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 2020-11-01 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Slavery and Empire in Central Asia, Jeff Eden, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-108-47051-3 (hbk), 227 pp.0
The Nature of Legitimacy: Representations of the Natural World in Iskandar Beg Munshi’sTārīkh-e ʿĀlam-ārā-ye ʿAbbāsī0
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
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
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
“A Priest does not consider the toppling of the Shah as an option” The KGB and the revolution in Iran0
As Seen from Bombay: An Iranian Zoroastrian Photo Album from the 1930s0
On the Road: The Life and Verse of Mir Zeyn al-Din ʿEshq, a Forgotten Eighteenth-Century Poet0
In Memoriam: Anna Vanzan (1955–2020)0
The Hero of “the Noble Afshar People”: Reconsidering Nader Shah's Claims to Lineage and Legitimacy0
Marche Triomphale: A Forgotten Musical Tract in Qajar-European Encounters0
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 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
Iranian Film and Persian Fiction, M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2016, ISBN 978-1568593418; paperback, xvi + 246 pp.0
Capitalist Lineages of Early Modern Iran0
A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East. Richard Foltz (London: I. B. Tauris, 2019). Pp. 256. $35.95 paper. ISBN: 97817845395590
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 Reluctant Warrior: Semiotic Notes on the Story of Zāl in theShāhnāmeh0
From Worker-Peasant to Reluctant Revolutionary Industrial Worker in the Establishment of Iran's Copper Industry: The Sarcheshmeh Copper Mine, 1960s–1970s0
Quatrains of Many Receptions: A Survey of Perceptions of ‘Omar Khayyām in Ottoman and Turkish Translations0
From Enemies to Friends with No Benefits: The Failed Attempt at an Ottoman–Iranian Alliance in the Aftermath of the 1908 Revolution0
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
Lives of the Prophets: The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru’s “Assembly of Chronicles,” Mohamad 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
Recasting American and Persian Literatures: Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch, Amirhossein Vafa, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, ISB0
Second-Generation Iranian Zoroastrians in a New American Homeland: A Case Study in California0
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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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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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
The Postal System in Safavid, Afsharid, and Zand Iran0
Tribes and Smugglers in Iran's Eastern Borderlands, 1921–410
Abdullah Ghouchani (b. Baghdad, 11 August 1948, d. Tehran, 7 August 2020): Epigrapher, Expert in Med0
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
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
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ReFocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad. Maryam Ghorbankarimi (ed.) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). ISBN 978-1474477635 (eBook), 265 pp.0
Persian Interventions: The Achaemenid Empire, Athens and Sparta, 450-386 BCE, John O. Hyland,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
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“Don't Let the Boats Pass!” Neo-Elamite Grain Procurement in Times of Famine and Drought0
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
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
Persian Studies in India and the Colonial Universities, 1857–19470
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
Sanāʾi’sHadiqat al-haqiqeh: Between Narrative and Non-narrative0
Writing Capitalism into Iran: A Roundtable Discussion0
Women’s Writing in Action: On Female-authored Hajj Narratives in Qajar Iran0
Quiet Strength: Kurdish Women Kolbars and the Feminization of Poverty0
Forlorn Arabs and Flying Americans: National Identity in the Early Childhood Curriculum of Postrevolutionary Iran, 1979–20090
Review Essay0
Minoritized Communities in Iran: The Struggle for Unconditional Equality0
“Betrayed into the Hands of the Enemy”: The 1795–96 Russian Investigation of the Death of Hedayat-Allah Khan of Gilan0
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
Ctesias’ Persica and Its Near Eastern Context, Waters Matt, Madison: University of Wisconsin 0
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 Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India. Alexander Jabbari (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023). 260 pp. ISBN 97810093208630
Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars. Alla Ivanchikova (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2019). 259 pp. ISBN 97815575384680
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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
Traveling through an Ocean of Wonders: Muḥammad RabīʿsSafīna-yi Sulaymānīand Southeast and East Asian Geography0
Two Raji Dialects Converge with Persian: Contrasting Responses to Contact Influence0
An Early Decree of Nādir Shāh Concerning the vaqf of Ardabil0
Letting Live in Revolutionary Iran0
Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance. Michelle Langford (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Pp. xiv, 278 (hardcover). ISBN 97817807629820
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Kindred Voices: A Literary History of Medieval Anatolia. Michael Pifer (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021). Pp. 320. $45.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97803002503980
Persian Historiography Across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, Sholeh Quinn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108842211 (hbk), 250 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
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
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Capitalism as a Concept of Difference in the Historiography of Iran0
Translator as Historical Re-Narrator: The Case of the Persian Translation of Clements Markham's History of Persia0
Badr al-Zamān Qarib (b. Tehran, 23 August 1929, d. Tehran, 28 July 2020): Author and Translator, Lin0
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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The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad. Hamid Dabashi (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), 334 pp.0
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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
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Iranian Identity and National Oppression: Crafting the Modern Iranian Nation–State0
Shadow Performance in 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
“Iranian Conditions: Health Problems and Medical Practices in the Words of the Staff of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1900–1950”0
Iranian Women & Gender in the Iran-Iraq War, by Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 457 pages.0
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
Familial Undercurrents: Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran. Afsaneh Najmbadi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022). pp. 162. $25.950
Fārsīgraphy in Zoroastrian Middle Persian Manuscripts0
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
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
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The War between the Turks and the Persians: Conflict and Religion in the Safavid and Ottoman Worl0
Writing in Turbulent Times. Introduction to the Roundtable on the 2022–23 Iranian Protests0
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Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History, Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-108-41851-5 (hbk), xv + 303 pp.0
Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies: Essays in Memory of Hossein Ziai, Ali Gheissari, J0
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
From Iran to the Netherlands, and everywhere in between0
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
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
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
Students for Freedom and Equality: The Inevitable Return of the Left in Post-Revolutionary Iran0
Habib Ladjevardi, 1938–20210
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
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
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700–1900. Kevin L. Schwartz (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Pp. 233. $100.00 hardcover. ISBN 97814744508430
From Persianate Cosmopolis to Persianate Modernity: Translating from Urdu to Persian in Twentieth-Century Iran and Afghanistan0
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Tohfeye Ziyarat (Souvenir of Pilgrimage): Religious Mobility and Public Health in Late Qajar Iran, c. 1890–19040
Occult Ecumenism: Maḥmūd Dihdār Shīrāzī's Unveiling Secrets as Exemplar of Timurid-Safavid Sunni-Shiʿi Science0
Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran. Lior Sternfeld (California: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 208. $24.00 paperback. ISBN: 97815036136380
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 Armenian Community and Changing Iranian Perceptions of Minority0
The Ottoman Empire and the Modern Hajj: Converging Histories from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean0
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
Professor Daniel Tsadik: Obituary0
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists. Wazhmah Osman, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 20200
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Adab and Modernity: A “Civilising Process”? (Sixteenth–Twenty-First Century), Catherine Mayeu0
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
“Islam Says We Are All Equal”: The Islamic Turn in Soviet Propaganda in Iran, 1921–250
J. T. P. de Bruijn (1931–2023) The bird of Time completes its round0
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
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
Women, Art, and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora, Mehraneh Ebrahimi, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse0
Saljuq Architecture in Iran: The Friday Mosque of Urmiya0
Reza Banakar (b. Shiraz, 1959–d. Lund, 28 August 2020): Professor of Legal Sociology and Scholar of 0
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
Special Issue: Parsis and Iranians in the Modern Period0
Written Representation of Temporal Power in Safavid Material Culture0
The Role of the Clergy in the Establishment and Consolidation of Pahlavi I (1925–1941)0
Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry. Domenico Ingenito (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 697 pp.0
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
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway, Mikiya Koyagi, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781503613133 (hbk), 296 pages.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
John Renard. Rumi: A Life in Pictures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.0
Traces of Pharyngeal Consonants in Isfahani Persian: A Case of Language Contact0
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
Taghi Erani, a Polymath in Interwar Berlin: Fundamental Science, Psychology, Orientalism, and Pol0
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
Hurufism: The Faḍlallāh Family, Children, and Testament0
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
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
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Andre Godard and Maxime Siroux: Disentangling the Narrative of French Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Iran0
Diachronic Development of the K-suffixes: Evidence from Classical New Persian, Contemporary Written Persian, and Contemporary Spoken Persian0
The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran: An Archival and Photographic Adventure, Fatehra0
Diplomatie nippo-iranienne: Enjeu énergétique et interférences américaines: Concilier l’inconcili0
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Not By Archives Alone: The “Revolution” in Soviet Central Asian Literary Studies0
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
Taqi Erāni, Bizhan Jazani, and a Marxian Framework for the Critique of Religion in Twentieth Century Iranian Political Thought0
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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
The Poet Nefʿī, Fresh Persian Verse, and Ottoman Freshness0
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
Art of Protest in Five Acts0
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
Kermanshah City and Province, Willem Floor, Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2018, ISBN 978-949445-00-8 (hbk), 591 pp., 60 illus.0
Religious Modernism in Pre-University Schools: The Case of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s Iran0
Historical Cognition and the Taxonomy of Sources0
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
“The Shah's House Became the People's House”: Narrating Iran's Modern History at the Pahlavi Dynasty Museum0
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
The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands (Collected Studies in Three Vo0
Falling Out of Love with the Franks: The Life and Writings of an Armenian Catholic Diplomat in the Service of Late Safavid Persia0
Soft Epiphanies: The Multilayered Narratives in Abbas Kiarostami's Film Close-Up (1990)0
Under the Waves: The Many Lives of Moniru Ravanipur's The Drowned0
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Farvi: An Iranian Language in Kavir Desert0
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
Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin before Nationalism. Mana Kia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 336. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036119550
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The Nation-State and the (Re)Construction of Religious, Ethnic and Gender Relations0
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 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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