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The Cypress Tree by Kamin Mohammadi
RRP: £12.99£9.09_______________ 'A memoir to inspire' - Aminatta Forna 'I cannot recommend this book highly enough' - Nassim Assefi, author of Aria 'Fascinating insight on a topic much discussed but rarely understood from a human perspective. Recommended... -
Farsi (Persian)-English / English-Farsi (Persian) Dictionary& Phrasebook by Nicholas Awde
RRP: £10.99£8.29Farsi is the official language of Iran, where over 67 million people speak its standard form. This phrase book and dictionary contains all the essential aspects of the language, detailing the alphabet and grammar, as well as listing a number of... -
Armies of the Iran-Iraq War 1980-88 by Stephen Walsh
RRP: £14.99£10.95Driven by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the insecurities it provoked in Saddam Hussein's Iraqi dictatorship, the Iran-Iraq War would become the largest conventional conflict of the period. Curiously little-known considering its scale and longevity,... -
Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and the Narratives of the Enlightenment by Ali Ansari 9781909942912
RRP: £65.00£61.67The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 opened the way for enormous change in Persia, heralding the modern era and creating a model for later political and cultural movements in the region. Broad in its scope, this multidisciplinary volume brings together... -
A Short History of the Mughal Empire by Michael Fisher
RRP: £14.99£14.34The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of... -
Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, from Persia to the Islamic Republic, from Cyrus to Ahmadinejad by William R. Polk 9780230103436
RRP: £13.99£9.70William R. Polk provides an informative, readable history of a country which is moving quickly toward becoming the dominant power and culture of the Middle East. A former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, Polk describes a country... -
Iran, Islam and Democracy - The Politics of Managing Change by Ali M. Ansari 9781909942981
£30.09Current developments in Iran are forcing a fundamentalreassessment of the relationship between Islam and democracyand the processes of democratization in the Muslim world.While some scholars have argued that 'Islam' and 'democracy'are essentially... -
The Great Famine & Genocide in Iran: 1917-1919 by Mohammad Gholi Majd 9780761861676
RRP: £35.00£30.95At least 8-10 million Iranians out of a population of 18-20 million died of starvation and disease during the famine of 1917-1919. The Iranian holocaust was the biggest calamity of World War I and one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, yet it... -
Land of the Turquoise Mountains by Cyrus Massoudi
RRP: £11.99£9.08A compelling personal journey of discovery, illuminating the Iran that lies beyond the headlines. For Cyrus Massoudi, a young British-born Iranian, the country his parents were forced to flee thirty years ago was a place wholly unknown to him. Wanting... -
Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran by Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar
RRP: £25.00£19.59Since the 1979 revolution, scholars and policy makers alike have tended to see Iranian political actors as religiously driven-dedicated to overturning the international order in line with a theologically prescribed outlook. This provocative book argues... -
Erin and Iran: Cultural Encounters Between the Irish and the Iranians by H. E. Chehabi 9780674088283
RRP: £20.95£16.88In Erin and Iran, ten essays by North American and European scholars discuss parallel themes in and interactions between Irish and Iranian cultures. In the first section three essays explore common elements in pre-Christian Irish and pre-Islamic Iranian... -
An Arabian Journey: One Man's Quest Through the Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
RRP: £12.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802148858Author Levison WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat -
The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran by Golnar Nikpour 9781503637634
RRP: £24.99£21.67Iran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned persons at the turn of the twentieth century into a modern... -
Operation Eagle Claw 1980 by Justin Williamson
RRP: £13.99£9.75Following months of negotiations after the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979, President Jimmy Carter ordered the newly formed Delta Force to conduct a raid into Iran to free the hostages. The raid, Operation Eagle Claw, was risky to... -
They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents by Neda Toloui-Semnani
RRP: £8.99£6.13From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and the tumultuous history of two nations. In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani's parents left the United States... -
An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville by Reza Aslan
RRP: £23.99£20.51Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a two-year stint teaching English and preaching the gospel... -
The Political History of Modern Iran: Revolution, Reaction and Transformation, 1905 to the Present Ali Rahnema (American University of Paris, France) 9780755643998
RRP: £23.99£21.08From the rise of constitutionalism during the rule of despotic Qajars, foreign invasions, the Pahlavi regimes' destructive politics, economic, cultural and social modernization efforts and the oil nationalization movement, to the Iranian Revolution, its... -
Women, Life, Freedom: Our Fight for Human Rights and Equality in Iran by Nasrin Sotoudeh 9781501776106
RRP: £6.99£6.33The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the United States or around... -
Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran by Medea Benjamin
RRP: £12.99£8.63U.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the Trump Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century activists, offers the incredible history of how a probable alliance... -
Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Michael Axworthy
RRP: £10.99£7.77Since the beginning of recorded history, Iran/Persia has been one of the most important world civilizations. Iran remains a distinct civilization today despite its status as a major Islamic state with broad regional influence and its deep integration... -
The Complete Persepolis: Volumes 1 and 2 by Marjane Satrapi 9780375714832
RRP: £19.99£16.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375714832Author Marjane SatrapiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 225mm... -
The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy by Henry Corbin 9781556432699
RRP: £16.99£11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556432699Author Henry CorbinFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Persian in Use: An Elementary Textbook of Language and Culture by Professor of Persian Anousha Sedighi
RRP: £75.00£72.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087282172Author Anousha SedighiFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press -
Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran by Parvaneh Pourshariati 9781784537470
RRP: £22.99£19.28I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire has been acclaimed as one of the most intellectually exciting books about late antique Persia to have been published for years. It proposes a... -
The Iran-Iraq War - Volume 4: Iraq'S Triumph by Tom Cooper 9781911512455
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512455Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World by Reza Zarghamee
RRP: £55.00£49.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933823935Author Reza ZarghameeFormat HardbackPage Count 728Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 1395g -
Memories of a Bygone Age - Qajar Persia and Imperial Russia 1853-1902 by Prince Arfa 9781909942868
RRP: £30.00£29.49Set against the backdrop of Iran s struggle against the rising powers of Russia and Britain, the memoirs of Mirza Riza Khan Arfa -ed-Dowleh otherwise known as Prince Arfa (1853 1902) are packed with picaresque adventures as the prince tells the story of... -
The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran by Said Amir Arjomand 9780195042580
RRP: £18.49£13.29This comprehensive history of the Iranian Revolution views it in the context of an ongoing conflict between religious and political authorities dating back to the establishment of Shi'ism as the state religion of Iran in 1501. The historical context is... -
Concealed by Esther Amini 9780990619420
RRP: £20.00£13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990619420Author Esther AminiFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Greenpoint PressPublisher Greenpoint PressWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Shah's Imperial Celebrations of 1971: Nationalism, Culture and Politics in Late Pahlavi Iran by Robert Steele
RRP: £22.99£22.85In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Dozens of heads of state descended on Persepolis for these Celebrations, where they... -
A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East by Richard Foltz 9780755649648
£75.12In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the... -
A History of Iran by Michael Axworthy 9780465098767
RRP: £19.99£12.15Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran's religious culture encompasses the most censorious and dogmatic Shi'a Muslim clerics in the world, yet its... -
Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires: The Idea of Iran Vol. 10 by Charles Melville
RRP: £26.99£23.84The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the establishment of the new Safavid regime in Iran. Along with reuniting the Persian lands under one rule, the Safavids initiated the radical transformation of the religious landscape by introducing Imami... -
The Fate of Third Worldism in the Middle East: Iran, Palestine and Beyond by Rasmus C. Elling 9780861547289
RRP: £30.00£20.95In the latter half of the twentieth century, a revolutionary idea promised to upend the global order. Anti-imperialist militancy, bolstered by international solidarity, would lead to not only the national liberation of oppressed peoples but universal... -
A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East Richard Foltz (Concordia University, Canada) 9780755649655
RRP: £25.99£21.22In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the... -
The Nasirean Ethics (RLE Iran C) by Nasīr ad Dīn Tūsi 9781032547091
RRP: £31.99£28.73The Nasirean Ethics is the best known ethical digest to be composed in medieval Persia, if not in all mediaeval Islam. It appeared initially in 633/1235 when Tusi was already a celebrated scholar, scientist, politico-religious propagandist. The work has... -
The Modern Middle East: A History by James L Gelvin
RRP: £51.99£51.80Extensively revised and updated in this fifth edition, The Modern Middle East explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region over the course of the past 500 years... -
Pahlavi Iran in the Global 1960s and 1970s by Roham Alvandi 9781909942189
RRP: £30.00£29.49The reign of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979), marked the high-point of Iran's global interconnectedness. Never before, nor ever since, have Iranians felt the impact of global political, social, economic, and cultural forces so... -
The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy & the Cold War, 1951–1954 by David S. Painter 9781469671666
RRP: £32.95£30.05Beginning with the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry in spring 1951 and ending with its reversal following the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in August 1953, the Iranian oil crisis was a crucial turning point in the global Cold... -
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian by Omar Khayyam
RRP: £23.99£20.94A repository of subversive, melancholic and existentialist themes and ideas, the rubaiyat (quatrains) that make up the collected poems attributed to the 12th century Persian astronomer Omar Khayyam have enchanted readers for centuries. In this modern...