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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Integration of Mental Health Care in Rural Iran5
New Histories for the Age of Speed: The Archaeological–Architectural Past in Interwar Afghanistan and Iran3
A Yezidi Manuscript:—Mišūr of P’īr Sīnī Bahrī/P’īr Sīnī Dārānī, Its Study and Critical Analysis3
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
The Family Business in Iran since the Islamic Revolution as a Mode of Coordination2
The Yezidi Wednesday and the Music of the Spheres2
Persianate Pasts; National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century2
The Inception of Literary Criticism in Early Modern Pashto Writings2
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
“Rich Fields in Persia”: Parsi Capital and the Origins of Economic Development in Pahlavi Iran, 1925–19412
Ibn al-Malāḥimī on Zoroastrianism2
Major and Minor Turkic Language Islands in Iran with a Special Focus on Khalaj2
The Allure of Untranslatability: Shafiʿi-Kadkani and (Not) Translating Persian Poetry2
Sedigheh Vasmaghi: A new voice of Iranian religious reformism2
The Keur Farah Pahlavi Project and Iranian-Senegalese Relations in the 1970s1
Translation of the Words of ʿAli b. Abi Tālib in Early Fourteenth-Century Iran: A Local Bilingual Network1
Iran–US Public Health Cooperative Organization (PHCO): Education, Healthcare, and Health Services in the Southwest of Iran (Fars), 1950–601
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
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
A Georgian Language Island in Iran: Fereydani Georgian1
The Journey of Infertility from Private Sphere to Public Domain: From Cosmetic Surgery to Disability1
The Origins of Dabestān: Mīrzā Ḥasan Rushdīyeh and the Quest for New Education1
Medicine and Public Health in Modern Iran: Historical and Sociological Perspectives1
Sanitized Modernity: Rural Public Health in Mid-Twentieth Century Khuzestan1
Structures in Crisis: A Narrative Approach to Asghar Farhadi’s Films1
A History of Style and a Style of History: The Hermeneutic of Tarz in Persian Literary Criticism1
France among the Most-Favored Nations: The French Commercial Policy and Influence in Iran (1815–48)1
Conflicting Worldviews: Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsāʾī’s Risālat al-Rashtīyah and the Problematic of Akbarīan Mysticism1
The Afghan Bachah and its Discontents: An Introductory History1
Soundwaves of Dissent: Resistance Through Persianate Cultural Production in Afghanistan1
Definiteness Marking from Evaluative Morphology in Balochi: Internal Variation and Diachronic Pathway1
Intertextuality and Subversion: Nezāmi in Modern Persian Literature1
Telling a Different Story: Redeployment of the Narrative Alexander Tradition in a Medieval PersianDāstān1
From Ethnic Nationalism to Cosmopolitan Mysticism: The Life and Works of Hossein Kazemzadeh Iranshahr (1884–1962)1
Distinction and Survival: Zoroastrians, Religious Nationalism, and Cultural Ownership in Shiʿi Iran1
Power and Philanthropy: The Imperial Dimensions of Parsi Amelioration of the Iranian Zoroastrians1
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
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
Disciplining Persian Literature in Twentieth-Century Afghanistan1
The Perside Language of Shiraz Jewry: A Historical-Comparative Phonology1
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
Observing Iran from Baku: Iranian Studies in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan1
Women, Art, and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora, Mehraneh Ebrahimi, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse1
The Ottoman Empire and the Modern Hajj: Converging Histories from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean0
Recent Titles in Iranian Studies0
Iran Protests and Patterns of State Repression0
IRN volume 55 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists. Wazhmah Osman, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 20200
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
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
IRN volume 56 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Mortality Matters: Sources on Population Health and Mortality during the First World War in Iran0
A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran‘s Age of Cholera, Afkhami Amir A., Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-4214-2721-7 (hbk), 296 pp.0
Ilkhanid Wood Carvings in the Mountain Villages between Kashan and Natanz0
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
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
In Memoriam: Anna Vanzan (1955–2020)0
Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran. Hussein Banai (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 174 pp. Hardcover $99.99. ISBN 97811084955920
John Renard. Rumi: A Life in Pictures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.0
Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ghiabi Maziyar, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1108475457 (hbk), 360 pp.0
Diplomatie nippo-iranienne: Enjeu énergétique et interférences américaines: Concilier l’inconcili0
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 Proverbial Wisdom of a Georgian Language Island in Iran0
IRN volume 55 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
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
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
Final /n/ Deletion in Ghayeni Persian: Opacity in Harmonic Serialism and Parallel Optimality Theory0
Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry. Domenico Ingenito (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 697 pp.0
Hurufism: The Faḍlallāh Family, Children, and Testament0
Editor's Note0
Writing in Turbulent Times. Introduction to the Roundtable on the 2022–23 Iranian Protests0
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 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
Not By Archives Alone: The “Revolution” in Soviet Central Asian Literary Studies0
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
Sanāʾi’sHadiqat al-haqiqeh: Between Narrative and Non-narrative0
Obituary0
From Iran to the Netherlands, and everywhere in between0
Kermanshah City and Province, Willem Floor, Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2018, ISBN 978-949445-00-8 (hbk), 591 pp., 60 illus.0
The Nature of Legitimacy: Representations of the Natural World in Iskandar Beg Munshi’sTārīkh-e ʿĀlam-ārā-ye ʿAbbāsī0
Tribes and Smugglers in Iran's Eastern Borderlands, 1921–410
Historical Cognition and the Taxonomy of Sources0
IRN volume 56 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
The Metaphorical Use of Body Parts in Forming Counting expressions: Evidence from Tāti Language Group0
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
The Neo-Aramaic Dialects of Iran0
In Memoriam: Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti (26 November 1938–19 September 2020): Teacher, Author, and Scholar of Islamic and Iranian Studies0
Students for Freedom and Equality: The Inevitable Return of the Left in Post-Revolutionary Iran0
From Quasi-Vegetarians to Quasi-Carnivores: The Changing Diet of Iranians0
Editor's Note0
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
Endangered Iranian Languages: Language Contact and Language Islands in Iran0
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
Recent Titles in Iranian Studies0
Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies: Essays in Memory of Hossein Ziai, Ali Gheissari, J0
Persian Historiography Across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, Sholeh Quinn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108842211 (hbk), 250 pp.0
Translator as Historical Re-Narrator: The Case of the Persian Translation of Clements Markham's History of Persia0
The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands (Collected Studies in Three Vo0
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
Falling Out of Love with the Franks: The Life and Writings of an Armenian Catholic Diplomat in the Service of Late Safavid Persia0
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
Second-Generation Iranian Zoroastrians in a New American Homeland: A Case Study in California0
Ctesias’ Persica and Its Near Eastern Context, Waters Matt, Madison: University of Wisconsin 0
Race, Slavery and Domesticity in Late Qajar Chronicles0
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
Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin before Nationalism. Mana Kia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 336. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036119550
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 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
Saljuq Architecture in Iran: The Friday Mosque of Urmiya0
Unveiling Men: Modern Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Iran (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East), DeSouza Wendy, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-0-8156-30
Editor’s Note0
Political Convergence, Surpluses of Activism, and Genealogy: Examining Iran's Quasi-Revolutionary Situation0
Traces of Pharyngeal Consonants in Isfahani Persian: A Case of Language Contact0
A Linguistic Survey of Khorasan: Implications for Language Isolation, Language Change, and Contact Linguistics0
Two Raji Dialects Converge with Persian: Contrasting Responses to Contact Influence0
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
ReFocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad. Maryam Ghorbankarimi (ed.) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). ISBN 978-1474477635 (eBook), 265 pp.0
And the Master Answered?: Deferrals of Authority in Contemporary Sufism in Iran0
Slavery and Empire in Central Asia, Jeff Eden, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-108-47051-3 (hbk), 227 pp.0
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
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
Khalil Mostowfi (b. Tabriz, 1941–d. Tehran, 20 February 2020): Bookseller, Assessor of Manuscripts, Lithographs, and Rare Titles in Iranian Studies0
IRN volume 55 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Revolt with a Revolutionary Perspective0
Obituary – ERRATUM0
Recasting American and Persian Literatures: Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch, Amirhossein Vafa, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, ISB0
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
Traveling through an Ocean of Wonders: Muḥammad RabīʿsSafīna-yi Sulaymānīand Southeast and East Asian Geography0
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
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
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
Bert G. Fragner0
Iranian Women & Gender in the Iran-Iraq War, by Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 457 pages.0
The Hero of “the Noble Afshar People”: Reconsidering Nader Shah's Claims to Lineage and Legitimacy0
The Reluctant Warrior: Semiotic Notes on the Story of Zāl in theShāhnāmeh0
Habib Ladjevardi, 1938–20210
Art of Protest in Five Acts0
Abdullah Ghouchani (b. Baghdad, 11 August 1948, d. Tehran, 7 August 2020): Epigrapher, Expert in Med0
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
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
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
Lives of the Prophets: The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru’s “Assembly of Chronicles,” Mohamad 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
“The Shah's House Became the People's House”: Narrating Iran's Modern History at the Pahlavi Dynasty Museum0
Narrative Geometry in ʿAli Reza Gholami’sDivar(The Wall): New Developments in Iranian War Literature0
Women’s Writing in Action: On Female-authored Hajj Narratives in Qajar Iran0
Editorial Foreword0
Editor's Note0
The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination Rebecca Ruth Gould (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). 312 pp. Hardcover, $95.33. ISBN 97814744840150
Letting Live in Revolutionary Iran0
Writing Capitalism into Iran: A Roundtable Discussion0
Persian Interventions: The Achaemenid Empire, Athens and Sparta, 450-386 BCE, John O. Hyland,0
Farvi: An Iranian Language in Kavir Desert0
Soft Epiphanies: The Multilayered Narratives in Abbas Kiarostami's Film Close-Up (1990)0
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 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
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 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
Drifting toward Revolution: Kurt Scharf and the dah shab in Tehran0
Religious Modernism in Pre-University Schools: The Case of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s Iran0
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway, Mikiya Koyagi, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781503613133 (hbk), 296 pages.0
“We Deserve Better”: Ideologies of Deservingness and Status in the Interpretation of Chinese Goods in an Iranian Bazaar0
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700–1900. Kevin L. Schwartz (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Pp. 233. $100.00 hardcover. ISBN 97814744508430
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
IRN volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Persian Studies in India and the Colonial Universities, 1857–19470
The Poet Nefʿī, Fresh Persian Verse, and Ottoman Freshness0
Special Issue: Parsis and Iranians in the Modern Period0
Adab and Modernity: A “Civilising Process”? (Sixteenth–Twenty-First Century), Catherine Mayeu0
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
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
Forlorn Arabs and Flying Americans: National Identity in the Early Childhood Curriculum of Postrevolutionary Iran, 1979–20090
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
From Worker-Peasant to Reluctant Revolutionary Industrial Worker in the Establishment of Iran's Copper Industry: The Sarcheshmeh Copper Mine, 1960s–1970s0
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
“Betrayed into the Hands of the Enemy”: The 1795–96 Russian Investigation of the Death of Hedayat-Allah Khan of Gilan0
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
Recent Titles in Iranian Studies0
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
Sarāghāz-e Pezeshkinegāri-ye Matbu?āti, be Enzemām-e Nashriyeh-hā-ye Tebbiye Iran Zamāneh-ye Qajar (Beginnings of Medical Journalism in Iran: Medical Periodicals in the Qajar period), Qāsemi Sa0
Fārsīgraphy in Zoroastrian Middle Persian Manuscripts0
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
Review Essay0
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
IRN volume 55 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
A Soviet View on the Assassination of the Iranian Prime Minister, Haj ʻAli Razmara, in the Context of the Early Years of the Cold War0
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
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
Capitalist Lineages of Early Modern 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
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
Iranian Film and Persian Fiction, M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2016, ISBN 978-1568593418; paperback, xvi + 246 pp.0
IRN volume 55 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
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
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
The Guide to Knowledge: The Journal Rahbar-i Dānish and Its Role in Creating a Soviet Tajik Literature (1927–1932)0
The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran: An Archival and Photographic Adventure, Fatehra0
IRN volume 55 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Badr al-Zamān Qarib (b. Tehran, 23 August 1929, d. Tehran, 28 July 2020): Author and Translator, Lin0
The War between the Turks and the Persians: Conflict and Religion in the Safavid and Ottoman Worl0
An Oasis of Radicalism: The Labor Movement in Abadan in the 1940s0
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
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
Editorial’s Note0
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
Under the Waves: The Many Lives of Moniru Ravanipur's The Drowned0
Editor's Note0
Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History, Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-108-41851-5 (hbk), xv + 303 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
IRN volume 55 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
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
“Iranian Conditions: Health Problems and Medical Practices in the Words of the Staff of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1900–1950”0
“Islam Says We Are All Equal”: The Islamic Turn in Soviet Propaganda in Iran, 1921–250
“Don't Let the Boats Pass!” Neo-Elamite Grain Procurement in Times of Famine and Drought0
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
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
Studies in the History of Medicine in Iran, Floor Willem, Washington, DC, Mage Publishers, 2018, ISBN 978-1-933823-94-2 (hbk), vxi + 210 pp.0
Gianroberto Scarcia (11 March 1933—1 July 2018), Italian Iranologist0
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
Professor Daniel Tsadik: Obituary0
Occult Ecumenism: Maḥmūd Dihdār Shīrāzī's Unveiling Secrets as Exemplar of Timurid-Safavid Sunni-Shiʿi Science0
Shadow Performance in Iran0
Written Representation of Temporal Power in Safavid Material Culture0
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
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
“A Priest does not consider the toppling of the Shah as an option” The KGB and the revolution in Iran0
J. T. P. de Bruijn (1931–2023) The bird of Time completes its round0
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
IRN volume 56 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
David Morgan (1945–2019), Professor of Medieval Iran and Middle Eastern History0
Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran. Lior Sternfeld (California: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 208. $24.00 paperback. ISBN: 97815036136380
Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance. Michelle Langford (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Pp. xiv, 278 (hardcover). ISBN 97817807629820
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
Editorial Note0
The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny, Alireza Doostdar, Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018, 0
From Persianate Cosmopolis to Persianate Modernity: Translating from Urdu to Persian in Twentieth-Century Iran and Afghanistan0
As Seen from Bombay: An Iranian Zoroastrian Photo Album from the 1930s0
The Role of the Clergy in the Establishment and Consolidation of Pahlavi I (1925–1941)0
On the Road: The Life and Verse of Mir Zeyn al-Din ʿEshq, a Forgotten Eighteenth-Century Poet0
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
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