Iran

This study contributes to the history of social changes in Iran during the Abbasid Caliphate (AH 132-656, AD 750-1258) by foregrounding the perspective of Persian language historians - from Abu Ali Bal'ami (AH 363, AD 974), the first known Persian...

Iran and a French Empire of Trade examines the understudied topic of Franco-Persian relations in the long eighteenth century to highlight how rising tensions among Eurasian empires and revolutions in the Atlantic world were profoundly intertwined...

Early twentieth-century Iran had been dominated by the competing influences of the two great imperial powers of the time - Russia and Britain - making it difficult for a third power to establish a foothold. But an emergent, highly industrialised and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283674Author Reza TabandehFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is an original historiographic examination of the idea of freedom in early modern Iran within a larger context of the formation of modern Muslim thought. The study develops an appropriate method for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087282622Author Marjan AfsharianFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

What is the nature of intellectual activity in the Middle East, and what is its role in politics and society? While much scholarly attention has been given to the intelligentsia in the West, a comprehensive analysis of the social role of intellectuals in...

Now more than ever the role of icons and monuments in shaping a national identity is a subject of vital importance to scholars of both nationalism and memory studies. While the nation-state undoubtedly has a powerful influence on a society's cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283483Author Hans de BruijnFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlevi, the last Shah of Iran, remains relevant today. He was a social reformer, a romantic egomaniac, and a deeply conflicted man and leader. Here, internationally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922581Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)...

An authoritative account of how and why the Islamic Republic has survived to become a critical player in the Middle East and the worldWhen Iranians overthrew their monarchy, rejecting a pro-Western shah in favor of an Islamic regime, many observers...

Reza Shah's authoritarian and modernising reign transformed Iran, but his rule and Iran's independence ended in ignominy in 1941. In this book, Shaul Bakhash tells the full story of the Anglo-Soviet invasion which led to his forced abdication, drawing...

Hostile relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia are partially responsible for the political instability plaguing the Middle East. This book argues that rapprochement between Tehran and Riyadh is possible and it sets out a realistic agenda for managing...

The Ossetes, a small nation inhabiting two adjacent states in the central Caucasus, are the last remaining linguistic and cultural descendants of the ancient nomadic Scythians who dominated the Eurasian steppe from the Balkans to Mongolia for well over...

After the destructive decades following the fall of the Safavid Empire, the Qajar dynasty inherited a weakened state and the growing threat of European imperial powers, culminating in two wars with Russia. In this book, Maziar Behrooz provides a history...

Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew about. In Familial Undercurrents, Najmabadi uncovers her family's complex experiences of polygamous marriage...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Iran's particular system of traditional Persian art music has been long treated as the product of an ever-evolving, ancient Persian culture. In Music of a Thousand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949445640Author Goli Akbar KashaniFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949445398Author D T PottsFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 477g

This book comprises a study of music in Iran from the Timurid period in the fifteenth century up until the end of the Qajar period at the beginning of the twentieth century. It examines many aspects of music making in this span of time including centres...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399573347Author Laura SecorFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The edited volume Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore re-contextualizes Cyrus's foundational act and epoch in light of recent scholarship, while examining his later reception in antiquity and beyond. Among the many themes addressed in the volume are: the...

This book presents a comprehensive, detailed analysis of the establishment, evolution and current significance of different institutions in today's Islamic Republic of Iran. The volume draws on the insights of a number of Iran experts to examine their...

Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts and talismans. With these family collections, Kathryn Babayan tells a new history of the city at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933823669Author M Floor WillemFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706301Author Robin WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 326gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Following the 1979 revolution, the Iranian government set out to Islamize society. Muslim piety had to be visible, in personal appearance and in action. Iranians were told to pray, fast, and attend mosques to be true Muslims. The revolution turned...

Iran'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...

Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf in the south. Iran's first national railway, it produced and disrupted various kinds of...

Using newly-uncovered private papers, as well as public and private archives in three countries, this book tells the definitive history of the first discovery of oil in Iran - the first discovery of oil in the Middle East. Exploring the formal and...

A memoir of life in Iran in the tumultuous years leading up to the 1979 revolution'Offers an intimate window onto the Iranian revolution just when we need to be thinking about it the most' - Marjane Satrapi, writer and film director Recounts the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944942021Author Ncri- U S Representative OfficeFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint National Council of Resistance of Iran-Us OfficePublisher National...

Beginning 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 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...

Iran's presidents have defined the Islamic Republic's attitudes towards the rest of the world. Never has this been more true than now. In this book Siavush Randjbar-Daemi presents an in-depth analysis of the evolution of the Iranian presidency from its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922284Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949445428Author Dr Willem FloorFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage Publishers

Cooperation between Iran and Russia has expanded to unprecedented levels. Following the Russian offensive in Ukraine, their partnership has undergone a significant transformation, altering power dynamics and elevating Iran from a junior partner to an...