Iranian Studies

Papers
(The median citation count 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Race, Slavery and Domesticity in Late Qajar Chronicles12
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s New Population Policy and Recent Changes in Fertility5
Completing the Persianate Turn3
Iran Protests and Patterns of State Repression3
New Histories for the Age of Speed: The Archaeological–Architectural Past in Interwar Afghanistan and Iran3
Dialogues with the Dead: Necropoetics of Zahra’s Paradise3
The Family Business in Iran since the Islamic Revolution as a Mode of Coordination3
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 Dicle3
From Ethnic Nationalism to Cosmopolitan Mysticism: The Life and Works of Hossein Kazemzadeh Iranshahr (1884–1962)2
The Inception of Literary Criticism in Early Modern Pashto Writings2
Soundwaves of Dissent: Resistance Through Persianate Cultural Production in Afghanistan2
Women Reclaiming Their Voices for Life and Freedom: Music and the 2022 Uprising in Iran2
Sedigheh Vasmaghi: A new voice of Iranian religious reformism2
Revolt with a Revolutionary Perspective2
Judeo-Hamadani: The Language of Jews in Hamadan and Its Origins2
Disciplining Persian Literature in Twentieth-Century Afghanistan2
Political Convergence, Surpluses of Activism, and Genealogy: Examining Iran's Quasi-Revolutionary Situation2
Persianate Pasts; National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century2
Ibn al-Malāḥimī on Zoroastrianism2
The Allure of Untranslatability: Shafiʿi-Kadkani and (Not) Translating Persian Poetry2
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
Jan Lucasz. van Hasselt: A Dutch Painter in Safavid Isfahan1
TheQalandarKing: Early Development of theQalandariyyātand Saljuq Conceptions of Kingship in Amir Moʿezzi's Panegyric for Sharafshāh Jaʿfari1
The Guide to Knowledge: The Journal Rahbar-i Dānish and Its Role in Creating a Soviet Tajik Literature (1927–1932)1
Ilkhanid Wood Carvings in the Mountain Villages between Kashan and Natanz1
The Keur Farah Pahlavi Project and Iranian-Senegalese Relations in the 1970s1
Structures in Crisis: A Narrative Approach to Asghar Farhadi’s Films1
IRN volume 55 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
France among the Most-Favored Nations: The French Commercial Policy and Influence in Iran (1815–48)1
Definiteness Marking from Evaluative Morphology in Balochi: Internal Variation and Diachronic Pathway1
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
Narrative Geometry in ʿAli Reza Gholami’sDivar(The Wall): New Developments in Iranian War Literature1
The Origins of Dabestān: Mīrzā Ḥasan Rushdīyeh and the Quest for New Education1
Power and Philanthropy: The Imperial Dimensions of Parsi Amelioration of the Iranian Zoroastrians1
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
“Rich Fields in Persia”: Parsi Capital and the Origins of Economic Development in Pahlavi Iran, 1925–19411
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
A History of Style and a Style of History: The Hermeneutic ofTarzin Persian Literary Criticism1
Female Bodies and Sexuality in Iran and the Search for Defiance, Sharifi Nafiseh, New York: P1
The Foreign Trade of Tabriz: 1800-19001
The Afghan Bachah and its Discontents: An Introductory History1
Intertextuality and Subversion: Nezāmi in Modern Persian Literature1
Telling a Different Story: Redeployment of the Narrative Alexander Tradition in a Medieval PersianDāstān1
Distinction and Survival: Zoroastrians, Religious Nationalism, and Cultural Ownership in Shiʿi Iran1
Drifting toward Revolution: Kurt Scharf and the dah shab in Tehran1
Observing Iran from Baku: Iranian Studies in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan1
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.1
And the Master Answered?: Deferrals of Authority in Contemporary Sufism in Iran1
Conflicting Worldviews: Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsāʾī’sRisālat al-Rashtīyahand the Problematic ofAkbarīanMysticism1
From Quasi-Vegetarians to Quasi-Carnivores: The Changing Diet of Iranians1
Soviet Persian Anthologies: Transnational, Multinational, International1
Jāmī, a Legend in China: A Study of the Transmission and Transformation of Jāmī’s Texts in China1
Badr al-Zamān Qarib (b. Tehran, 23 August 1929, d. Tehran, 28 July 2020): Author and Translator, Lin0
Adab and Modernity: A “Civilising Process”? (Sixteenth–Twenty-First Century), Catherine Mayeu0
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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
The War between the Turks and the Persians: Conflict and Religion in the Safavid and Ottoman Worl0
J. T. P. de Bruijn (1931–2023) The bird of Time completes its round0
Women, Art, and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora, Mehraneh Ebrahimi, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse0
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
Students for Freedom and Equality: The Inevitable Return of the Left in Post-Revolutionary Iran0
Reza Banakar (b. Shiraz, 1959–d. Lund, 28 August 2020): Professor of Legal Sociology and Scholar of 0
Habib Ladjevardi, 1938–20210
Special Issue: Parsis and Iranians in the Modern Period0
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
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
Recent Titles in Iranian Studies0
Women Write Iran: Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora. Nima Naghibi (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Pp. 211 (paperback). ISBN 978-08166838400
Tohfeye Ziyarat (Souvenir of Pilgrimage): Religious Mobility and Public Health in Late Qajar Iran, c. 1890–19040
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 Conditions: Health Problems and Medical Practices in the Words of the Staff of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1900–1950”0
The Role of the Clergy in the Establishment and Consolidation of Pahlavi I (1925–1941)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
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
Taghi Erani, a Polymath in Interwar Berlin: Fundamental Science, Psychology, Orientalism, and Pol0
Professor Daniel Tsadik: Obituary0
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
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
Traces of Pharyngeal Consonants in Isfahani Persian: A Case of Language Contact0
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
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
“Islam Says We Are All Equal”: The Islamic Turn in Soviet Propaganda in Iran, 1921–250
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Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies: Essays in Memory of Hossein Ziai, Ali Gheissari, J0
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Saljuq Architecture in Iran: The Friday Mosque of Urmiya0
Diachronic Development of the K-suffixes: Evidence from Classical New Persian, Contemporary Written Persian, and Contemporary Spoken Persian0
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
Diplomatie nippo-iranienne: Enjeu énergétique et interférences américaines: Concilier l’inconcili0
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
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
Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry. Domenico Ingenito (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 697 pp.0
Taqi Erāni, Bizhan Jazani, and a Marxian Framework for the Critique of Religion in Twentieth Century Iranian Political Thought0
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway, Mikiya Koyagi, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781503613133 (hbk), 296 pages.0
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
From Persianate Cosmopolis to Persianate Modernity: Translating from Urdu to Persian in Twentieth-Century Iran and Afghanistan0
Written Representation of Temporal Power in Safavid Material Culture0
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
Art of Protest in Five Acts0
Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran. Lior Sternfeld (California: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 208. $24.00 paperback. ISBN: 97815036136380
Kermanshah City and Province, Willem Floor, Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2018, ISBN 978-949445-00-8 (hbk), 591 pp., 60 illus.0
The Ottoman Empire and the Modern Hajj: Converging Histories from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean0
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
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran. Blake Atwood (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021). 252 pp. ISBN 97802625428450
“The Shah's House Became the People's House”: Narrating Iran's Modern History at the Pahlavi Dynasty Museum0
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists. Wazhmah Osman, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 20200
The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands (Collected Studies in Three Vo0
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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
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
The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran: An Archival and Photographic Adventure, Fatehra0
Not By Archives Alone: The “Revolution” in Soviet Central Asian Literary Studies0
Andre Godard and Maxime Siroux: Disentangling the Narrative of French Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Iran0
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John Renard. Rumi: A Life in Pictures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.0
Editor's Note0
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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
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
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 Ancient Iranian Perception of Cyrus the Great0
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
Historical Cognition and the Taxonomy of Sources0
Modernity and Its Discontents: Newspapers, Censorship, and the Press Law in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Iran0
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
“We Deserve Better”: Ideologies of Deservingness and Status in the Interpretation of Chinese Goods in an Iranian Bazaar0
Hurufism: The Faḍlallāh Family, Children, and Testament0
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
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
Soft Epiphanies: The Multilayered Narratives in Abbas Kiarostami's Film Close-Up (1990)0
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present. John Ghazvinian (London: Oneworld, 2020). Pp 667, including notes and index. £35.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97817860794730
Under the Waves: The Many Lives of Moniru Ravanipur's The Drowned0
As Seen from Bombay: An Iranian Zoroastrian Photo Album from the 1930s0
Editor's Note0
Farvi: An Iranian Language in Kavir Desert0
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Marche Triomphale: A Forgotten Musical Tract in Qajar-European Encounters0
The Nation-State and the (Re)Construction of Religious, Ethnic and Gender Relations0
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
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In Memoriam: Anna Vanzan (1955–2020)0
In Memoriam: Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti (26 November 1938–19 September 2020): Teacher, Author, and Scholar of Islamic and Iranian Studies0
Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran. Hussein Banai (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 174 pp. Hardcover $99.99. ISBN 97811084955920
A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East. Richard Foltz (London: I. B. Tauris, 2019). Pp. 256. $35.95 paper. ISBN: 97817845395590
The Isfahan Anthology Project0
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
The Poet Nefʿī, Fresh Persian Verse, and Ottoman Freshness0
Iranian Film and Persian Fiction, M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2016, ISBN 978-1568593418; paperback, xvi + 246 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
From Enemies to Friends with No Benefits: The Failed Attempt at an Ottoman–Iranian Alliance in the Aftermath of the 1908 Revolution0
The Metaphorical Use of Body Parts in Forming Counting expressions: Evidence from Tāti Language Group0
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
Religious Modernism in Pre-University Schools: The Case of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s Iran0
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
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
Second-Generation Iranian Zoroastrians in a New American Homeland: A Case Study in California0
“A Priest does not consider the toppling of the Shah as an option” The KGB and the revolution in Iran0
Bert G. Fragner0
Falling Out of Love with the Franks: The Life and Writings of an Armenian Catholic Diplomat in the Service of Late Safavid Persia0
The Nature of Legitimacy: Representations of the Natural World in Iskandar Beg Munshi’sTārīkh-e ʿĀlam-ārā-ye ʿAbbāsī0
The Hero of “the Noble Afshar People”: Reconsidering Nader Shah's Claims to Lineage and Legitimacy0
The Postal System in Safavid, Afsharid, and Zand Iran0
Abdullah Ghouchani (b. Baghdad, 11 August 1948, d. Tehran, 7 August 2020): Epigrapher, Expert in Med0
Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin before Nationalism. Mana Kia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 336. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036119550
On the Road: The Life and Verse of Mir Zeyn al-Din ʿEshq, a Forgotten Eighteenth-Century Poet0
Capitalist Lineages of Early Modern Iran0
Editor's Note0
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
Persian Interventions: The Achaemenid Empire, Athens and Sparta, 450-386 BCE, John O. Hyland,0
From Worker-Peasant to Reluctant Revolutionary Industrial Worker in the Establishment of Iran's Copper Industry: The Sarcheshmeh Copper Mine, 1960s–1970s0
Obituary – ERRATUM0
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
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
Quatrains of Many Receptions: A Survey of Perceptions of ‘Omar Khayyām in Ottoman and Turkish Translations0
“Don't Let the Boats Pass!” Neo-Elamite Grain Procurement in Times of Famine and Drought0
Slavery and Empire in Central Asia, Jeff Eden, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-108-47051-3 (hbk), 227 pp.0
Quiet Strength: Kurdish Women Kolbars and the Feminization of Poverty0
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
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Recasting American and Persian Literatures: Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch, Amirhossein Vafa, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, ISB0
Writing Capitalism into Iran: A Roundtable Discussion0
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
Ctesias’ Persica and Its Near Eastern Context, Waters Matt, Madison: University of Wisconsin 0
Tribes and Smugglers in Iran's Eastern Borderlands, 1921–410
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
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
Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars. Alla Ivanchikova (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2019). 259 pp. ISBN 97815575384680
Traveling through an Ocean of Wonders: Muḥammad RabīʿsSafīna-yi Sulaymānīand Southeast and East Asian Geography0
ReFocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad. Maryam Ghorbankarimi (ed.) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). ISBN 978-1474477635 (eBook), 265 pp.0
Editor's Note0
An Early Decree of Nādir Shāh Concerning the vaqf of Ardabil0
Editor's Note0
Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance. Michelle Langford (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Pp. xiv, 278 (hardcover). ISBN 97817807629820
The Reluctant Warrior: Semiotic Notes on the Story of Zāl in theShāhnāmeh0
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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
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
Kindred Voices: A Literary History of Medieval Anatolia. Michael Pifer (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021). Pp. 320. $45.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97803002503980
Sanāʾi’sHadiqat al-haqiqeh: Between Narrative and Non-narrative0
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
Lives of the Prophets: The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru’s “Assembly of Chronicles,” Mohamad 0
Women’s Writing in Action: On Female-authored Hajj Narratives in Qajar Iran0
Review Essay0
Capitalism as a Concept of Difference in the Historiography of Iran0
Minoritized Communities in Iran: The Struggle for Unconditional Equality0
Translator as Historical Re-Narrator: The Case of the Persian Translation of Clements Markham's History of Persia0
The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination Rebecca Ruth Gould (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). 312 pp. Hardcover, $95.33. ISBN 97814744840150
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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
The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad. Hamid Dabashi (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), 334 pp.0
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
Recent Titles in Iranian Studies0
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
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
Two Raji Dialects Converge with Persian: Contrasting Responses to Contact Influence0
Shadow Performance in Iran0
Letting Live in Revolutionary Iran0
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
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
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
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Familial Undercurrents: Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran. Afsaneh Najmbadi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022). pp. 162. $25.950
Persian Historiography Across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, Sholeh Quinn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108842211 (hbk), 250 pp.0
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
Persian Studies in India and the Colonial Universities, 1857–19470
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Editorial’s Note0
Writing in Turbulent Times. Introduction to the Roundtable on the 2022–23 Iranian Protests0
Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History, Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-108-41851-5 (hbk), xv + 303 pp.0
Forlorn Arabs and Flying Americans: National Identity in the Early Childhood Curriculum of Postrevolutionary Iran, 1979–20090
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
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From Iran to the Netherlands, and everywhere in between0
“Betrayed into the Hands of the Enemy”: The 1795–96 Russian Investigation of the Death of Hedayat-Allah Khan of Gilan0
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
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Obituary0
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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