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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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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.12
“Iranian Conditions: Health Problems and Medical Practices in the Words of the Staff of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1900–1950”7
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.5
The Prince and the Sufi: The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies, Dalia Yasharpour (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021). 317 pp. € 146.59. ISBN: 978-90-04-44274-0.3
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, 3
Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century. Matthew K. Shannon (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024). Pp. 330. Hardcover $54.95. ISBN 97815017759493
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.3
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists. Wazhmah Osman, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 20203
The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India. Alexander Jabbari (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023). 260 pp. ISBN 97810093208632
Under the Waves: The Many Lives of Moniru Ravanipur's The Drowned2
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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 Upbringi2
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 9781009160919.2
Professor Daniel Tsadik: Obituary2
The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry: Politics of Poetic Experimentation. Farshad Sonboldel (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). 232 pages. $120. ISBN: 97887651036092
“I'd rather be married to someone I can control”: Female Javānmardī in Gulbadan Begum's Humayunnamah as a Mirror for Princesses2
Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran. Hussein Banai (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 174 pp. Hardcover $99.99. ISBN 97811084955922
The Hero of “the Noble Afshar People”: Reconsidering Nader Shah's Claims to Lineage and Legitimacy2
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: 978-0-19-884601-2
Hurufism: The Faḍlallāh Family, Children, and Testament2
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Between Rebellion and Obedience: The Making of Docile Revolutionary Children in Post-Revolutionary Iran’s Keyhān-e Bachcheh-hā2
The Metaphorical Use of Body Parts in Forming Counting expressions: Evidence from Tāti Language Group2
In Memoriam: Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti (26 November 1938–19 September 2020): Teacher, Author, and Scholar of Islamic and Iranian Studies1
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Not By Archives Alone: The “Revolution” in Soviet Central Asian Literary Studies1
Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation, Robert D. Crews, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-6742-8609-2 (hbk), 400 pp.1
Marche Triomphale: A Forgotten Musical Tract in Qajar-European Encounters1
Monolingualism in Iran: The Politics of Writing in Azeri Turkish1
Representation of Aphrodite and Eros on Sasanian Clay Bullae: Evidence from the Fire Temple of Ādur Gušnasp at Takht-e Solaymān1
Fawāka al-Basātin: Montakhabāti Falsafi, Eʿteqādi, Revāʾi dar Avākher-e Qājāriyeh, asar-e Hājj Mirzā Mohammad Tehrāni [Fruits of Gardens by Hājj Mirzā Mohammad Tehrāni: A Philosophical Miscellany in A1
The Security-Development Nexus and the Jina Mahsa Amini Protests in Iran's Border Provinces1
Editor's Note1
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Diachronic Development of the K-suffixes: Evidence from Classical New Persian, Contemporary Written Persian, and Contemporary Spoken Persian1
Naderid Iran's Statehood, Territoriality, Status, and Diplomatic Capacity on Ottoman Scale: 1723-17481
The Frontier Pushes Back: From Local Languages to Imperial Substrate(s) in Scribal Practices in 8th-century Central Asia1
Iranian Women & Gender in the Iran-Iraq War, by Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 457 pages.1
Translator as Historical Re-Narrator: The Case of the Persian Translation of Clements Markham's History of Persia1
India in the Persian World of Letters: Ḳhān-i Ārzū among the Eighteenth-Century Philologists. Arthur Dudney (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022). 336 pp. ISBN 97801928574151
What is at Stake in the Frame Story? A Timurid Reshaping of the Romance of Bahrām Gūr1
The Bavadi and Their Bakhtiari Dialect1
A Capitalist Economy without Robust Capitalist Production1
Performative Diplomacy: Iran–Republic of China Relations, 1920–19491
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present. John Ghazvinian (London: Oneworld, 2020). Pp 667, including notes and index. £35.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97817860794731
Kurdish Bildungsroman and Its Historical and Social Concerns: The Case of Sayyed Qadir Hedayati1
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: 97815036133861
New Histories for the Age of Speed: The Archaeological–Architectural Past in Interwar Afghanistan and Iran1
Political Convergence, Surpluses of Activism, and Genealogy: Examining Iran's Quasi-Revolutionary Situation1
The Role of the Clergy in the Establishment and Consolidation of Pahlavi I (1925–1941)1
Kermanshah City and Province, Willem Floor, Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2018, ISBN 978-949445-00-8 (hbk), 591 pp., 60 illus.1
Completing the Persianate Turn1
The Persian Novel: Ideology, Fiction, and Form in the Periphery, Omid Azadibougar, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014, ISBN 978-90-420-3884-4 (pbk), 241 pp.1
With the Caravan of Isidore of Charax on the Road of Upper Media: Reconstruction of the Ancient Routes and Some Old Toponyms in the Kangavar-Asadabad Plain, Based on Historical Texts and Archaeologica1
Canonization and sacred text in the Yārsān religion1
Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi: Building an Ark, Prashant Keshavmurthy, New York: Routledge (Iranian Studies, 33), 2016, ISBN 9780367876449 (hbk), 178 pp.1
The Danish Orientalist Arthur Christensen's Visit to Iran in 1929 and His Meeting with the Iranian Intelligentsia1
Telling a Different Story: Redeployment of the Narrative Alexander Tradition in a Medieval PersianDāstān1
“The Shah's House Became the People's House”: Narrating Iran's Modern History at the Pahlavi Dynasty Museum1
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
A Firm Policy Decision: Infrastructural Form and Pahlavi Developmentalism at the Ahvāz Pipe Mill0
The Collapse of the Male Gaze in the Cinema of Bahram Beyzaie: The Crow and Maybe Some Other Time0
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Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran. Blake Atwood (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021). 252 pp. ISBN 97802625428450
Gender and Singing in Pahlavi Soundscape: Modern Feminine Culture and Masculine Politics in the Age of Popular Culture, Vision, and Rumors; A Discussion of Sensory History in Modern Iran0
Quiet Strength: Kurdish Women Kolbars and the Feminization of Poverty0
Afterword to Persianate Pasts, National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century0
Writing Capitalism into Iran through the International0
Īhām, or the Technique of Double Meaning in Literature: Its Theory and Practice in the Twelfth Century0
Displaying Modern Life: Experiencing the Promises, Desires, and Perils of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s Tehran through Window-Shopping in Crossroad of Events (1955), Mr. Naive (1971), and Under the Skin of 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
Sites of Disremembering: Narrative Tactics of Remembering the Past in Qasr and Heshmatieh Neighborhoods of Tehran0
Linguistic Change and the Future of Metrical Persian Poetry0
From Persianate Cosmopolis to Persianate Modernity: Translating from Urdu to Persian in Twentieth-Century Iran and Afghanistan0
The Arts of Ornamental Geometry: A Persian Compendium on Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures, Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutawāfiqa (Bibliothèque nationale de Fran0
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
Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East. Arang Keshavarzian (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024). 324 pp. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036388770
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Ḥikāyat-i Sayyid Nāṣir-i Khusraw: Analyses of a subaltern Nizari Ismaili Text Written before the Declaration of the Qiyāmat-i buzurg (the Great Resurrection) in 559/11640
Conflicting Worldviews: Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsāʾī’sRisālat al-Rashtīyahand the Problematic ofAkbarīanMysticism0
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway, Mikiya Koyagi, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781503613133 (hbk), 296 pages.0
From Quasi-Vegetarians to Quasi-Carnivores: The Changing Diet of Iranians0
Traveling through an Ocean of Wonders: Muḥammad RabīʿsSafīna-yi Sulaymānīand Southeast and East Asian Geography0
Fārsīgraphy in Zoroastrian Middle Persian Manuscripts0
Zoroastrian Doctrine of Formation of Heavenly Bodies in Pahlavi Texts0
Russian Officialdom and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1905–19110
Ḥakīm Zajjājī’s Humāyūn-nāmah: An Eye-Witness Account of Early Mongol Rule in Tabriz (1220–1258)0
Women Reclaiming Their Voices for Life and Freedom: Music and the 2022 Uprising in Iran0
Power and Philanthropy: The Imperial Dimensions of Parsi Amelioration of the Iranian Zoroastrians0
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
The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation. Sohrab Sepehri. Translated by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Prashant Keshavmurthy (Leiden: Brill, 2022). 419 pp. ISBN 97890044723720
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
Review of Maziar Behrooz - Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia0
“A Priest does not consider the toppling of the Shah as an option” The KGB and the revolution in Iran0
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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 Dicle0
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Art of Protest in Five Acts0
Letting Live in Revolutionary Iran0
The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London, Nile Green, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-6911-6832-6 (hbk), xvi + 416 pp.0
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dastanandtuwān, Adjectives or Nouns? A Discussion about Their Grammatical Category and Meaning in Middle Persian0
Writing in Turbulent Times. Introduction to the Roundtable on the 2022–23 Iranian Protests0
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian, Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (ed.), London and New York: Routledge, 2020, ISBN 9781138333055 (hbk), 688 pp.0
Persianate Pasts; National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century0
The Isfahan Anthology Project0
Ismāʿīl al-Qasṛī, Kubrawiyya, and Sufi Genealogies: “Deep-Dark Transmissions” in Medieval Iran0
The Bābī-Bahā’ī Revolution in Iran – CORRIGENDUM0
Transcendence between Expression and Secrecy: A Critical Cognitive Perspective on the Metaphorical Discourse of Yārsān Religion0
Iran Protests and Patterns of State Repression0
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Scholarly Circles and the Transmission of Knowledge: Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (d. 1030/1621) and His Mobile Scholarly Circle in Safavid Iran0
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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
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700–1900. Kevin L. Schwartz (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Pp. 233. $100.00 hardcover. ISBN 97814744508430
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s New Population Policy and Recent Changes in Fertility0
Early Persian Verse Romances inMutaqārib: Form, Structure, Contents0
Shadow Performance in Iran0
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
Creating the Modern Iranian Policeman: 1911–19350
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J. T. P. de Bruijn (1931–2023) The bird of Time completes its round0
Yazd and its Zoroastrians0
Public Interest (Maslahat) in Shiʿi Theocracy: Implications for Legal and Political Decision-Making0
Soundwaves of Dissent: Resistance Through Persianate Cultural Production in Afghanistan0
TheQalandarKing: Early Development of theQalandariyyātand Saljuq Conceptions of Kingship in Amir Moʿezzi's Panegyric for Sharafshāh Jaʿfari0
From Iran to the Netherlands, and everywhere in between0
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Artificial Intelligence in Iran: National Narratives and Material Realities0
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
Back to the Motherland? Parsi Gujarati Travelogues of Iran in the Qajar-Pahlavi Interregnum, 1921–19250
The Gharib Shah Rebellion of 16290
Persian Historiography Across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, Sholeh Quinn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108842211 (hbk), 250 pp.0
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Bahram Beyzaie: A Visionary in Focus—A Review of Saeed Talajooy’s Study - Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre: Paradigms of Being and Belonging (1959–1979). Volume 1. Saeed Talajooy0
Tammarītu, “king of Ḫidalu,” Tammarītu, “king of Elam”0
Gurughli: The Tajik Variety of the Epic of Köroğlu0
Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin before Nationalism. Mana Kia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 336. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036119550
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier, Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8047-7411-6 (pbk0
Pictorial Modernity and the Armenian Women of Iran0
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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Capitalist Lineages of Early Modern Iran0
Sufism vs. Monism in ʿAzīz-i Nasafī's Works0
Persian Studies in India and the Colonial Universities, 1857–19470
A History of Style and a Style of History: The Hermeneutic ofTarzin Persian Literary Criticism0
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
“Rich Fields in Persia”: Parsi Capital and the Origins of Economic Development in Pahlavi Iran, 1925–19410
Special Issue: Parsis and Iranians in the Modern Period0
From ritual to performance: Ta'zieh in Iran today0
Religious Modernism in Pre-University Schools: The Case of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s Iran0
The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception, Behnam M. Fomeshi, Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-9-0872-8335-3 (pbk), 240 pp.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
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
Retranslation in Mughal South Asia: The Impressive Failure of a Persian Panchatantra0
John Renard. Rumi: A Life in Pictures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.0
Discourses of Writing in Negāresh Textbooks: The Neglect of Social Practice and Sociopolitical Discourses in the Pedagogy of Persian Writing0
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Uncertain Cures: The Medical Marketplace in Pahlavi Iran0
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The Market in Poetry in the Persian World. Shahzad Bashir (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 88 pp. $20.00 paper. ISBN 97811089486470
Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History, Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-108-41851-5 (hbk), xv + 303 pp.0
Pictorial Modernity and the Armenian Women of Iran – CORRIGENDUM0
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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 978-1-780
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
Familial Undercurrents: Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran. Afsaneh Najmbadi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022). pp. 162. $25.950
Disciplining Persian Literature in Twentieth-Century Afghanistan0
Distinction and Survival: Zoroastrians, Religious Nationalism, and Cultural Ownership in Shiʿi Iran0
The School Principal and the Children: Patriarchy and Changing Childhoods in Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad's Novella0
Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions, Ann E. Lucas, Oakland: University of California Press, 2019, ISBN 978-0-520-30080-4 (pbk), 288 pp.0
Observing Iran from Baku: Iranian Studies in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan0
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
My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, Katherine Whitney and Leila Emery (eds.), Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1-4773-2027-3 (hbk), 296 pp.0
The Postal System in Safavid, Afsharid, and Zand Iran0
Recent Titles in Iranian Studies0
Occult Ecumenism: Maḥmūd Dihdār Shīrāzī's Unveiling Secrets as Exemplar of Timurid-Safavid Sunni-Shiʿi Science0
Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance. Michelle Langford (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Pp. xiv, 278 (hardcover). ISBN 97817807629820
Tohfeye Ziyarat (Souvenir of Pilgrimage): Religious Mobility and Public Health in Late Qajar Iran, c. 1890–19040
The Sultan's Life as a Tragedy? Zeyā al-Din Barani, Moʿezz al-Din Keyqobād, and the Performance ofTārikh0
As Seen from Bombay: An Iranian Zoroastrian Photo Album from the 1930s0
Kurdish Politics in Iran: Crossborder Interactions and Mobilisation since 1947. Allan Hassaniyan (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 236. Hardcover $110. ISBN 97813165164300
Goštāsb, Farzāne. Āẕar Kayvān: zendegināme, ās̱ār-o ʿaqāyed [Āẕar Kayvān: An Account of His Life, Writings and Beliefs]. Pažuhešgāh-e ʿolūm-e ensānī-o moṭāleʿāt-e farhangī, 1400 š [2021]0
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Domy na piasku. Polacy w Iranie (1942–1945). Katarzyna Rodacka (Krakow: Znak, 2025). 306 pp. Hardcover 64.99 zł. ISBN: 97883240644340
The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad. Hamid Dabashi (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), 334 pp.0
To Tell Anew: Fresh Perspectives on Persian Narrative0
Re-considering Environmental Activism in Iran: Materiality and Social Histories of Nature0
Drifting toward Revolution: Kurt Scharf and the dah shab in Tehran0
The Armenian Community and Changing Iranian Perceptions of Minority0
The “Kāmūsī Corpus”: A Case Study in Manuscript Production and Knowledge Transmission in Ilkhanid Iran0
Gholam-Hosayn Zargarinezhad, Andisheh va Siyasat dar Iran-e Qajar [Thought and Politics in Qajar Iran], 2 vols (Tehran: Negarestan-e Andisheh, 1398 Sh./2019–20).0
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Hezb-e Tudeh-ye Iran and Its Struggle Against the Challenges Posed Against It by the British, 1942–1946: An Analysis Based on Soviet Documents0
Soviet Persian Anthologies: Transnational, Multinational, International0
Kamran Talattof. Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature: Demystifying the Mystic, Palgrave MacMillan, Switzerland, 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-97989-8, 284 pp.0
The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India. Supriya Gandhi (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020). Pp. 338. $32.00 hardcover. ISBN 97806749872960
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Emissaries of Enlightenment: Azeri Theater Troupes in Iran and Central Asia, 1906–440
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
“What Sāz Did We Go to War with?” Musical Representation and the Possibility of a Persian Musical Modernity0
The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran. Beeta Baghoolizadeh (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024). 230 pages, 32 illustrations. $26.95 paper. ISBN 97814780302490
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The Iran-Iraq War, Pierre Razoux, Nicholas Elliott (trans.), Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-6740-8863-4 (hbk), 688 pp.0
The Afghan Bachah and its Discontents: An Introductory History0
The Reluctant Warrior: Semiotic Notes on the Story of Zāl in theShāhnāmeh0
Slavery and Empire in Central Asia, Jeff Eden, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-108-47051-3 (hbk), 227 pp.0
Love at a Crux – The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages. Cameron Cross (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2023). 370 pages. ISBN 978-1-4875-4727-1.0
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
The Foreign Trade of Tabriz: 1800-19000
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 Cultural Impact of the Persian Language in and around Bidlis0
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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Taqi Erāni, Bizhan Jazani, and a Marxian Framework for the Critique of Religion in Twentieth Century Iranian Political Thought0
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, Ira0
The Poet Nefʿī, Fresh Persian Verse, and Ottoman Freshness0
Materiality of Traumatic Experience and the Limits of Representation in Hassan Bani Ameri's Gonjeshkha Behesht ra Mifahmand (Sparrows Understand Heaven)0
Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Poetry, Performance, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Iran. Dominic Parviz Brookshaw (London: I. B. Tauris, 2019). Pp. 392. $40.95 paper. ISBN: 978-07556383450
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
The Formation of Modern Kurdish Society in Iran: Modernity, Modernization and Social Change, 1921–1979. Maruf Cabi (London: I. B. Tauris, 2023). 217 pp. Hardcover $100. ISBN 97807556456530
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Book review for Sinem Arcak Casale’s Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639 (University of Chicago Press, 2023)0
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
Kindred Voices: A Literary History of Medieval Anatolia. Michael Pifer (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021). Pp. 320. $45.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97803002503980
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
Ottoman Policies Regarding Shah Ismāʿīl II as Seen through Ottoman Documents0
The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran. Ali Mirsepassi (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). 256 pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN 97813995114210
Andre Godard and Maxime Siroux: Disentangling the Narrative of French Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Iran0
Judeo-Hamadani: The Language of Jews in Hamadan and Its Origins0
Intertextuality and Subversion: Nezāmi in Modern Persian Literature0
Aria Fani, Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism, Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024). Pp. 264. $55.00 c0
IRN volume 56 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
English Loanwords in Persian0
IRN volume 55 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
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
“Nowhere but Everywhere”: The Principle of Legality and the Complexities of Judicial Discretion in Iran0
The Ancient Iranian Perception of Cyrus the Great0
Ilkhanid Wood Carvings in the Mountain Villages between Kashan and Natanz0
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
“Don't Let the Boats Pass!” Neo-Elamite Grain Procurement in Times of Famine and Drought0
IRN volume 56 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Khomeini Kitsch: Material Cultures of the Iran Hostage Crisis0
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
The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination Rebecca Ruth Gould (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). 312 pp. Hardcover, $95.33. ISBN 97814744840150
Hair and Hat Ritual Shaming Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Iran0
Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars. Alla Ivanchikova (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2019). 259 pp. ISBN 97815575384680
A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East. Richard Foltz (London: I. B. Tauris, 2019). Pp. 256. $35.95 paper. ISBN: 97817845395590
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