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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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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”5
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.4
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
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
Hurufism: The Faḍlallāh Family, Children, and Testament3
The Metaphorical Use of Body Parts in Forming Counting expressions: Evidence from Tāti Language Group2
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
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
Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran. Hussein Banai (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 174 pp. Hardcover $99.99. ISBN 97811084955922
Under the Waves: The Many Lives of Moniru Ravanipur's The Drowned2
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists. Wazhmah Osman, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 20202
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 97815017759492
The Prince and the Sufi: The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies, Dalia Yasharpour (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021). 317 pp. € 146.59. ISBN: 978-90-04-44274-0.2
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 Hero of “the Noble Afshar People”: Reconsidering Nader Shah's Claims to Lineage and Legitimacy2
The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry: Politics of Poetic Experimentation. Farshad Sonboldel (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). 232 pages. $120. ISBN: 97887651036091
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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
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
Naderid Iran's Statehood, Territoriality, Status, and Diplomatic Capacity on Ottoman Scale: 1723-17481
“The Shah's House Became the People's House”: Narrating Iran's Modern History at the Pahlavi Dynasty Museum1
Kermanshah City and Province, Willem Floor, Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2018, ISBN 978-949445-00-8 (hbk), 591 pp., 60 illus.1
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Not By Archives Alone: The “Revolution” in Soviet Central Asian Literary Studies1
“I'd rather be married to someone I can control”: Female Javānmardī in Gulbadan Begum's Humayunnamah as a Mirror for Princesses1
In Memoriam: Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti (26 November 1938–19 September 2020): Teacher, Author, and Scholar of Islamic and Iranian Studies1
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
The Security-Development Nexus and the Jina Mahsa Amini Protests in Iran's Border Provinces1
Completing the Persianate Turn1
Kurdish Bildungsroman and Its Historical and Social Concerns: The Case of Sayyed Qadir Hedayati1
Telling a Different Story: Redeployment of the Narrative Alexander Tradition in a Medieval PersianDāstān1
Political Convergence, Surpluses of Activism, and Genealogy: Examining Iran's Quasi-Revolutionary Situation1
Iranian Women & Gender in the Iran-Iraq War, by Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 457 pages.1
Between Rebellion and Obedience: The Making of Docile Revolutionary Children in Post-Revolutionary Iran’s Keyhān-e Bachcheh-hā1
Translator as Historical Re-Narrator: The Case of the Persian Translation of Clements Markham's History of Persia1
Diachronic Development of the K-suffixes: Evidence from Classical New Persian, Contemporary Written Persian, and Contemporary Spoken Persian1
New Histories for the Age of Speed: The Archaeological–Architectural Past in Interwar Afghanistan and Iran1
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
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
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Marche Triomphale: A Forgotten Musical Tract in Qajar-European Encounters1
The Frontier Pushes Back: From Local Languages to Imperial Substrate(s) in Scribal Practices in 8th-century Central Asia1
The Role of the Clergy in the Establishment and Consolidation of Pahlavi I (1925–1941)1
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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
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
Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance. Michelle Langford (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Pp. xiv, 278 (hardcover). ISBN 97817807629820
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
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
Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia. James Pickett (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020). Pp. 301. $54.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97815017502430
From ritual to performance: Ta'zieh in Iran today0
Andre Godard and Maxime Siroux: Disentangling the Narrative of French Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Iran0
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
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Materiality of Traumatic Experience and the Limits of Representation in Hassan Bani Ameri's Gonjeshkha Behesht ra Mifahmand (Sparrows Understand Heaven)0
Writing in Turbulent Times. Introduction to the Roundtable on the 2022–23 Iranian Protests0
From Persianate Cosmopolis to Persianate Modernity: Translating from Urdu to Persian in Twentieth-Century Iran and Afghanistan0
Special Issue: Parsis and Iranians in the Modern Period0
Tribes and Smugglers in Iran's Eastern Borderlands, 1921–410
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700–1900. Kevin L. Schwartz (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Pp. 233. $100.00 hardcover. ISBN 97814744508430
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
To Tell Anew: Fresh Perspectives on Persian Narrative0
Recent Titles in Iranian Studies0
The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran. Ali Mirsepassi (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). 256 pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN 97813995114210
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
Ismāʿīl al-Qasṛī, Kubrawiyya, and Sufi Genealogies: “Deep-Dark Transmissions” in Medieval Iran0
Intertextuality and Subversion: Nezāmi in Modern Persian Literature0
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
Persianate Pasts; National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century0
Pictorial Modernity and the Armenian Women of Iran – CORRIGENDUM0
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
From Iran to the Netherlands, and everywhere in between0
The Postal System in Safavid, Afsharid, and Zand Iran0
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
Fārsīgraphy in Zoroastrian Middle Persian Manuscripts0
John Renard. Rumi: A Life in Pictures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.0
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
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
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
And the Master Answered?: Deferrals of Authority in Contemporary Sufism in Iran0
Representation of Aphrodite and Eros on Sasanian Clay Bullae: Evidence from the Fire Temple of Ādur Gušnasp at Takht-e Solaymān0
The Reluctant Warrior: Semiotic Notes on the Story of Zāl in theShāhnāmeh0
The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad. Hamid Dabashi (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), 334 pp.0
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
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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Monolingualism in Iran: The Politics of Writing in Azeri Turkish0
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
“Nowhere but Everywhere”: The Principle of Legality and the Complexities of Judicial Discretion in Iran0
Persian Historiography Across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, Sholeh Quinn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108842211 (hbk), 250 pp.0
Performative Diplomacy: Iran–Republic of China Relations, 1920–19490
Persian Studies in India and the Colonial Universities, 1857–19470
Yazd and its Zoroastrians0
Sedigheh Vasmaghi: A new voice of Iranian religious reformism0
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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
Letting Live in Revolutionary Iran0
Early Persian Verse Romances inMutaqārib: Form, Structure, Contents0
From Worker-Peasant to Reluctant Revolutionary Industrial Worker in the Establishment of Iran's Copper Industry: The Sarcheshmeh Copper Mine, 1960s–1970s0
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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Ḥakīm Zajjājī’s Humāyūn-nāmah: An Eye-Witness Account of Early Mongol Rule in Tabriz (1220–1258)0
Review Essay0
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
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
Students for Freedom and Equality: The Inevitable Return of the Left in Post-Revolutionary Iran0
The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation. Sohrab Sepehri. Translated by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Prashant Keshavmurthy (Leiden: Brill, 2022). 419 pp. ISBN 97890044723720
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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
Ottoman Policies Regarding Shah Ismāʿīl II as Seen through Ottoman Documents0
Tammarītu, “king of Ḫidalu,” Tammarītu, “king of Elam”0
Writing Capitalism into Iran through the International0
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
The Inception of Literary Criticism in Early Modern Pashto Writings0
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 Afghan Bachah and its Discontents: An Introductory History0
Afterword to Persianate Pasts, National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century0
The Bābī-Bahā’ī Revolution in Iran – CORRIGENDUM0
Editor's Note0
Art of Protest in Five Acts0
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s New Population Policy and Recent Changes in Fertility0
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Disciplining Persian Literature in Twentieth-Century Afghanistan0
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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 Market in Poetry in the Persian World. Shahzad Bashir (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 88 pp. $20.00 paper. ISBN 97811089486470
Iran Protests and Patterns of State Repression0
The Poet Nefʿī, Fresh Persian Verse, and Ottoman Freshness0
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
Kindred Voices: A Literary History of Medieval Anatolia. Michael Pifer (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021). Pp. 320. $45.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97803002503980
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
The Ancient Iranian Perception of Cyrus the Great0
Ilkhanid Wood Carvings in the Mountain Villages between Kashan and Natanz0
Religious Modernism in Pre-University Schools: The Case of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s Iran0
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From Ethnic Nationalism to Cosmopolitan Mysticism: The Life and Works of Hossein Kazemzadeh Iranshahr (1884–1962)0
Power and Philanthropy: The Imperial Dimensions of Parsi Amelioration of the Iranian Zoroastrians0
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
The Isfahan Anthology Project0
Conflicting Worldviews: Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsāʾī’sRisālat al-Rashtīyahand the Problematic ofAkbarīanMysticism0
Judeo-Hamadani: The Language of Jews in Hamadan and Its Origins0
“Don't Let the Boats Pass!” Neo-Elamite Grain Procurement in Times of Famine and Drought0
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
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
Soviet Persian Anthologies: Transnational, Multinational, International0
ReFocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad. Maryam Ghorbankarimi (ed.) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). ISBN 978-1474477635 (eBook), 265 pp.0
J. T. P. de Bruijn (1931–2023) The bird of Time completes its round0
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
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran. Blake Atwood (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021). 252 pp. ISBN 97802625428450
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Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway, Mikiya Koyagi, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781503613133 (hbk), 296 pages.0
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 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 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
A Note on the Āl-i Burhān of Bukhara and the Author of the Laṭāʾif al-aḏkār0
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 A0
Emissaries of Enlightenment: Azeri Theater Troupes in Iran and Central Asia, 1906–440
Distinction and Survival: Zoroastrians, Religious Nationalism, and Cultural Ownership in Shiʿi Iran0
Capitalist Lineages of Early Modern Iran0
Canonization and sacred text in the Yārsān religion0
Zoroastrian Doctrine of Formation of Heavenly Bodies in Pahlavi Texts0
Hair and Hat Ritual Shaming Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Iran0
Remembering Revolution0
Re-considering Environmental Activism in Iran: Materiality and Social Histories of Nature0
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
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
Back to the Motherland? Parsi Gujarati Travelogues of Iran in the Qajar-Pahlavi Interregnum, 1921–19250
The Gharib Shah Rebellion of 16290
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
Occult Ecumenism: Maḥmūd Dihdār Shīrāzī's Unveiling Secrets as Exemplar of Timurid-Safavid Sunni-Shiʿi Science0
Saljuq Architecture in Iran: The Friday Mosque of Urmiya0
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Obituary – ERRATUM0
The Collapse of the Male Gaze in the Cinema of Bahram Beyzaie: The Crow and Maybe Some Other Time0
A Note on the Āl-i Burhān of Bukhara and the Author of the Laṭāʾif al-aḏkār - CORRIGENDUM0
Editor's Note0
Retranslation in Mughal South Asia: The Impressive Failure of a Persian Panchatantra0
Tohfeye Ziyarat (Souvenir of Pilgrimage): Religious Mobility and Public Health in Late Qajar Iran, c. 1890–19040
TheQalandarKing: Early Development of theQalandariyyātand Saljuq Conceptions of Kingship in Amir Moʿezzi's Panegyric for Sharafshāh Jaʿfari0
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Sites of Disremembering: Narrative Tactics of Remembering the Past in Qasr and Heshmatieh Neighborhoods of Tehran0
The Sultan's Life as a Tragedy? Zeyā al-Din Barani, Moʿezz al-Din Keyqobād, and the Performance ofTārikh0
Īhām, or the Technique of Double Meaning in Literature: Its Theory and Practice in the Twelfth Century0
Iranian Identity and National Oppression: Crafting the Modern Iranian Nation–State0
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
Transcendence between Expression and Secrecy: A Critical Cognitive Perspective on the Metaphorical Discourse of Yārsān Religion0
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
Familial Undercurrents: Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran. Afsaneh Najmbadi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022). pp. 162. $25.950
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 Foreign Trade of Tabriz: 1800-19000
Farvi: An Iranian Language in Kavir Desert0
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
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
Uncertain Cures: The Medical Marketplace in Pahlavi Iran0
Bert G. Fragner0
Observing Iran from Baku: Iranian Studies in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan0
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
Review of Maziar Behrooz - Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia0
dastanandtuwān, Adjectives or Nouns? A Discussion about Their Grammatical Category and Meaning in Middle Persian0
Scholarly Circles and the Transmission of Knowledge: Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (d. 1030/1621) and His Mobile Scholarly Circle in Safavid Iran0
A Firm Policy Decision: Infrastructural Form and Pahlavi Developmentalism at the Ahvāz Pipe Mill0
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Pictorial Modernity and the Armenian Women of Iran0
Kurdish Politics in Iran: Crossborder Interactions and Mobilisation since 1947. Allan Hassaniyan (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 236. Hardcover $110. ISBN 97813165164300
Shadow Performance in Iran0
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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Sufism vs. Monism in ʿAzīz-i Nasafī's Works0
Quiet Strength: Kurdish Women Kolbars and the Feminization of Poverty0
Women Reclaiming Their Voices for Life and Freedom: Music and the 2022 Uprising in Iran0
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“Islam Says We Are All Equal”: The Islamic Turn in Soviet Propaganda in Iran, 1921–250
Khomeini Kitsch: Material Cultures of the Iran Hostage Crisis0
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As Seen from Bombay: An Iranian Zoroastrian Photo Album from the 1930s0
The Armenian Community and Changing Iranian Perceptions of Minority0
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
A Capitalist Economy without Robust Capitalist Production0
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
Artificial Intelligence in Iran: National Narratives and Material Realities0
Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History, Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-108-41851-5 (hbk), xv + 303 pp.0
What is at Stake in the Frame Story? A Timurid Reshaping of the Romance of Bahrām Gūr0
“A Priest does not consider the toppling of the Shah as an option” The KGB and the revolution in Iran0
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
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
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
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 Persian Novel: Ideology, Fiction, and Form in the Periphery, Omid Azadibougar, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014, ISBN 978-90-420-3884-4 (pbk), 241 pp.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
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Soundwaves of Dissent: Resistance Through Persianate Cultural Production in Afghanistan0
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
“Rich Fields in Persia”: Parsi Capital and the Origins of Economic Development in Pahlavi Iran, 1925–19410
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare. Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024). 197 pp. Paperback $24. IS0
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Taqi Erāni, Bizhan Jazani, and a Marxian Framework for the Critique of Religion in Twentieth Century Iranian Political Thought0
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
Drifting toward Revolution: Kurt Scharf and the dah shab in Tehran0
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
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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