The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first books to explore the defining features of the Persianate world from a variety of historical perspectives.
This book offers a wide range of fresh and original contributions by a distinguished group of scholars. It will be recognized as a major scholarly publication by all those interested in Islamic and Ir
In Another Place: Identity, Space, and Transcultural Signification in Goli Taraqqi's Fiction, Goulia Ghardashkhani offers a close textual analysis of the short stories of Goli Taraqqi, a contemporary
In Memories of an Impossible Future: Mehdi Akhavan Sales and the Poetics of Time Marie Huber traces the quest for a modern language of poetry through different figurations of temporality in the works
Temoignages vecus et decrits en direct par deux diplomates francais sur la Perse avant, pendant, et apres le coup d’Etat de 1921, Georges Ducrocq (attache militaire) et Helene Hoppenot (epouse du char
This book presents a translation of Bertold Spuler’s groundbreaking work on the transformation of Iran from a Persian Zoroastrian Empire to a province of the Arab Muslim Empire to a land divided by a
In The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality, Denise Aigle presents the Mongol empire as a moment of contact between political ideologies, religions, cultures and languages, and, in terms of reciproc
The Pahlavi Widewdad (Videvdad), The Law (Serving to Keep) Demons Away, a fifth-century Middle Persian commentary on the Avestan Videvdad, describes regulations to prevent pollution in the perennial s
In Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th – 15th Century Tabriz, an international group of specialists investigate the role of Tabriz as one of the foremost centres of learning,
This collection of seven papers comparatively examines the hospital as social and scientific institution in India and Iran as it was transformed from being guided by the Avicenian tradition of medicin
The author identifies two aims in his introduction: "...to offer a multifaceted conception of Muharram rituality by demonstrating how various performative practices intricately interrelate with both d
This lovely collection of essays explores the rich and varied uses of metaphor and imagery in the works of a range of writers, and in the context of translation into non-Persian languages, including E
This is the previously unpublished early memoirs of C.J. Edmonds (1889-1979), a British Consular Officer first posted to the Iranian port of Bushehr and later posted to Mesopotamia with the outbreak o
The history of a short-lived splinter sect of Twelver Shi'ite Islam may seem esoteric and of interest only to specialists. However, MacEoin (Arabic and Islamic studies, Newcastle University) has writt
Essays explore the world of Michael of Rhodes, examining the historical context, thediscovery of his manuscript, and Michael's knowledge of mathematics, shipbuilding, navigation, andother topics.
