Censorship of Literature in PostRevolutionary Iran
Edited by Charles Melville, University of Cambridge, UK
Alireza Abiz, Independent Scholar
Idea of Iran Vol. 11
This volume explores the troubled eighteenth century in Iran, between the collapse of the Safavids and the establishment of the new Qajar dynasty. Despite the striking military successes of Nader Shah, in defeating the Afghan invaders, driving back the Ottomans in the west, and launching campaigns into India and Central Asia, Iran steadily lost territory in the Caucasus and the east, where Persian arms failed to recover lands lost to the Afghans and the Ozbeks. The book examines the art and primary evidence from the period to illuminate and document the changes of Iran's internal conditions and international situation. Published in association with the Soudavar Memorial Foundation UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 272 pages • 16 colour illus PB 9780755645961 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9780755645992 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9780755645978 • £22.49 / $29.96 ePdf 9780755645954 • £22.49 / $29.96 Series: The Idea of Iran • I.B. Tauris
Politics and Culture since 1979
In this pioneering study, Alireza Abiz offers an indepth, interdisciplinary analysis of how censorship and the political order of Iran have influenced contemporary Persian literature, both in terms of content and tone. As censorship is unrecorded and not officially acknowledged in Iran, the author has examined newspaper records and conducted firsthand interviews with Iranian poets and writers, looking into the ways in which poets and writers attempt to subvert the codes of censorship by using symbolism and figurative language to hide their more controversial messages. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages PB 9780755634941 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784538071 ePub 9780755634927 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755634910 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran
Persian Petroleum
Erika Friedl, Western Michigan University, USA
Leonardo Davoudi, LSE, UK
Theology, Saints, People
About ninety percent of people in Iran and nearly everybody in Boir Ahmad are Muslims of the Twelver Shia group. However, studies of tribal people’s religiosity, beliefs and rituals are scarce, and many researchers have discounted their views and experience, regarding the tribes as only 'nominally religious' because their practices do not fit in with the mainstream practices and ideas in Iran. Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran corrects this view and provides a hallmark study of tribal people’s religiosity demonstrating the great diversity of their philosophical and religious ideas. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 200 pages • 12 b/w illustrations PB 9780755636570 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780755616732 ePub 9780755616749 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755616756 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq
M I D D L E E A S T S T U D I E S - Iran / Iraq
The Contest for Rule in Eighteenth-Century Iran
Oil, Empire and Revolution in Late Qajar Iran 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 informal dealings of politicians, investors, civil servants and intermediaries Leonardo Davoudi charts the development of Persian petroleum from uncertain beginnings to becoming one of Britain’s largest oil companies with the British government as its principal shareholder. Assessing the relationship between economic and political forces within the British empire and the relationship of foreign economic forces and domestic political forces in Persia, the book also explores the role of intermediation, informal empire, the Anglo-Russian rivalry over Persia, British naval developments and Persian political developments. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9780755636853 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781838606848 ePub 9781838606862 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781838606879 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
Political Factions and the Ruling Elite
Zana Gulmohamad, University of Sheffield, UK Based on dozens of interviews with senior officials and politicians, this book analyses how the sovereign federal government of Iraq and the nonsovereign Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have functioned and worked together since the U.S-led invasion in 2003. The ruling elites and political factions in Baghdad and Erbil are shown to create foreign policies according to their agendas. Yet Zana Gulmohamad places this incoherent model of foreign policy making in the context of the country’s fragmented political and social context, and the events of the wider region. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 216 pages PB 9780755637515 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781838604974 ePub 9781838604998 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781838604981 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
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