IRAN NEW BOOKS 2014
Iran 2014
ANCIENT HISTORY
THE IDEA OF IRAN SERIES PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SOUDAVAR FOUNDATION
THE AGE OF THE GREAT SELJUQS
NEW
The Idea of Iran,Vol. 6
Edited by Edmund Herzig and Sarah Stewart From their ancestral heartland by the shores of the Aral Sea, the medieval Oghuz Turks marched westwards in search of dominion. Their conquests led to control of a Muslim empire that united the territories of the eastern Islamic world, melded Turkic and Persian influences and transported Persian culture to Anatolia. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the new Turkic-Persian symbiosis that had earlier emerged under the Samanids, Ghaznavids and Qara-Khanids came to fruition in a period that, under the enlightened rule of the Seljuq dynasty, combined imperial grandeur with remarkable artistic achievement. This latest volume in The Idea of Iran series focuses on a system of government based on Turkic ‘men of the sword’ and Persian ‘men of the pen’ that the Seljuqs (famous foes of the Crusader Frankish knights) consolidated in a form that endured for centuries. The book further explores key topics relating to the innovative Seljuq era, including: conflicted Sunni-Shi’a relations between the Sunni Seljuq empire and Ismaili Fatimid caliphate; art, culture and ceramics; and poetry and architecture. 192 PAGES 234 X 156MM MAY 2014 978178076 947 9 HARDBACK £39.50 15 B&W INTEGRATED THE IDEA OF IRAN SERIES,VOL. 5 THE IDEA OF IRAN
BIRTH OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE
THE RISE OF ISLAM
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, British Museum, & Sarah Stewart, SOAS (Eds)
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis & Sarah Stewart (Eds)
The Idea of Iran,Vol. 1
160 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 062 8 HARDBACK £52.50 ILLUSTRATED THE IDEA OF IRAN SERIES,VOL. 1
THE AGE OF THE PARTHIANS The Idea of Iran,Vol. 2
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, British Museum, & Sarah Stewart, SOAS (Eds) 176 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 406 0 HARDBACK £52.50 THE IDEA OF IRAN SERIES,VOL. 2
The Idea of Iran,Vol. 4
128 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 691 0 HARDBACK £39.50 THE IDEA OF IRAN SERIES,VOL. 4
EARLY ISLAMIC IRAN The Idea of Iran,Vol. 5
Edmund Herzig and Sarah Stewart, SOAS (Eds) 304 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2011 HARDBACK 9781780760612 £39.50 THE IDEA OF IRAN SERIES,VOL. 5
THE SASANIAN ERA The Idea of Iran,Vol. 3
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, British Museum, & Sarah Stewart, SOAS (Eds) 192 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 690 3 HARDBACK £39.50 THE IDEA OF IRAN SERIES,VOL. 3
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ANCIENT HISTORY ANCIENT PERSIA IN WESTERN HISTORY NEW
MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN SASANIAN PERSIA NEW
Hellenism and the Re-presentation of the Achaemenid Empire
Sacred History and the Historiography of Ancient Iran
Sasan Samiei, UCL
The Achaemenid Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century, was at its height the largest empire the world had yet seen, stretching across Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Because this first Persian Empire fought a series of wars against the Ancient Greek city-states, it has often been cast in opposition to the Hellenistic cultures of the period. Ancient Persia in Western History is a measured rejoinder to the dominant narrative that considers the Graeco-Persian Wars to be merely the first round of an oft-repeated battle between the despotic ‘East’ and the broadly enlightened ‘West’. Sasan Samiei analyses the historiography which has skewed our understanding of this crucial era - contrasting the work of Edward Gibbon and Goethe, which venerated Classicism and Hellenistic history, with later writers such as John Linton Myres. Finally, Samiei explores the cross-cultural encounters which constituted the Achaemenid period itself, and repositions it as essential to the history of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. 320 PAGES 216 X 134MM JUNE 2014 9781780764801 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES
EVERLASTING FLAME
Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination
Sarah Stewart (Ed), SOAS
272 PAGES 289 X 235MM 2013 9781780768090 HARDBACK £45.00
THE PALACE OF DARIUS AT SUSA
The Great Royal Residence of Achaemenid Persia
Jean Perrot, late of CRNS
544 PAGES 300 X 230MM 2013 9781848856219 HARDBACK £60.00 530 COLOUR AND B&W
Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine
The Sasanian Empire was one of the most significant empires of late antiquity. As the dominant force in the Middle East, spanning Egypt, India and Mesopotamia, the Sasanian kings from Ardashir I (224CE) ruled an imperial, centrally administrated, multi-lingual state. Here,Touraj Daryaee shows how the idea of Iran - its attributes, mores, values, boundaries and traditions - was brought to the Zoroastrian, Jewish and Christian populations of the Sasanian Empire and accepted and internalized by these religious communities. By tracing the political accommodations reached in the the Sasanian court back to the Zoroastrian texts of the Avesta, Daryaee demonstrates why scholars, scribes and the state continued to emulate and propagate the memory of the Peshdadian, Kayanian and Sasanian empires - even into the Islamic period. Memory and Identity in Sasanian Persia will be an essential work for scholars of Iran, Zoroastrianism and those seeking to understand the history of Middle-Eastern antiquity. 224 PAGES 216 X 134MM NOVEMBER 2014 9781780762487 HARDBACK £52.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 44
THE WORLD OF ACHAEMENID PERSIA
John Curtis and St.John Simpson, British Museum 648 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2010 978 1 84885 346 1 HARDBACK £59.50 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
DECLINE AND FALL OF THE SASANIAN EMPIRE
The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran
Parvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State University
552 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 645 3 HARDBACK £45.00 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 10
THE CYRUS CYLINDER
The Great Persian Edict from Babylon
Edited by I.L. Finkel, British Museum
160 PAGES 246 X 189MM 2013 9781780760636 HARDBACK £35.00 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
HYMNS OF ZOROASTER
A New Translation of the Most Ancient Sacred Texts of Iran
SASANIAN PERSIA
The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Touraj Daryaee, University of California 256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850438984 HARDBACK £35.00 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION 32 B&W IN 16PP PLATES
With Introduction and Commentary by M.L. West, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford 200 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2010 9781848853478 HARDBACK £52.50 9781848855052 PAPERBACK £14.99 1 MAP
ZOROASTRIANISM An Introduction
Jenny Rose, Claremont Graduate University 288 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2010 9781848850873 HARDBACK £45.00 9781848850880 PAPERBACK £14.99 30 INTEGRATED B&W, 2 MAPS I.B.TAURIS INTRODUCTIONS TO RELIGION
Iran 2014
TEXTBOOK
ANCIENT PERSIA
Josef Wiesehöfer, University of Kiel 352 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 85043 999 8 PAPERBACK £14.99 ILLUSTRATED IN B&W
MEDIEVAL IRAN THE ILKHANID BOOK OF ASCENSION
EAGLE’S NEST
Christiane Gruber, Indiana University, Bloomington
Peter Willey
A Persian-Sunni Prayer Manual
Ismaili Castles in Iran and Syria
256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2010 978 1 84511 499 2 HARDBACK £56.00 10 COLOUR PLATES BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES,VOL. 2
352 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 85043 464 1 HARDBACK £25.00 ILLUSTRATED ISMAILI HERITAGE SERIES, I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES
THE ASSASSIN LEGENDS
TEXTBOOK
LOYALTY AND LEADERSHIP IN AN EARLY ISLAMIC SOCIETY
Myths of the Ismailis
Farhad Daftary, The Institute of Ismaili Studies
Roy P. Mottahedeh, Harvard University
224 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 85043 705 5 HARDBACK £59.50 978 1 85043 950 9 PAPERBACK £14.99
224 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 86064 181 7 PAPERBACK £16.99
THE FIRE, THE STAR AND THE CROSS
THE ORNAMENT OF HISTORIES: A HISTORY OF THE EASTERN ISLAMIC LANDS AD 650-1041
Minority Religions in Medieval and Early Modern Iran
Aptin Khanbaghi, University of Cambridge
The Persian Text of Abu Sa‘id ‘Abd al-Hayy Gardizi
288 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 056 7 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 5
Edmund Bosworth (Trans. and Ed.), University of Exeter 192 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2010 9781848853539 HARDBACK £51.50 BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES SERIES,VOL. 4
EARLY MODERN AND SAFAVID IRAN THE HISTORY OF THE LATE REVOLUTIONS IN PERSIA NEW
RITUAL CURSING IN IRAN
Theology, Politics and the Public in Safavid Persia
An Eyewitness Account of the Fall of the Safavid Dynasty
J.T. Krusinski Introduction by Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware
The fall of the powerful Safavid Dynasty (1501-1722) to invading Afghan tribesmen in 1722 marked a crucial turning point in the country’s history. Father Krusinski, Procurator-General of the Jesuit Mission and intermediary between the Papacy and the Safavid court, resided in Isfahan and was thus an eyewitness to the siege of the city. His account of the conditions and events preceding and during the siege and the subsequent demise of the Safavids is unique. It also offers key insights into the workings of the late Safavid state and government as well as the functions of the royal harem. This set includes the translation of the Clodius edition undertaken at the behest of the Ottoman Grand Vizier Damat Ibrahim. Together, these scarce volumes provide a unique source of information on late Safavid Persia. With an introduction by leading contemporary scholar, Rudi Matthee, the set will be welcomed by academics, collectors and libraries. 328, 288, 288 PAGES 234 X 156MM APRIL 2014 9781780764689 HARDBACK £250.00 3 VOLS
NEW
Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, University of Minnesota Duluth
Ritualized cursing had long been a part of popular culture in medieval and early modern Iran. When the Safavids seized power in 1501 and imposed Shi’i Islam as the established faith of the country, they appropriated the practice in the service of the state, compelling their subjects to curse ritually the first three (Sunni) caliphs in street and square - or face decapitation. Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson here demonstrates that in a largely oral society both the royal court and the emerging Shi’i religious establishment understood that controlling the medium meant controlling the message, and therefore society itself. Moreover, the ritual of public cursing also served the interests of the people. Because the new government could rely on a reservoir of shared cultural expression, it found willing participants among its subjects, for whom the practice became more than an act of compliance. With a new perspective on the transition from Sunni to Shi’i Iran, ‘Ritual Cursing in Iran’ is essential for all those interested in Safavid Iran and Islamic history, as well as the relationship of politics and religion in the public sphere. 304 PAGES 216 X 134MM APRIL 2014 9781848852921 HARDBACK £54.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 22
CONVERTING PERSIA
NEW EDITION Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire
Rula Abisaab, University of Akron, Ohio
As the divide between Shi‘i and Sunni Muslims has dominated headlines in recent years, never before has it been more essential to examine the historical roots of Shi‘ism’s establishment in Iran, the only country in the Middle East to have Shi ‘ism as its official religion. It was under the Safavids (1501-1736 CE) that this occurred, and in this book, Rula Abisaab explains how and why this specific brand of Shi‘ism was adopted. Urban and legally based, it was brought to the region by leading Arab ulama from Ottoman Syria, and has changed the face of the region until this day.These émigré scholars furnished distinct sources of legitimacy for the Safavid monarchs, and an ideological defense against the Ottomans. Just as important at the time was a conscious and vivid process of ‘Persianization’, both at the state level and in society. 256 PAGES 234 X 156MM JANUARY 2014 9781780767789 PAPERBACK £17.99
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EARLY MODERN AND SAFAVID IRAN THE MONETARY HISTORY OF IRAN From the Safavids to the Qajars
Rudi Matthee, University of Maryland Willem Floor and Patrick Clawson, Washington Institute for Near East Policy 320 PAGES 234 X 156MM SEPTEMBER 2013 9781780760797 HARDBACK £45.00
IRAN AND THE WORLD IN THE SAFAVID AGE
Willem Floor and Edmund Herzig, University of Oxford (Eds) 672 PAGES 234 X 156MM JULY 2012 9781850439301 HARDBACK £45.00 25 B&W, 25 LINE DRAWINGS I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 2
SHAH ABBAS
The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian Legend
David Blow
288 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845119898 PAPERBACK £14.99 8PP B&W PLATES AND 8PP COLOUR PLATES
THE SWORD OF PERSIA
Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant
Michael Axworthy, Exeter University 368 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 84511 982 9 PAPERBACK £14.99 ILLUSTRATED
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SAFAVID PERSIA
The History and Politics of an Islamic Society
Charles Melville (Ed.), University of Cambridge
PERSIA IN CRISIS
Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan
432 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 86064 086 5 PAPERBACK £22.50 PEMBROKE PERSIAN PAPERS
Rudi Matthee, University of Maryland
256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2011 9781845117450 HARDBACK £30.00 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 17
SLAVES OF THE SHAH THE PRACTICE OF POLITICS IN SAFAVID IRAN Power, Religion and Rhetoric
Colin P. Mitchell, Dalhousie University, Canada 304 PAGES 228 X 155MM JANUARY 2012 9781780760964 PAPERBACK £17.99
New Elites of Safavid Iran
Sussan Babaie, University of Michigan, Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan, Ina BaghdiantzMcCabe, Tufts University, & Massumeh Farhad, Smithsonian Institution
256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 86064 721 5 HARDBACK £56.00 LIBRARY OF MIDDLE EAST HISTORY, VOL. 3
SAFAVID IRAN
Rebirth of a Persian Empire
THE SAFAVID DYNASTIC SHRINE
Architecture, Religion and Power in Early Modern Iran
Andrew J. Newman, University of Edinburgh 296 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 830 3 PAPERBACK £17.99
Kishwar Rizvi, Yale University
256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2010 9781848853546 HARDBACK £52.50 20 B&W INTEGRATED, 16 COLOUR IN 16PP PLATES BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES,VOL. 5
QAJAR IRAN AND MODERN HISTORY PERCEPTIONS OF IRAN NEW
History, Myths and Nationalism from Medieval Persia to the Islamic Republic
Ali M Ansari, University of St Andrews
From the Sasanian to the Safavid Empire, and from Qajar Iran to the current Islamic Republic, the history of Iran is one which has been coloured by a rich tradition of myths and narratives and shaped by its wealth of philosophers, cultural theorists and political thinkers. Perceptions of Iran dissects the construction of Iranian identity, to reveal how nationalism has been continually re-formulated and how self-perceptions have been carried by Iran’s literary past, in particular the mystical love poetry of Rumi, Sa’adi and Hafez. It traces a long history of encounters with the Western world and tracks Iranian thought from Herodotus’ representation of Cyrus to the Constitutional Movement of the early twentieth century. This book ties together the diverse threads of Iranian intellectual activity that have underpinned social and political movements, from nineteenth-century discourses on a liberal nationalism to the anti-Westernism of figures such as Sayed Jamal Al-Afghani and Ayatollah Khomeini. 288 PAGES 234 X 156MM JULY 2013 9781848858305 HARDBACK £56.50 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES
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QAJAR IRAN AND MODERN HISTORY FORMING NATIONAL IDENTITY IN IRAN
NEW
The Idea of Homeland Derived from Ancient Persian and Islamic Imaginations of Place
Ali Mozaffari, University of Western Australia
Modern Iran is a country with two significant but competing discourses of national identity, one stemming from ancient pre-Islamic customs and mythology, the other from Islamic Shiite practices and beliefs. This has left an often confused notion of identity in Iran. Ali Mozaffari explores the complex processes involved in the formation of Iranian national identity, laying particular stress upon the importance of place to ideas of homeland and the creation of a collective national identity. He illustrates his arguments through an analysis of the ancient Achaemenid capital of Persepolis and the Shiite rituals of Moharram. In a concluding part, he extends his analysis to the Ancient Iran Museum and the Islamic Period Museum, housed in the National Museum of Iran. An important work that offers powerful insights into the forces shaping national identity in Iran. 256 PAGES 234 X 156MM NOVEMBER 2013 9781780764436 HARDBACK £56.00
IRAN BETWEEN ISLAMIC NATIONALISM AND SECULARISM
JEWISH IDENTITIES IN IRAN
Vanessa Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London
Mehrdad Amanat
The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 288 PAGES 234 X 156MM SEPTEMBER 2013 978178076663888 HARDBACK £56.50
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF IRAN UNDER THE QAJARS
Society, Politics and Foreign Relations 1799 to 1921
Hooshang Amirahmadi, Rutgers University
400 PAGES 234 X 156MM JUNE 2012 9781848856721 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,
Resistance and Conversion to Islam and the Baha’i Faith 256 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2010 9781845118914 HARDBACK £56.50 LIBRARY OF MODERN RELIGION,VOL. 9
THE FORGOTTEN SCHOOLS
The Baha’is and Modern Education in Iran, 1899–1934
Soli Shahvar, University of Haifa
304 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2009 978 1 84511 683 5 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 11
RELIGION, CULTURE AND POLITICS IN IRAN From the Qajars to Khomeini
THE BAHA’IS OF IRAN, TRANSCASPIA AND THE CAUCASUS
Joanna de Groot
320 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 86064 571 6 HARDBACK £59.50
VOLUME 1
Letters of Russian Officers and Officials
Soli Shahvar, Gad Gilbar and Boris Morozov (Eds) 288 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781848853911 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 26
PIVOT OF THE UNIVERSE
Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831– 1896
Abbas Amanat
THE BAHA’IS OF IRAN, TRANSCASPIA AND THE CAUCASUS
568 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 828 0 PAPERBACK £16.99 16 B&W PLATES AND 7 INTEGRATED B&W IMAGES
VOLUME 2
Reports and Correspondence of Russian Officials
Soli Shahvar, Gad Gilbar and Boris Morozov (Eds) 288 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781848853928 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 27
STATE AND SOCIETY IN IRAN
The Eclipse of the Qajars and the Emergence of the Pahlavis
Homa Katouzian, St Antony’s College, Oxford
THE BAHA’IS OF IRAN, TRANSCASPIA AND THE CAUCASUS TWO VOLUME SET
368 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 272 1 PAPERBACK £17.99 LIBRARY OF MODERN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, VOL. 28
Soli Shahvar, Gad Gilbar and Boris Morozov (Eds) 288+288 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781848854734 HARDBACK £105.00
IN THE SHADOW OF THE KING
Zill al-Sultan and Isfahan under the Qajars
Heidi Walcher, SOAS
528 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 85043 434 4 HARDBACK £51.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 9
IRAN’S CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION
Popular Politics, Cultural Transformations and Transnational Connections
H.E. Chehabi, Boston University and Vanessa Martin, Royal Holloway (Eds)
FOUNDATION
512 PAGES 234 X 156MM JUNE 2010 9781848854154 HARDBACK £59.50 34 INTEGRATED B&W INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 28 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE
KHANS AND SHAHS
A History of the Bakhtiyari Tribe in Iran
Gene R. Garthwaite, Dartmouth College 240 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2009 978 1 84885 096 5 PAPERBACK £17.99 ILLUSTRATED
DIPLOMACY AND MURDER IN TEHRAN
Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s Mission to the Shah of Persia
Laurence Kelly
336 PAGES 198 X 126MM 978 1 84511 196 0 PAPERBACK £12.99 TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
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QAJAR IRAN AND MODERN HISTORY IRAN: THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY 1941–1953
Fakhreddin Azimi, University of Connecticut 448 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2009 978 1 86064 980 6 PAPERBACK £16.99
IRAN IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Historiography and Political Culture
Touraj Atabaki (Ed.), University of Leiden 352 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2009 978 1 84511 692 1 HARDBACK £54.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 20
FRONTIER FICTIONS
Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
328 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 85043 2708 HARDBACK £65.00
MEN OF ORDER
Authoritarian Modernization Under Ataturk and Reza Shah
Touraj Atabaki & Erik J. Zurcher, both at University of Leiden (Eds) 296 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 86064 426 9 HARDBACK £59.50 LIBRARY OF MODERN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, VOL. 21
IRAN AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR Battleground of the Great Powers
Touraj Atabaki
240 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 86064 964 6 HARDBACK £56.50
IRAN AND THE RISE OF REZA SHAH
From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power
Cyrus Ghani
440 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 86064 258 6 HARDBACK £56.50 978 1 86064 629 4 PAPERBACK £17.99 ILLUSTRATED
AZERBAIJAN TEXTBOOK
Ethnicity and the Struggle for Power in Iran
Homa Katouzian
256 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 86064 554 9 PAPERBACK £17.99
MUSADDIQ AND THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN IRAN 328 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 86064 290 6 PAPERBACK £16.99
Touraj Atabaki
THE STATE AND THE SUBALTERN TEXTBOOK
REBELS WITH A CAUSE
The Failure of the Left in Iran
Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State University 264 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 86064 630 0 PAPERBACK £16.99 ILLUSTRATED
Modernization, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran
Touraj Atabaki (Ed)
272 PAGES 234 X 156 MM 978 1 84511 339 1 HARDBACK £57.50
THE SHAH AND I
The Confidential Diary of Iran’s Royal Court, 1968–77
THE QAJAR PACT
Bargaining, Protest and the State in NineteenthCentury Persia
Asadollah Alam
576 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 372 8 PAPERBACK £14.99
Vanessa Martin, Royal Holloway
224 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 85043 763 5 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 4
THE PERSIAN SPHINX THE ENGLISH AMONGST THE PERSIANS
Imperial Lives in Nineteenth-Century Iran
Denis Wright
240 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 86064 638 6 PAPERBACK £18.99
THE PERSIANS AMONGST THE ENGLISH Episodes in Anglo-Persian History
Denis Wright
288 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 85043 002 5 HARDBACK £59.50
Iran 2014
Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution
Abbas Milani
400 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 85043 328 6 HARDBACK £49.00
POLITICS AND CONTEMPORARY IRAN PERSIAN SERVICE
POLITICAL ISLAM IN POSTREVOLUTIONARY IRAN NEW
NEW
The BBC and British Interests in Iran
Annabelle Sreberny and Massoumeh Torfeh both at SOAS (Eds) Rumour and speculation in Iran have been rife for generations that the BBC has had a hand in every political upheaval in the country. In this vein the BBC has become a notable element in the complex and tortured narrative of Anglo-Iranian relations. The BBC Persian Service was initially developed in 1940 to prepare and broadcast British war-time propaganda. And it has since been seen by many in Iran as an integral part of British policy-making in the region. Those participating and organising the British-planned removal of Reza Shah in 1941, the CIA-led 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Musaddiq and the domestically inspired Iranian Revolution of 1978-79, have all at one time or another been accused of having links with the BBC. In this book, Annabelle Sreberny and Massoumeh Torfeh track the history of the BBC’s Persian Service, critically analysing both the assumptions that the corporation is a standard bearer for objective reporting and representations of it as a simple tool of Western interests. 224 PAGES 234 X 156MM JANUARY 2014 9781848859814 HARDBACK £40.00
EVERYDAY IRAN
Shi’i Ideologies in Islamist Discourse
Majid Mohammadi, Glenville State College, West Virginia
The relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Western World is fraught with challenges and tensions. In order to generate the capacity for greater engagement and dialogue, there is a need for the West to better understand the complex ideological developments that are central to Iran. Majid Mohammadi charts the central concepts and nuances of the ideological map of post-revolutionary Iran, and examines the rise and development of Shi’i Islamism. He recognises that the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iranian political discourse are the outcome of contesting perspectives and ideologies: identity-oriented, socialist, nationalist, authoritarian, Shari’a, scripturalist, mystical, militarist and fascist. This is a comprehensive, comparative contribution to one of today’s most important topics: that of the relationship between Political Islam and the West. 288 PAGES 216 X 134MM JULY 2013 9781848852761 HARDBACK £56.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 24
CONTROLLING IRAN
NEW
A Provincial Portrait of the Islamic Republic
Clarissa de Waal, University of Cambridge Iran is a country which, despite its extensive coverage in the media, is often regarded as ‘mysterious’, ‘exotic’ and ‘other-worldly’. This attitude often stems from a focus on the rhetoric of controversial figures in Iranian politics, rather than looking at the everyday lives of Iranians themselves. Clarissa de Waal uses her training as an anthropologist to examine the experiences of individuals, with a focus of the province of Fars in southwest Iran. This serves to highlight contemporary Iran outside of the capital, which so often dominates western understanding of the country. Using a wide range of subjects, from public sector workers and entrepreneurs to Qashqa’i tribes people (both settled and nomadic), students and the unemployed, de Waal examines the everyday existence Iran’s population from a variety of backgrounds. She offers analysis and insights concerning ordinary Iranians’ lives and the impact the state has on them economically, socially and religiously.
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The Struggle for Power in the Islamic Republic
Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, University of Manchester
In the wake of the election of Hassan Rouhani as President of Iran, and the expectations that have been heaped upon a potential opening of the country, the struggle for power in Iran has never before been so widely commented upon, and yet, at the same time, so little understood. Here, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi presents an in-depth analysis of the presidency of Iran from the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 to the present day. He examines the relationship of the presidency to the Supreme Leader: a position first held by Ayatollah Khomeini, and then by the former president, Ali Khameinei. 336 PAGES 216 X 135MM SEPTEMBER 2014 9781780765266 HARDBACK £25.00
256 PAGES 216 X 134MM JULY 2014 9781780769080, HARDBACK £56.00 7 B&W INTEGRATED INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES
CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN IRAN
NEW
Contemporary Popular Culture in the Islamic Republic
Annabelle Sreberny & Massoumeh Torfeh (Eds) both at SOAS The Islamic Republic of Iran has entered its fourth decade, and the values and legacy of the Revolution it was founded upon continue to have profound and contradictory consequences for Iranian life. Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, which negotiate and resist the system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address diverse areas of social and cultural innovation that are driving change and progress.While religious conservatism remains the creed of the establishment, this volume uncovers an underground world of new technology, communication, media and entertainment that speaks both to women seeking a greater public role and to a restless younger generation that organises and engages with global trends online. 288 PAGES 216 X 134MM JUNE 2013 9781780760896 HARDBACK £56.50
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POLITICS AND CONTEMPORARY IRAN THE IRAN CONNECTION
MODERNITY AND THE STATELESS NEW
NEW
Understanding the Alliance with Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas
The Kurdish Question in Iran
Amal Saad Ghorayeb
As Iran’s suspected nuclear ambitions place it on an apparent collision course with the western powers and the Arab Gulf states, understanding its regional alliances takes on a huge strategic importance. The Lebanese group Hizbullah, the Palestinian group Hamas and Bashar al Asad’s Syria are all critical players in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the puzzle of their relationship to their Iranian allies has confounded diplomats for many years. Would Hizbullah start a war on Israel’s northern border in the event of an Israeli air-strike on Iran? Can Syria be prised from the alliance? How will Hamas’s negotiating position evolve? Drawing on her unique access to decision-makers in Lebanon,Tehran and Damascus, Amal Saad Ghorayeb unpicks this unusual strategic bloc of secularists and Islamists, Arabs and Iranians, Sunni and Shia, and seeks to provide a rigorous analysis of its mechanics. The Iran Connection is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the real dynamics of today’s Middle East.
Abbas Vali, University of Bogazici The Kurds are the largest stateless nation in the world. They live under the jurisdiction of four sovereign states – Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria – which deny their national identity and suppress its political and cultural manifestations. The diversity that springs from this division has deprived the Kurds of ideological cohesion and political unity. Offering a wealth of new information on the history and politics of Kurdish nationalism, this book also looks at the wider issues of stateless nations, their identities, rights and obligations and the problems such nations pose for normative political theory which presupposes the framework of the modern nation state. 256 PAGES 216 X 134MM JULY 2014 9781860640506 HARDBACK £39.50 LIBRARY OF MODERN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, VOL. 26
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ARAB-IRANIAN RIVALRY IN THE PERSIAN GULF
NEW
Territorial Disputes and the Balance of Power in the Middle East
Farzad Cyrus Sharifi,
Kings College London Iranian ambitions in the Persian Gulf and rivalries with Arab neighbours are subject to intense – and heated – speculation, controversy and debate. Here, Farzad Cyrus Sharifi scrutinises the rival Arab-Iranian claims to Bahrain, the Shatt al-Arab waterway, and the Abu Musa and Tunbs islands in the years after World War II and before the Iranian revolution. Through investigation of previously unexamined primary materials and interviews with leading players, this book sheds new light on the evolution and dynamics of hegemonic and nationalistic Arab-Iranian rivalries and how these rivalries began to find symbolic expression through territorial disputes. Sharifi illustrates that these ongoing disputes – and the deep-seated 320 PAGES 216 X 134MM APRIL 2014 9781848858220 HARDBACK £59.50 11 B&W INTEGRATED, 1 MAP LIBRARY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS,VOL. 62
KHATAMI’S IRAN
The Islamic Republic and the Turbulent Path to Reform
Ghoncheh Tazmini, LSE
240 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2013 9781848851825 PAPERBACK £14.99
POLITICS OF CONFRONTATION
The Foreign Policy of the USA and Revolutionary Iran
Babak Ganji
328 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2011 9781848859647 PAPERBACK £25.00
NUCLEAR IRAN
KURDS AND THE STATE IN IRAN
David Patrikarakos
Abbas Vali, Bogaziçi University Istanbul
The Birth of an Atomic State 256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2012 9781780761251 HARDBACK £25.00
The Making of Kurdish Identity
224 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781848857889 HARDBACK £49.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 36
CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS WITH IRAN
Engaging Muslim Thinkers after the Revolution
Sasan Tavassoli
272 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781845117610 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 19
BLOGISTAN
The Internet and Politics in Iran
Annabelle Sreberny, SOAS and Gholam Khiabany, University of Westminster
240 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2010 9781845116064 HARDBACK £56.00 9781845116071 PAPERBACK £14.99 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 18
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POLITICS AND CONTEMPORARY IRAN KHOMEINI
TEXTBOOK
Baqer Moin, Former head of BBC’s Persian Service
The Geopolitics of the Caspian Region
Life of the Ayatollah
TROUBLED WATERS
352 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2009 978 1 84511 790 0 PAPERBACK £16.99
R. Hrair Dekmejian & Hovann H. Simonian, both at the University of Southern California 280 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 86064 922 6 PAPERBACK £18.99
AHMADINEJAD
DISTANT RELATIONS
Kasra Naji
H.E. Chehabi, Boston University
The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader
Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years
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ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY IN IRAN
KHATAMI AND GORBACHEV
Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform
Politics of Change in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the USSR
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, SOAS & Richard Tapper, University of London
Zhand Shakibi, LSE
400 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2010 978 1 8488 5 139 9 HARDBACK £65.00 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF POLITICAL STUDIES,VOL. 38
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IRAN AND THE RISE OF ITS NEOCONSERVATIVES
IRAN’S ECONOMY UNDER THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
Anoush Ehteshami & Mahjoob Zweiri, both at the
416 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 86064 104 6 PAPERBACK £18.99
Jahangir Amuzegar
The Politics of Tehran’s Silent Revolution
University of Durham 240 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 388 9 HARDBACK £25.00
REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY AND ISLAMIC MILITANCY
SYRIA AND IRAN
The Iranian Revolution and Interpretations of the Quran
Diplomatic Alliance and Power Politics in the Middle East
Najibullah Lafraie
Jubin Goodarzi, Webster University, Geneva
288 PAGES 2134 X 216MM 9781845110635 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 13
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ISLAM AND DISSENT IN POSTREVOLUTIONARY IRAN
Abdolkarim Soroush, Religious Politics and Democratic Reform
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
TRADE, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE
FIRM IN IRAN
The Impact of
Government Policy on Business
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Javad Amid and
Amjad Hadjikhani
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THE CONSTITUTION OF IRAN
SANCTIONING IRAN
Asghar Schirazi
Hossein Alikhani
IRAN OIL
THE ECONOMY OF IRAN
Roger Howard, New Statesman
Parvin Alizadeh (Ed.)
Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic 336 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 86064 253 1 PAPERBACK £19.99
The New Middle East Challenge to America 200 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 249 3 HARDBACK £20.00
Anatomy of a Failed Policy 448 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 86064 626 3 HARDBACK £65.00
The Dilema of an Islamic State 313 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 86064 464 1 HARDBACK £59.50
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POLITICS AND CONTEMPORARY IRAN IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA AND THE GULF
RELIGION AND WAR IN REVOLUTIONARY IRAN
Faisal bin Salman al-Saud
216 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 86064 407 8 HARDBACK £59.50
Power Politics in Transition
200 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 86064 881 6 HARDBACK £52.50
THE PRIEST AND THE KING
An Eyewitness Account of the Iranian Revolution
Desmond Harney
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AN ISLAMIC UTOPIAN
A Political Biography of Ali Shari’ati
Ali Rahnema, American University of Paris 432 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 86064 552 5 PAPERBACK £17.99
Saskia Gieling
TEXTBOOK
RELIGION AND POLITICS IN MODERN IRAN A Reader
Lloyd Ridgeon, University of Glasgow 296 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 073 4 HARDBACK £65.00 978 1 84511 072 7 PAPERBACK £15.99 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 3
APOCALYPTIC ISLAM AND IRANIAN SHI’ISM Abbas Amanat, Yale University
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MODERN ISLAMIC POLITICAL THOUGHT
TEXTBOOK
CREATING AN ISLAMIC STATE
Khomeini and the Making of a New Iran
Vanessa Martin, Royal Holloway
Hamid Enayat, Foreword by Roy Mottahedeh 240 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 85043 465 8 HARDBACK £56.00 978 1 85043 466 5 PAPERBACK £15.99
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FROM PALACE TO PRISON
Inside the Iranian Revolution
Ehsan Naraghi
392 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 85043 7048 PAPERBACK £49.00
GENDER MASCULINITIES IN URBAN IRAN NEW
Young Men in Contemporary Iranian Society
Mehri Honarbin-Holliday, Canterbury Christ Church University
Men in Middle Eastern societies are often viewed by the popular Western media only in the context of religious fundamentalism and the subjugation of women. This new book shifts the discourse on gender, usually focused on women, to men in the Middle East, and to young men in Iranian society in particular - and in the process fills a crucial gap in our understanding. It illustrates that, contrary to common perceptions that Iranian men are ‘tough’, there is an acute desire among young men for women’s approval and friendship, and to be recognised as sensitive and cosmopolitan. Mehri Honarbin-Holliday examines the conflicting factors and complexities involved in the formation of Iranian masculine identity, including the ideals of Persian cultural heritage, the pull of traditional familial and societal expectations, the memory of the 1979 revolution and its aspirations, and the pressures of being outwardly committed to Iran’s political system. 56 PAGES 234 X 156MM AUGUST 2014 9781848857360 HARDBACK £54.50 15 INTEGRATED B&W Iran 2014
TRIBESWOMEN OF IRAN
NEW
Weaving Memories among Qashqa’i Nomads
Julia Huang
Since the revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted few Western scholars to conduct research in the country. Here Julia Huang provides a remarkable account of local tribal life in Iran and depicts a community largely beyond the scope and reach of foreign travellers and the Western media. Huang documents the difficult livelihoods and lifestyles of these mobile Qashqa’i pastoralists and their society and culture, and she explains how this Turkic-speaking group relates to the wider Iranian society and the Islamic Republic. Focusing on a small group of women, she shows us how they adapt to a rapidly changing world while retaining tribal values and a distinctive ethnolinguistic identity as one of Iran’s largest national minorities. Engagingly written and documenting a disappearing way of life, Tribeswomen of Iran is essential reading for all those interested in Iran, the Middle East, anthropology, nomadism and gender. 288 PAGES 216 X 134MM FEBRUARY 2014 9781845118327 HARDBACK £59.50 9781780765389 PAPERBACK £14.99 10 IN 8PP COLOUR PLATES, 25 B&W INTEGRATED
GENDER BECOMING VISIBLE IN IRAN
ISLAM AND GENDER
Mehri Honarbin-Holliday, Canterbury Christ Church
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, SOAS
Women in Contemporary Iranian Society
University
224 PAGES 216 X 134MM APRIL 2013 9781780760865 PAPERBACK £14.99 15 B&W INTEGRATED INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 14
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FAITH AND FREEDOM
Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World
Mahnaz Afkhami (Ed.)
256 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 86064 008 7 PAPERBACK £14.99
The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran 344 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 85043 268 5 HARDBACK £59.50 978 1 85043 269 2 PAPERBACK £16.99
MARRIAGE ON TRIAL
Islamic Law in Iran and Morocco
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
264 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 86064 608 9 PAPERBACK £15.99
ART, ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE PERSIAN KINGSHIP AND ARCHITECTURE NEW
Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis
Sussan Babaie, Coulthard Institute and Talinn Grigor, Brandeis University Since the Shah went into exile and the Islamic Republic was established in 1979, the very idea of monarchy in Iran has become contentious. Yet, as leading scholars argue here, the institution of kingship has played a pivotal role in articulating an abstract notion of Iran since antiquity. This, in turn, has served as a unifying cultural force despite shifting political and religious allegiances. Analyses of palaces, mausoleums, art, architectural decoration and urban design from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis show how architecture was appropriated by different rulers as an integral part of their strategies of legitimizing power. Drawing on archaeology, antiquity, and medieval Islamic and modern secular architectural history, ‘Persian Kingship and Architecture’ is indispensable for all those interested in Iranian studies and visual culture, as well as art, architectural and social history. 320 PAGES 256 X 189MM MAY 2014 9781848857513 HARDBACK £60.00
PERSIAN GARDENS AND PAVILIONS
Reflections in History, Poetry and the Arts
Mohammad Gharipour, University of North Carolina 320 PAGES 246 X 189MM 2013 HARDABCK 9781780761213 £56.00
PICTURING IRAN
NEW
Art, Society and Revolution
Lynn Gumpert and Shiva Balaghi, both at New York University
When assessing the history of twentieth century cultural forms, non-western art can no longer remain relegated to the margins, viewed as derivative and imitative of canonical Western artistic modes. This assessment of modern Iranian visual culture from the 1960’s and 1970’s suggests that modernity in Iran was a creative, complex and contested process. The book examines the expression of Iranian modernity in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, posters and graphic arts. It highlights new modes of artistic production within an expanding institutional context, such as developments in Iranian art criticism, exhibition apparatus, education and patronage. The contributors also address changes in the iconography of Iranian art and in the increasingly social role of the artist. Ultimately, these patterns of artistic production influenced the art that accompanied the Iranian Revolution of 1979. 128 PAGES 246 X 189MM JUNE 2014 9781780768984 PAPERBACK £16.99 ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR AND B&W
EARLY PERSIAN PAINTING
Kalila wa Dimna Manuscripts of the Late 14th Century
Bernard O’Kane, American University of Cairo 336 PAGES 280 X 248MM 978 1 86064 852 6 HARDBACK £75.00 50 B&W & 91 COLOUR PLATES
ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE IN IRAN
Poststructural Theory and the Architectural History of Iranian Mosques
Saeid Khaghani, University of Manchester
288 PAGES 234 X 156MM SEPTEMBER 2012 9781848857292 HARDBACK £59.50 16PP COLOUR PLATES, 8 INTEGRATED B&W INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 4
PERSIAN PAINTING
From the Mongols to the Qajars
Robert Hillenbrand (ed.)
336 PAGES 280 X 248MM 978 1 85043 659 1 HARDBACK £75.00
THE ART AND MATERIAL CULTURE OF IRANIAN SHI’ISM
Iconography and Religious Devotion in Shi’i Islam
Pedram Khosronejad, University of St Andrews
288 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781848851689 HARDBACK £51.50 50 INTEGRATED B&W, 8PP COLOUR PLATES I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE OUNDATION INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES ,VOL. 29 www.ibtauris.com
FILM ALLEGORY IN IRANIAN CINEMA
NEW
An Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance
Michelle Langford, University of New South Wlaes, Sydney Since the 1979 revolution, Iranian filmmakers have been creating vibrant, aesthetically rich cinema – whilst working under strict state censorship laws. How have they achieved this? As Michelle Langford reveals, many have found indirect, allegorical ways of expressing forbidden topics and issues in their films, drawing on a long history of allegorical expression in Persian poetry and the arts. Allegory in Iranian Cinema explores the allegorical aesthetics of Iranian cinema, explaining how it has emerged from deep cultural traditions and how it functions as a strategy for ideological resistance. She uses a range of cinematic, philosophical and cultural concepts - developed by thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson, Vivian Sobchack and Laura Marks - to provide a theoretical framework for detailed analyses of films by renowned directors such as Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Majid Majidi, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Hana Makhmalbaf and Jafar Panahi. 272 PAGES 234 X 156MM MAY 2014 9781780762982 HARDBACK £59.50 9781780762999 PAPERBACK £15.99
FROM IRAN TO HOLLYWOOD AND SOME PLACES IN-BETWEEN Reframing Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
Christopher Gow, University of Glasgow 256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2011 9781848855267 HARDBACK £51.50 9781848855274 PAPERBACK £17.99
MAKHMALBAF AT LARGE
The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker
Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, New York, Foreword by Mohsen Makhmalbaf 272 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 531 9 HARDBACK £51.50 978 1 84511 532 6 PAPERBACK £16.99
TEXTBOOK
THE POETICS OF IRANIAN CINEMA
NEW IRANIAN CINEMA
Khatereh Sheibani, University of Guelph, Canada
Richard Tapper (Ed.), SOAS
Aesthetics, Modernity and Film after the Revolution 240 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2011 9781848857414 HARDBACK £54.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 33
Politics, Representation and Identity 304 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 86064 803 8 HARDBACK £59.50 978 1 86064 804 5 PAPERBACK £15.99 25 B&W HALFTONES
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SHI’I ISLAM IN IRANIAN CINEMA Religion and Spirituality in Film
Nacim Pak-Shiraz
288 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781848855106 HARDBACK £56.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF CULTURAL STUDIES,VOL. 17
IRANIAN CINEMA
A Political History
Hamid Reza Sadr
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LITERATURE, BIOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL THE WILD RUE OF PERSIA NEW
Magic, Myth and Folklore in Iran
Bess Donaldson
The Wild Rue is a unique study of myth and magic in Iran. Bess Donaldson spent thirty years in Iran as both missionary and teacher and in this classic work she records the beliefs and superstitions of country at a time when they were increasingly under threat from the tremendous changes brought about by the Shah’s programme of modernisation. This earlier way of life, with its belief in angels and the evil eye, and with its age-old rituals surrounding childbirth and burial, is recounted in an informed yet highly readable text. A unique study of magic, myth and folklore with chapters on cosmology, names and numbers, snakes, dreams, talismans and signs, childbirth, angels, the evil eye, and the calendar. A classic work, long unavailable but now back in print. 240PAGES 234 X 156MM MARCH 2014 9781780769455 HARDBACK £56.00
Iran 2014
HAFIZ AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
NEW
A Study of Fourteenth-century Persian Love Poetry
Dominic Brookshaw, University of Manchester
Hafiz of Shiraz has long been celebrated by many as the greatest Persian poet within the annals of world literature. During the fourteenth century he was master of the Persian ‘ghazal’ – the pre-eminent genre of love poetry in the Iranian world in its day and which, in the hands of Hafiz, reached the pinnacle of its development and refinement. Dominic Brookshaw here places Hafiz into a broader literary context by comparing his poetry with his two most important contemporaries: ‘Ubayd-i Zakani and the poet-princess, Jahan-Malik Khatun, whose ‘ghazals’ have received insufficient scholarly attention to date. Brookshaw presents here for the first time many previously untranslated ‘ghazals’. This detailed comparison enables a truer picture of the distinct and innovative nature of Hafiz’s poetry to emerge. 288 PAGES 234 X 156MM JUNE 2014 9781848851443 HARDBACK £56.50 BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES,VOL. 3
LITERATURE, BIOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL
AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY IN PERSIA SERIES PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES
AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY IN PERSIA, VOL. I
AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY IN PERSIA, VOL. III
S.H. Nasr, George Washington University & M. Aminrazavi, University of Mary Washington (Eds)
S.H. Nasr, George Washington University & M. Aminrazavi, University of Mary Washington (Eds)
From Zoroaster to Omar Khayyam
Philosophical Theology in the Middle Ages
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AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY IN PERSIA, VOL. II
AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY IN PERSIA, VOL. IV
Ismaili Thought in the Classical Age
From the School of Illumination to Philosophical Mysticism
S.H. Nasr, George Washington University & M. Aminrazavi, University of Mary Washington (Eds)
S.H. Nasr, George Washington University & M. Aminrazavi, University of Mary Washington (Eds)
424 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 542 5 HARDBACK £39.50 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES
424 PAGES 234 X 156MM APRIL 2012 9781848857490 HARDBACK £39.50 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES
A HISTORY OF PERSIAN LITERATURE Ehsan Yarshater, General Editor, Columbia University
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO PERSIAN LITERATURE AVAILABLE A History of Persian Literature,Vol. I 600 PAGES 225 X 145M 9781845118860 HARDBACK £59.50
PERSIAN POETRY IN THE CLASSICAL ERA, 800-1500
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. II 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM JUNE 2014 9781845119034 HARDBACK £59.50
PERSIAN POETRY IN THE CLASSICAL ERA, 800-1500
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. III 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM JUNE 2014 9781845119041 HARDBACK £59.50
HEROIC EPIC
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. IV
PERSIAN POETRY, 1500-1900
MODERN FICTION AND DRAMA
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM JUNE 2014 9781845119089 HARDBACK £59.50
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM JUNE 2014 9781845119140 HARDBACK £59.50
PERSIAN POETRY FROM OUTSIDE IRAN
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE POETS AND WRITERS OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD
A History of Persian Literature,Vol.VII
A History of Persian Literature,Vol.VIII 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM JUNE 2014 9781845119096 HARDBACK £59.50
PERSIAN PROSE FROM OUTSIDE IRAN A History of Persian Literature,Vol. IX 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM JUNE 2014 9781845119102 HARDBACK £59.50
PERSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AVAILABLE
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. X
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. XIII
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. XIV 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM JUNE 2014 9781845119157 HARDBACK £59.50
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE POETS AND WRITERS OF THE MODERN PERIOD A History of Persian Literature,Vol. XV 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM JUNE 2014 9781845119164 HARDBACK £59.50
GENERAL INDEX
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. XVI
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM JUNE 2014 9781845119058 HARDBACK £59.50
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM 9781845119119 HARDBACK £59.50
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM JUNE 2014 9781845119171 HARDBACK £59.50
PERSIAN PROSE
LITERATURE OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
LITERATURE OF PRE-ISLAMIC IRAN: COMPANION VOL I AVAILABLE
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM JUNE 2014 9781845119126 HARDBACK £59.50
552 PAGES 225 X 145MM 9781845118877 HARDBACK £68.50
A History of Persian Literature,Vol.V 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM JUNE 2014 9781845119065 HARDBACK £59.50
RELIGIOUS AND MYSTICAL LITERATURE
A History of Persian Literature,Vol.VI 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM JUNE 2014 9781845119072 HARDBACK £59.50
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. XI
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. XVII
MODERN PERSIAN POETRY, 1940 TO THE PRESENT
ORAL LITERATURE OF IRANIAN LANGUAGES: COMPANION VOL II
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM JUNE 2014 9781845119133 HARDBACK £59.50
A History of Persian Literature, Vol. XVIII
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. XII
AVAILABLE 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM AVAILABLE 9781845119188 HARDBACK £68.50 www.ibtauris.com
LITERATURE, BIOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL PERSIAN PICTURES
NEW
From the Mountains to the Sea
Gertrude Bell
When Gertrude Bell’s uncle was appointed Minister in Tehran in 1891, she declared that the great ambition of her life was to visit Persia. Several months later, she did. And so began a lifetime of travel and a lifelong enchantment with what she saw as the romance of the East, which evolved into a deep understanding of its cultures and people. This vivid and impressionistic series of sketches, her first foray into writing, is an evocative meditation that moves between Persia’s heroic past and its long decline; the public face of Tehran and the otherworldly ‘secret, mysterious life of the East’, the lives of its women, its lush, enclosed gardens; from the bustling cities to the lonely wastelands of Khorasan. 208 PAGES 198 X 126MM FEBRUARY 2014 9781780766928 PAPERBACK £11.99 TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
FERDOWSI, THE MONGOLS AND IRANIAN HISTORY Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia
Robert Hillenbrand, Edinburgh University, A.C.S Peacock, British Institute,Ankara and Firuza Abdullaeva University of Cambridge (Eds)
MUHAMMAD JUKI’S SHAHNAMAH OF FIRDAUSI Barbara Brend and A.H. Morton, SOAS 208 PAGES 335 X 225MM 2010 978 0 85667 672 7 HARDBACK £39.50 80 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS PHILIP WILSON PUBLISHERS
352 PAGES 246 X 189MM SEPTEMBER 2013 9781780760155 HARDBACK £65.00
HAFIZ AND THE RELIGION OF LOVE IN CLASSICAL PERSIAN POETRY Leonard Lewisohn (Ed.), Exeter University
360 PAGES 234 X 156MM MAY 2010 978184885 339 3 HARDBACK £45.00 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
ATTAR AND THE PERSIAN SUFI TRADITION The Art of Spiritual Flight
Leonard Lewisohn, University of Exeter, & Christopher Shackle, SOAS (Eds) 384 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 148 9 HARDBACK £35.00 ILLUSTRATED I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES
HAFIZ, MASTER OF PERSIAN POETRY
MAKE A SHIELD FROM WISDOM
Parvin Loloi
Annemarie Schimmel
A Critical Bibliography in English
Selected Verses from Nasir-i Khusraw’s Divan
400 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 86064 923 3 HARDBACK £65.00
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EPIC OF THE PERSIAN KINGS
NASIR KHUSRAW, THE RUBY OF BADAKHSHAN
Barbara Brend and Charles Melville, University of Cambridge (Eds)
Alice C. Hunsberger, The Institute of Ismaili Studies
The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
256 PAGES 271 X 218MM NOVEMBER 2011 9781848856561 PAPERBACK £25.00 145 COLOUR
PERSIAN STEEL
Masterpieces of Iranian Art
James Allan, University of Oxford 140 PAGES 296 X 210MM 978 1 85043 718 5 HARDBACK £42.00 ILLUSTRATED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
A Portrait of the Persian Poet,Traveller and Philosopher 324 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 85043 919 6 HARDBACK £25.00 978 1 85043 926 4 PAPERBACK £14.99 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES
KNOWLEDGE AND LIBERATION
A Treatise on Philosophical Theology
by Nasir Khusraw, Faquir M. Hunzai (Ed. & Trans), The Institute of Ismaili Studies 240 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 86064 471 9 PAPERBACK £14.99 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES
THE ART OF OMAR KHAYYAM
STRANGE TIMES IN PERSIA
William H. Martin & Sandra Mason
Nahid Mozaffari, New School, New York, & Ahmad Karimi Hakkak, University of Maryland (Eds)
Illustrating Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat 192 AGES 240 X 280MM 978 1 84511 282 0 HARDBACK £52.50 300 ILLUSTRATIONS
An Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature
496 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2009 978 1 84511 416 9 HARDBACK £35.00 978 1 84511 417 6 PAPERBACK £12.99
TWELVE PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEYS Iran in the 21st Century
Anahita Ghabaian & Minou Saberi 128 PAGES 236 X 189MM 978 1 85043 719 2 PAPERBACK £18.99
FORUGH FARROKHZAD, POET OF MODERN IRAN Exploring her Life and Works
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Manchester and Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California (Eds) 296 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2010 978184885 155 9 HARDBACK £54.50 978184885 156 6 PAPERBACK £16.99 16 INTEGRATED B&W I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE
FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL 21 Iran 2014
LITERATURE, BIOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL TWELVE DAYS IN PERSIA
A GIRL IN PARIS
Across the Mountains with the Bakhtiari Tribe
A Persian Encounter with the West
144 PAGES 198 X 126MM 978184511 933 1 PAPERBACK £9.99 32PP B&W PLATES TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
296 PAGES 198 X 126MM 978 1 84511 380 3 PAPERBACK £11.99
Vita Sackville-West
Shusha Guppy
PASSENGER TO TEHERAN
THE SECRET OF LAUGHTER
Vita Sackville-West
Magical Tales from Classical Persia
160 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 343 8 PAPERBACK £11.99 TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS ILLUSTRATED
232 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 695 8 PAPERBACK £9.99 TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
Shusha Guppy
FROM A PERSIAN TEA HOUSE
SADEQ HEDAYAT
Travels in Old Iran
The Life and Legend of an Iranian Writer
Homa Katouzian, University of Oxford
Michael Carroll
320 PAGES 216 X 134MM 978 1 86064 413 9 PAPERBACK £14.99
224 PAGES 198 X 126MM 978 1 84511 500 5 PAPERBACK £9.99 ILLUSTRATED TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
THE BLINDFOLD HORSE
Memories of a Persian Childhood
Shusha Guppy
256 PAGES 198 X 126MM 978 1 85043 401 6 PAPERBACK £9.99 TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT FROM A PERSIAN KITCHEN
NEW
Fresh Discoveries in Iranian Cooking
Jila Dana-Haeri and Shahrzad Ghorashian With an emphasis on the use of seasonal ingredients, fresh herbs and fragrant spices, Jila Dana-Haeri here presents a unique guide to quintessential Persian cooking. The varieties of beautiful jewelled rice dishes, hearty winter dishes and crisp summer salads, showcase the diversity of Iranian regional cooking, from the sweet and sour flavours of the Northern Caspian Coast to the spicy and aromatic tastes of the South and the Persian Gulf. The complimentary mix of flavours - the fresh tartness of pomegranate seeds and the subtle perfume of saffron, tarragon, dill and fenugreek create an array of mouth-watering recipes that are now, thanks to Dana-Haeri’s contribution, accessible to cooks of all levels. This lavishly-illustrated cookbook offers an enticing selection of recipes for any occasion. It will be essential for all interested in expanding their cultural and culinary horizons. MARCH 2014 272 PAGES 248 X 191MM 9781780768014 HARDBACK £20.00 100 COLOUR INTEGRATED
THE COMPLETE FAUNA OF IRAN
NEW PERSIAN COOKING
the Environment in Iran
Jila Dana-Haeri, Shahrzad Ghorashian, Jason Lowe
Eskandar Firouz, Former Director of the Department of 336 PAGES 240 X 170MM 978 1 85043 946 2 HARDBACK £65.00 ILLUSTRATED
A Fresh Approach to the Classic Cuisine of Iran 224 PAGES 248 X 191MM 2011 9781848855861 HARDBACK £20.00 35 COLOUR
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