zoroastrians, Religious Nationalism, and Cultural Ownership in Shiʿi Iran1
Observing Iran from Baku: Iranian Studies in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan1
Revolt with a Revolutionary Perspective1
Structures in Crisis: A Narrative Approach to Asghar Farhadi’s Films1
Balanced Bilingualism: Patterns of Contact Influence in L1 and L2 Turkic and Bakhtiari Speech in Juneqan, Iran1
Female Bodies and Sexuality in Iran and the Search for Defiance, Sharifi Nafiseh, New York: P1
Ismāʿīl al-Qasṛī, Kubrawiyya, and Sufi Genealogies: “Deep-Dark Transmissions” in Medieval Iran1
Transcendence between Expression and Secrecy: A Critical Cognitive Perspective on the Metaphorical Discourse of Yārsān Religion1
Definiteness Marking from Evaluative Morphology in Balochi: Internal Variation and Diachronic Pathway1
A Georgian Language Island in Iran: Fereydani Georgian1
Telling a Different Story: Redeployment of the Narrative Alexander Tradition in a Medieval PersianDāstān1
A Soviet View on the Assassination of the Iranian Prime Minister, Haj ʻAli Razmara, in the Context of the Early Years of the Cold War1
Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran. Hussein Banai (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 174 pp. Hardcover $99.99. ISBN 97811084955920
Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies: Essays in Memory of Hossein Ziai, Ali Gheissari, J0
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Onomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran. Houchang E. Chehabi (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020). Pp. 109. $17.95. ISBN 9780674248199.0
Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History, Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-108-41851-5 (hbk), xv + 303 pp.0
ReFocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad. Maryam Ghorbankarimi (ed.) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). ISBN 978-1474477635 (eBook), 265 pp.0
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Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond G. J. Breyley and Sasan Fatemi. London: Routledge, 2016. 202 pp., ISBN: 9780815358084 pbk, 9780415575126 hbk0
Falling Out of Love with the Franks: The Life and Writings of an Armenian Catholic Diplomat in the Service of Late Safavid Persia0
“Don't Let the Boats Pass!” Neo-Elamite Grain Procurement in Times of Famine and Drought0
Feeding Iran: Shi'i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic. Rose Wellman (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021). Pp. 262. $34.95. ISBN 97805203768780
A Political Prosopography of the Islamic Republic - Postrevolutionary Iran: A Handbook, Boroujerdi Mehrzad and Rahimkhani Kourosh, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-8150
The Guide to Knowledge: The Journal Rahbar-i Dānish and Its Role in Creating a Soviet Tajik Literature (1927–1932)0
Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin before Nationalism. Mana Kia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 336. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036119550
Writing Capitalism into Iran: A Roundtable Discussion0
Under the Waves: The Many Lives of Moniru Ravanipur's The Drowned0
Shadow Performance in Iran0
Farvi: An Iranian Language in Kavir Desert0
The Hero of “the Noble Afshar People”: Reconsidering Nader Shah's Claims to Lineage and Legitimacy0
Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars. Alla Ivanchikova (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2019). 259 pp. ISBN 97815575384680
The Nation-State and the (Re)Construction of Religious, Ethnic and Gender Relations0
The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics, Sedighi Anousha and Shabani-Jadidi Pouneh (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-873674-5 (hbk), 608 pp.0
In Memoriam: Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti (26 November 1938–19 September 2020): Teacher, Author, and Scholar of Islamic and Iranian Studies0
“Betrayed into the Hands of the Enemy”: The 1795–96 Russian Investigation of the Death of Hedayat-Allah Khan of Gilan0
India in the Persianate Age, 1000-1765, Richard M. Eaton , Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019, ISBN 978-0-5203-2512-8 (hbk), 512 pp.0
Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance. Michelle Langford (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Pp. xiv, 278 (hardcover). ISBN 97817807629820
Letting Live in Revolutionary Iran0
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700–1900. Kevin L. Schwartz (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Pp. 233. $100.00 hardcover. ISBN 97814744508430
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Khalil Maleki: The Human Face of Iranian Socialism, Homa Katouzian, London: Oneworld Publications (Radical Histories of the Middle East), 2018, ISBN 978-1-7860-7293-1 (hbk), 320 pp.0
Historical Cognition and the Taxonomy of Sources0
As Seen from Bombay: An Iranian Zoroastrian Photo Album from the 1930s0
Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary, Rajeev Kinra, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015, ISBN 9780520286467 (pbk)0
Adab and Modernity: A “Civilising Process”? (Sixteenth–Twenty-First Century), Catherine Mayeu0
Literary Translation in Modern Iran: A Sociological Study, by Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014, ISBN 978 90 272 5854 0 (hbk), 236 pp.0
John Renard. Rumi: A Life in Pictures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.0
Soft Epiphanies: The Multilayered Narratives in Abbas Kiarostami's Film Close-Up (1990)0
Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry, Levi Thompson, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 231 pages. £75.00. ISBN: 978-1-009-16447-40
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Kian Tajbakhsh, Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). x + 303 pp. (GBP)75. ISBN 9781009160919.0
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Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway, Mikiya Koyagi, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781503613133 (hbk), 296 pages.0
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The Future of Iran's Past: Nizam al-Mulk Remembered, Neguin Yavari, London: Hurst & Company, 2018, ISBN 978-1-84904-820-0 (hbk), 275 pp.0
Hurufism: The Faḍlallāh Family, Children, and Testament0
Introduction - Postrevolutionary Iran: A Handbook, Boroujerdi Mehrzad and Rahimkhani Kourosh, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-8156-3574-1 (hbk), 896 pp., 22 illus.0
Centuries beyond Time (Qarn-hā-ye bi-Zamān): Epistemological Analysis of ʿAttār's Manteq al-Tayr. Mehdi Mohabbati (Tehran: Hermes, 2020). Pp. 951. ISBN 97860045623170
Iranian Film and Persian Fiction, M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2016, ISBN 978-1568593418; paperback, xvi + 246 pp.0
Traces of Pharyngeal Consonants in Isfahani Persian: A Case of Language Contact0
Sanāʾi’sHadiqat al-haqiqeh: Between Narrative and Non-narrative0
Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empire, Faiz Ahmed, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017, ISBN 9780674971943 (hbk), 448 pp.0
The American College of Tehran: A Memorial Album, 1932. Edited by Ali Gheissari (Irvine, CA: Jordan Center for Persian Studies and University of California, 2020). Hardcover, 464 pp. ISBN: 978-19497430
Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs: State and Identity in Post-Mongol Central Eurasia, Joo-Yup Lee (Studies in Persian Cultural History 8), Leiden: Brill, 2016, 0
Final /n/ Deletion in Ghayeni Persian: Opacity in Harmonic Serialism and Parallel Optimality Theory0
Not By Archives Alone: The “Revolution” in Soviet Central Asian Literary Studies0
IRN volume 56 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Taqi Erāni, Bizhan Jazani, and a Marxian Framework for the Critique of Religion in Twentieth Century Iranian Political Thought0
Review Essay0
Diplomatie nippo-iranienne: Enjeu énergétique et interférences américaines: Concilier l’inconcili0
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran. Blake Atwood (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021). 252 pp. ISBN 97802625428450
The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora: Meaning and Identity since the Islamic Revolution, Sanaz Fotouhi, London: I. B. Tauris, 2015, ISBN 978-1780767284 (hbk), 288 pp.0
Writing in Turbulent Times. Introduction to the Roundtable on the 2022–23 Iranian Protests0
Recasting American and Persian Literatures: Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch, Amirhossein Vafa, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, ISB0
The Seljuqs and their Successors: Art, Culture and History, edited by Sheila R. Canby, Deniz Beyazit and Martina Rugiadi, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1-4744-5034-8, xviii+3100
Khalil Mostowfi (b. Tabriz, 1941–d. Tehran, 20 February 2020): Bookseller, Assessor of Manuscripts, Lithographs, and Rare Titles in Iranian Studies0
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Religious Modernism in Pre-University Schools: The Case of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s Iran0
From Iran to the Netherlands, and everywhere in between0
Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture. M. Mehdi Khorrami and Amir Moosavi, eds. Iranian Studies Series (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2021). Pp.0
Kermanshah City and Province, Willem Floor, Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2018, ISBN 978-949445-00-8 (hbk), 591 pp., 60 illus.0
Abdolhossein Azarang, Tārikh-e tarjomeh dar Iran: as dowrān-e bāstān tā pāyān-e asr-e Qajar [History of Translation in Iran: From Antiquity to the End of the Qajar Era] (Tehran, Iran, Qoqnoos P0
Persian Studies in India and the Colonial Universities, 1857–19470
Patterns of Wisdom in Safavid Iran: The Philosophical School of Isfahan and the Gnostic of Shiraz. Janis Esots (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021). 263 pp. ISBN 97807556449190
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The Neo-Aramaic Dialects of Iran0
The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia. Arash Khazeni (Oakland, CA: California University Press, 2020). Pp. 264. $85.00 (Hardcover), $29.95 (Paperback) ISBN: 97805202890
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Forlorn Arabs and Flying Americans: National Identity in the Early Childhood Curriculum of Postrevolutionary Iran, 1979–20090
Occult Ecumenism: Maḥmūd Dihdār Shīrāzī's Unveiling Secrets as Exemplar of Timurid-Safavid Sunni-Shiʿi Science0
Tohfeye Ziyarat (Souvenir of Pilgrimage): Religious Mobility and Public Health in Late Qajar Iran, c. 1890–19040
Endangered Iranian Languages: Language Contact and Language Islands in Iran0
Women’s Writing in Action: On Female-authored Hajj Narratives in Qajar Iran0
The Origins of the Arab-Iranian Conflict: Nationalism and Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars. Chelsi Mueller (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 274 pp.0
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J. T. P. de Bruijn (1931–2023) The bird of Time completes its round0
“Islam Says We Are All Equal”: The Islamic Turn in Soviet Propaganda in Iran, 1921–250
The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands (Collected Studies in Three Vo0
A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-Option under the Islamic Republic. Fatemeh Shams (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). ISBN 978-0-19-885882-9 (hbk), xvi + 371 pp.0
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists. Wazhmah Osman, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 20200
Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran. Afshin Marashi (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020). Pp. 328. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97814773207920
Second-Generation Iranian Zoroastrians in a New American Homeland: A Case Study in California0
Professor Daniel Tsadik: Obituary0
Fatemeh Javaheri, Tahlili naqqādāneh az peymāyeshhāy-e melli dar Iran [A Critical Analysis of National Surveys in Iran] (Tehran, Iran, Research Center for Culture, Art, and Communication, 2021)0
From the Kur to the Aras: A Military History of Russia's Move into the South Caucasus and the First Russo-Iranian War, 1801–1813. George A. Bournoutian (Brill, 2021), ISBN: 978-90-04-44515-4.0
Slavery and Empire in Central Asia, Jeff Eden, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-108-47051-3 (hbk), 227 pp.0
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“A Priest does not consider the toppling of the Shah as an option” The KGB and the revolution in Iran0
The Role of the Clergy in the Establishment and Consolidation of Pahlavi I (1925–1941)0
The Nature of Legitimacy: Representations of the Natural World in Iskandar Beg Munshi’sTārīkh-e ʿĀlam-ārā-ye ʿAbbāsī0
Obituary – ERRATUM0
Mughal Arcadia: Persian Literature in an Indian Court, Sunil Sharma, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0-6749-7585-9 (hbk), 266 pp.0
Diachronic Development of the K-suffixes: Evidence from Classical New Persian, Contemporary Written Persian, and Contemporary Spoken Persian0
The Ancient Iranian Perception of Cyrus the Great0
The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia: An Areal Perspective (The world of Linguistics Series, volume 6), Haig Geoffrey and Khan Geoffrey (eds.), Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018, ISBN 970
Iranian Cities and Persian Fiction (Bibliotheca Iranica: Literature, 18) M. R. Ghanoonparvar Mazda Pub (January 28, 2022). 362 pages $35.00 ISBN-13: 978-15685939370
And the Master Answered?: Deferrals of Authority in Contemporary Sufism in Iran0
Editor’s Note0
Obituary0
In Memoriam: Anna Vanzan (1955–2020)0
Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic, Narges Bajoghli, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-5036-1029-3 (pbk), 176 pp.0
The Reluctant Warrior: Semiotic Notes on the Story of Zāl in theShāhnāmeh0
Sufis and Their Opponents in the Persianate World, Reza Tabandeh and Leonard Lewisohn (eds.), Irvine, CA: UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2020, ISBN 978-1-949743-20-3 (hbk), 632 pp.0
The Pearl of Dari: Poetry and Personhood among Young Afghans in Iran, Zuzanna Olszewska, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-253-01760-4 (pbk), 264 pp.0
The Proverbial Wisdom of a Georgian Language Island in Iran0
Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World. Laetitia Nanquette (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp. 312. $105.00 hardcover. ISBN 970
Lives of the Prophets: The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru’s “Assembly of Chronicles,” Mohamad 0
Quiet Strength: Kurdish Women Kolbars and the Feminization of Poverty0
Two Raji Dialects Converge with Persian: Contrasting Responses to Contact Influence0
The Shah, the Islamic Revolution and the United States, Darioush Bayandor, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, ISBN: 978-3-319-96118-7; hardback, 438 pp.0
Persian Royal–Judaean Elite Engagements in the Teispid and Achaemenid Empire: The King's Acolytes, Jason M. Silverman (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 690), London: Bloomsbury (Impr0
Iranian Identity and National Oppression: Crafting the Modern Iranian Nation–State0
The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination Rebecca Ruth Gould (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). 312 pp. Hardcover, $95.33. ISBN 97814744840150
The Postal System in Safavid, Afsharid, and Zand Iran0
Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions. Liora Hendelman-Baavur (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019). 340 pp. ISBN: 9781108498074 (hardcover)0
Bert G. Fragner0
World Literature and Hedayat's Poetics of Modernity. Omid Azadibougar (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Pp. 203. $89.99 hardcover, paper; $69.99 e-book. ISBN: 978-981-15-1690-0.0
Post-Revolutionary Iran: A Handbook, Boroujerdi Mehrzad and Rahimkhani Kourosh, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-8156-3574-1 (hbk), 896 pp., 22 illus.0
Art of Protest in Five Acts0
Ali Gholipour, Parvaresh-e zogh-e āmme dar asr-e pahlavi: tarbiyat-e zibashenakhti-ye mellat dar siyasatgozari-ye farhangi-ye dolat [Cultivating the Public Taste in the Pahlavi Era: Aesthetic Upbringi0
Abdullah Ghouchani (b. Baghdad, 11 August 1948, d. Tehran, 7 August 2020): Epigrapher, Expert in Med0
A Political Prosopography of the Islamic Republic - Post-Revolutionary Iran: A Handbook, Boroujerdi Mehrzad and Rahimkhani Kourosh, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-810
Tribes and Smugglers in Iran's Eastern Borderlands, 1921–410
IRN volume 55 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
The Isfahan Anthology Project0
“The Shah's House Became the People's House”: Narrating Iran's Modern History at the Pahlavi Dynasty Museum0
The War between the Turks and the Persians: Conflict and Religion in the Safavid and Ottoman Worl0
Narrative Geometry in ʿAli Reza Gholami’sDivar(The Wall): New Developments in Iranian War Literature0
Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia. James Pickett (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020). Pp. 301. $54.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97815017502430
From Persianate Cosmopolis to Persianate Modernity: Translating from Urdu to Persian in Twentieth-Century Iran and Afghanistan0
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Habib Ladjevardi, 1938–20210
Persian Interventions: The Achaemenid Empire, Athens and Sparta, 450-386 BCE, John O. Hyland,0
Islam, Modernity and New Millennium: Themes from a Critical Rationalist Reading of Islam, Ali Paya, London and New York: Routledge, 2018, ISBN 978-0-367-88749-0 (pbk), 978-1-138-08775-0 (hbk), 0
Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry. Domenico Ingenito (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 697 pp.0
The Ottoman Empire and the Modern Hajj: Converging Histories from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean0
The Unfinished History of the Iran–Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Annie Tracy Samuel (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). xvii + 302 pp. $99.99. ISBN 9781100
The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India. Alexander Jabbari (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023). 260 pp. ISBN 97810093208630
The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c. 1760–c. 1870, S. R. O. Thomas OP Flynn, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017, ISBN 978-90-04-16399-7 (hbk), xxvii + 1113 pp.0
Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present, Jonathan L. Lee, London: Reaktion Books, 2018, ISBN 978-1-78914-010-1 (hbk), 780 pp.0
The Poet Nefʿī, Fresh Persian Verse, and Ottoman Freshness0
Andre Godard and Maxime Siroux: Disentangling the Narrative of French Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Iran0
“We Deserve Better”: Ideologies of Deservingness and Status in the Interpretation of Chinese Goods in an Iranian Bazaar0
The Metaphorical Use of Body Parts in Forming Counting expressions: Evidence from Tāti Language Group0
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity, Manata Hashemi, New York: New York University Press, 2020, ISBN 9781479876334 (hbk), 256 pp.0
Drifting toward Revolution: Kurt Scharf and the dah shab in Tehran0
A Linguistic Survey of Khorasan: Implications for Language Isolation, Language Change, and Contact Linguistics0
Anonymous, Az Goruh-e Setareh ta Sazman-e Vahdat-e Komunisti: Rahi be Raha'i [From the Star Group to the Organization of Communist Unity: A Road to Emancipation] (Vienna, Austria: Ketab-e Raha,0
Special Issue: Parsis and Iranians in the Modern Period0
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Ctesias’ Persica and Its Near Eastern Context, Waters Matt, Madison: University of Wisconsin 0
Call to Arms: Iran's Marxist Revolutionaries; Formation and Evolution of the Fadaʾis, 1964–1976. Ali Rahnema (London: OneWorld Academic, 2021). Pp. 528. $45.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97817860798550
Afghanistan's Lost Futures - Afghan Crucible, The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan. Elisabeth Leake (Oxford University Press, 2022). i-xxii, 343 pages, maps. ISBN: 978-0-19-884601-0
Students for Freedom and Equality: The Inevitable Return of the Left in Post-Revolutionary Iran0
Traveling through an Ocean of Wonders: Muḥammad RabīʿsSafīna-yi Sulaymānīand Southeast and East Asian Geography0
Written Representation of Temporal Power in Safavid Material Culture0
The Iranian Expanse. Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE – 642 CE, Matthew P. Canepa, Oakland: University of California Press, 2018, 0
Recent Titles in Iranian Studies0
The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan. Kathryn Babayan (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 260. $65.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97815036133860
Persian Historiography Across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, Sholeh Quinn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108842211 (hbk), 250 pp.0
From Worker-Peasant to Reluctant Revolutionary Industrial Worker in the Establishment of Iran's Copper Industry: The Sarcheshmeh Copper Mine, 1960s–1970s0
On the Road: The Life and Verse of Mir Zeyn al-Din ʿEshq, a Forgotten Eighteenth-Century Poet0
Badr al-Zamān Qarib (b. Tehran, 23 August 1929, d. Tehran, 28 July 2020): Author and Translator, Lin0
English Language Teaching in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Innovations, Trends and Challenges, Chris Kennedy (ed.). London: British Council, 2015, ISBN 978-0-86355-769-9 (pbk), 172 pp.0
Iranian National Cinema: The Interaction of Policy, Genre, Funding, and Reception (Iranian Studies), Anne Démy-Geroe, Abingdon AND New York: Routledge, 2020, ISBN 978-0367219413 (hbk), 222 pp.0
Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran. Lior Sternfeld (California: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 208. $24.00 paperback. ISBN: 97815036136380
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Crafting Masculine Selves: Culture, War, and Psychodynamics in Afghanistan, Andrea Chiovenda, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-0-19-007355-8 (hbk), 274 pp.0
The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad. Hamid Dabashi (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), 334 pp.0
The One Thousand and First Night: A Play by Bahram Beyzaie Translated and Critical Analysis by Saeed Talajooy (San Francisco, USA: Bisheh Publishing, 2023). 162 pp. Paperback, $20. ISBN 97817355686760
Translator as Historical Re-Narrator: The Case of the Persian Translation of Clements Markham's History of Persia0
The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran: An Archival and Photographic Adventure, Fatehra0
Iranian Women & Gender in the Iran-Iraq War, by Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 457 pages.0
“Iranian Conditions: Health Problems and Medical Practices in the Words of the Staff of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1900–1950”0
The Armenian Community and Changing Iranian Perceptions of Minority0
Saljuq Architecture in Iran: The Friday Mosque of Urmiya0
The Layered Heart: Essays on Persian Poetry. A Celebration in Honor of Dick Davis, Seyed-Ghorab Ali-Asghar (ed.), Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2019, ISBN 978-1-9338-2397-3 (hbk), 676 pp.0
Quatrains of Many Receptions: A Survey of Perceptions of ‘Omar Khayyām in Ottoman and Turkish Translations0
Women and the Islamic Republic: How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State. Shirin Saeidi (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). 220 pp. Hardcover $75. ISBN: 13165157610
The Beginnings of Word Order Change in the Arabic Dialects of Southern Iran in Contact with Persian: A Preliminary Study of Data from Four Villages in Bushehr and Hormozgan0
Capitalist Lineages of Early Modern Iran0
Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran. Nazanin Shahrokni (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020). ISBN 9780520304284 (paperback), 176 pp.0
The Jewish Athletes of Iran: The Sports Activities and Achievements of the Jews of Iran, Arsalan Geula, San Bernardino, CA: Author, 2019, ISBN 978-1-6538-7808-6 (pbk), 86 pp.0
Fārsīgraphy in Zoroastrian Middle Persian Manuscripts0
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