IRAN NEW BOOKS 2015
THE IDEA OF IRAN SERIES PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SOUDAVAR FOUNDATION
THE AGE OF THE SELJUQS The Idea of Iran,Vol. 6
Edmund Herzig, Wadham College, University of Oxord, and Sarah Stewart, SOAS, University of London (Eds) 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 2014 9781780769479 HARDBACK £39.50
BIRTH OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE The Idea of Iran,Vol. 1
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, British Museum, and Sarah Stewart, SOAS, University of London (Eds) 160 PAGES 234 X 156MM
THE RISE OF ISLAM The Idea of Iran,Vol. 4
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, British Museum, and Sarah Stewart, SOAS, University of London (Eds) 128 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845116910 HARDBACK £41.50
9781845110628 HARDBACK £55.00
THE AGE OF THE PARTHIANS The Idea of Iran,Vol. 2
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, British Museum, and Sarah Stewart, SOAS, University of London (Eds) 176 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845114060 HARDBACK £55.00
THE SASANIAN ERA The Idea of Iran,Vol. 3
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, British Museum, and Sarah Stewart, SOAS, University of London (Eds) 192 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2008 9781845116903 HARDBACK £41.50
EARLY ISLAMIC IRAN The Idea of Iran,Vol. 5
Edmund Herzig, Wadham College, University of Oxord, and Sarah Stewart, SOAS, University of London (Eds) 304 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2011 9781780760612 HARDBACK £41.50
IRAN
New and Recent Titles 2015 ANCIENT HISTORY
MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN SASANIAN PERSIA
ANCIENT IRAN THROUGH CHINESE RECORDS
Sacred History and the Historiography of Ancient Iran NEW
Commodities and Culture
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Berthold Laufer
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 OCTOBER 2015 9781780762487 HARDBACK £52.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 44
ANCIENT PERSIA IN WESTERN HISTORY Hellenism and the Re-presentation of the Achaemenid Empire
Sasan Samiei, UCL 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, SOAS, University of London (Ed) 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 ILLUSTRATIONS
In this major study – regarded as his most important work – the pioneering anthropologist, Berthold Laufer documents the cultural transfers that took place between China and Iran in early times. He does so by tracing the history of cultivated plants, drugs, products, minerals, metals, precious stones and textiles, in their migration from Persia to China and from China to Persia. Walnut, peach, apricot and olive, as well as more exotic products like jasmine, henna, indigo, lapis lazuli, amber, coral, gold, ebony, zinc and myrrh are all included. Few other publications provide so much informative detail about the way human activity has modified the natural world through the movement of plants and other natural resource products from one historical civilisation to another. The work also offers important detail for periods when Iranian sources are slim. With an introduction by Brian Spooner, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, this classic work is once more available for all scholars of Iran, China and cultural exchange. 448 PAGES 234 X 156MM SEPTEMBER 2015 9781784532017 HARDBACK £75.00
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 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
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 ILLUSTRATIONS I.B.TAURIS INTRODUCTIONS TO RELIGION
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THE WORLD OF ACHAEMENID PERSIA
John Curtis and St.John Simpson, British
SASANIAN PERSIA The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Museum
Touraj Daryaee, University of California
648 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2010 9781848853461 HARDBACK £59.50 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850438984 HARDBACK £35.00 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION 32 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
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 9781845116453 HARDBACK £45.00 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 10
ANCIENT PERSIA
Josef Wiesehöfer, University of Kiel 352 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850439998 PAPERBACK £14.99 ILLUSTRATED IN B&W
MEDIEVAL IRAN THE ILKHANID BOOK OF ASCENSION A Persian-Sunni Prayer Manual
Christiane Gruber, Indiana University, Bloomington 256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2010 9781845114992 HARDBACK £56.00 10 COLOUR PLATES BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES,VOL. 2
LOYALTY AND LEADERSHIP IN AN EARLY ISLAMIC SOCIETY
Roy P. Mottahedeh, Harvard University 224 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860641817 PAPERBACK £16.99
THE FIRE, THE STAR AND THE CROSS Minority Religions in Medieval and Early Modern Iran
Aptin Khanbaghi, University of Cambridge 288 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845110567 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 5
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EAGLE’S NEST Ismaili Castles in Iran and Syria
Peter Willey 352 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850434641 HARDBACK £25.00 ISMAILI HERITAGE SERIES, I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES
THE ASSASSIN LEGENDS Myths of the Ismailis
Farhad Daftary, The Institute of Ismaili Studies 224 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781850437055 HARDBACK £59.50 9781850439509 PAPERBACK £14.99
THE ORNAMENT OF HISTORIES: A HISTORY OF THE EASTERN ISLAMIC LANDS AD 650-1041 The Persian Text of Abu Sa‘id ‘Abd al-Hayy Gardizi
Edmund Bosworth, University of Exeter (Trans and Ed) 192 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2010 9781848853539 HARDBACK £51.50 BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES SERIES, VOL. 4
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New and Recent Titles 2015
EARLY MODERN AND SAFAVID IRAN
CONVERTING PERSIA
NEW IN PAPERBACK
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 APRIL 2015 9781780767789 PAPERBACK £17.99
THE HISTORY OF THE LATE REVOLUTIONS IN PERSIA NEW
An Eyewitness Account of the Fall of the Safavid Dynasty
J.T. Krusinski
IRAN AND THE WORLD IN THE SAFAVID AGE Willem Foor and Edmund Herzig both at University of Oxford (Eds) NEW IN PAPERBACK
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 2015 9781780764689 HARDBACK £250.00 3 VOLS
The Safavid era is of special significance in the history of Iran. Under the Safavids, Iran was transformed and a state emerged which was the forerunner of the Iran of today in several important ways. But with the exception of diplomatic and commercial contacts with western European countries, little is known about the Safavids’ foreign relations – their commercial, cultural, social and political exchanges with the rest of the world. This book presents the most recent research into Safavid Iran’s foreign relations. It challenges the long-held notion that, with the adoption of Shi’ism, Iranians retreated into relative isolation, suggesting rather that they engaged with the world in unprecedented and exciting ways. With contributions from the leading authorities in the field, Iran and the World in the Safavid Age explores Iran’s relations with other countries and cultures. Examining how Iran was itself perceived as well as how it viewed the outside world, this groundbreaking book sheds new light on the history of Iran’s relations with the world beyond its borders and expands our understanding of this pivotal period. 544 PAGES 234 X 156MM JANUARY 2015 9781780769905 PAPERBACK £17.99 40 ILLUSTRATIONS I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
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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
THE SWORD OF PERSIA Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant
Michael Axworthy, Exeter University 368 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781845119829 PAPERBACK £14.99
320 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2013 9781780760797 HARDBACK £45.00
PERSIA IN CRISIS Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan
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
THE PRACTICE OF POLITICS IN SAFAVID IRAN Power, Religion and Rhetoric
Colin P. Mitchell, Dalhousie University, Canada 304 PAGES 228 X 155MM 2012 9781780760964 PAPERBACK £17.99
SAFAVID PERSIA The History and Politics of an Islamic Society
Charles Melville University of Cambridge (Ed) 432 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781860640865 PAPERBACK £22.50 PEMBROKE PERSIAN PAPERS
SLAVES OF THE SHAH New Elites of Safavid Iran
Sussan Babaie, University of Michigan, Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan, Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe, Tufts University, and Massumeh Farhad, Smithsonian Institution 256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781860647215 HARDBACK £56.00 LIBRARY OF MIDDLE EAST HISTORY, VOL. 3
THE SAFAVID DYNASTIC SHRINE Architecture, Religion and Power in Early Modern Iran
Kishwar Rizvi, Yale University 256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2010 9781848853546 HARDBACK £52.50 20 B&W INTEGRATED, 16 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES,VOL. 5
SHAH ABBAS The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian Legend
David Blow 288 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845119898 PAPERBACK £14.99 8PP B&W AND 8PP COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
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SAFAVID IRAN Rebirth of a Persian Empire
Andrew J. Newman, University of Edinburgh 296 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845118303 PAPERBACK £17.99
IRAN
New and Recent Titles 2015 QAJAR IRAN AND MODERN HISTORY
ON THE SHORES OF THE CASPIAN
FORMING NATIONAL IDENTITY IN IRAN
NEW
Commerce and Culture in Nineteenth Century Persia
The Idea of Homeland Derived from Ancient Persian and Islamic Imaginations of Place
William Richard Holmes 448 PAGES 234 X 156MM OCTOBER 2015 9781784531515 HARDBACK £85.00
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.
THE BAHA’IS OF IRAN, TRANSCASPIA AND THE CAUCASUS 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
256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2014 9781780764436 HARDBACK £56.00
THE BAHA’IS OF IRAN, TRANSCASPIA AND THE CAUCASUS
PERCEPTIONS OF IRAN History, Myths and Nationalism from Medieval Persia to the Islamic Republic
VOLUME 2
Reports and Correspondence of Russian Officials
Soli Shahvar, Gad Gilbar and Boris Morozov (Eds)
Ali M Ansari, University of St Andrews 288 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2013 9781848858305 HARDBACK £56.50 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES
IRAN BETWEEN ISLAMIC NATIONALISM AND SECULARISM The Constitutional Revolution of 1906
288 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781848853928 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 27
THE BAHA’IS OF IRAN, TRANSCASPIA AND THE CAUCASUS TWO VOLUME SET
Soli Shahvar, Gad Gilbar and Boris Morozov (Eds) 576 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781848854734 HARDBACK £105.00
Vanessa Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London
288 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2013 978178076663888 HARDBACK £56.50
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF IRAN UNDER THE QAJARS Society, Politics and Foreign Relations 1799 to 1921
IN THE SHADOW OF THE KING Zill al-Sultan and Isfahan under the Qajars
Heidi Walcher, SOAS, University of London 528 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850434344 HARDBACK £51.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 9
Hooshang Amirahmadi, Rutgers University 400 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2012 9781848856721 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,
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IRAN’S CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION Popular Politics, Cultural Transformations and Transnational Connections
H.E. Chehabi, Boston University and Vanessa Martin, Royal Holloway (Eds) 512 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2010 9781848854154 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 28 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
STATE AND SOCIETY IN IRAN The Eclipse of the Qajars and the Emergence of the Pahlavis
Homa Katouzian, St Antony’s College, Oxford 368 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845112721 PAPERBACK £17.99 LIBRARY OF MODERN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, VOL. 28
KHANS AND SHAHS A History of the Bakhtiyari Tribe in Iran
Gene R. Garthwaite, Dartmouth College 240 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2009 9781848850965 PAPERBACK £17.99
JEWISH IDENTITIES IN IRAN Resistance and Conversion to Islam and the Baha’i Faith
Mehrdad Amanat 256 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2010 9781845118914 HARDBACK £56.50 LIBRARY OF MODERN RELIGION,VOL. 9
DIPLOMACY AND MURDER IN TEHRAN Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s Mission to the Shah of Persia
Laurence Kelly 336 PAGES 198 X 126MM 9781845111960 PAPERBACK £12.99 TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
THE FORGOTTEN SCHOOLS The Baha’is and Modern Education in Iran, 1899–1934
Soli Shahvar, University of Haifa 304 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2009 9781845116835 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 11
RELIGION, CULTURE AND POLITICS IN IRAN From the Qajars to Khomeini
Joanna de Groot
320 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860645716 HARDBACK £59.50
IRAN: THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY 1941–1953
Fakhreddin Azimi, University of Connecticut 448 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2009 9781860649806 PAPERBACK £16.99
IRAN IN THE 20TH CENTURY Historiography and Political Culture
Touraj Atabaki (Ed.), University of Leiden 352 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2009 9781845116921 HARDBACK £54.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 20
IRAN AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR Battleground of the Great Powers
Touraj Atabaki PIVOT OF THE UNIVERSE Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896
Abbas Amanat 568 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845118280 PAPERBACK £16.99 23 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
240 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781860649646 HARDBACK £56.50
MUSADDIQ AND THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN IRAN
Homa Katouzian 328 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860642906 PAPERBACK £16.99
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New and Recent Titles 2015 REBELS WITH A CAUSE The Failure of the Left in Iran
Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State University 264 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860646300 PAPERBACK £16.99
THE QAJAR PACT Bargaining, Protest and the State in Nineteenth-Century Persia
Vanessa Martin, Royal Holloway 224 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850437635 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 4
THE ENGLISH AMONGST THE PERSIANS Imperial Lives in NineteenthCentury Iran
Denis Wright 240 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781860646386 PAPERBACK £18.99
IRAN AND THE RISE OF REZA SHAH From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power
Cyrus Ghani 440 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781860642586 HARDBACK £56.50 9781860646294 PAPERBACK £17.99
AZERBAIJAN Ethnicity and the Struggle for Power in Iran
Touraj Atabaki 256 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860645549 PAPERBACK £17.99
THE STATE AND THE SUBALTERN Modernization, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran
Touraj Atabaki (Ed) 272 PAGES 234 X 156 MM 9781845113391 HARDBACK £57.50
THE PERSIANS AMONGST THE ENGLISH Episodes in Anglo-Persian History
Denis Wright 288 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850430025 HARDBACK £59.50
THE SHAH AND I The Confidential Diary of Iran’s Royal Court, 1968–77
Asadollah Alam 576 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845113728 PAPERBACK £14.99
FRONTIER FICTIONS Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet 328 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850432708 HARDBACK £65.00
THE PERSIAN SPHINX Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution
Abbas Milani
400 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850433286 HARDBACK £49.00
MEN OF ORDER Authoritarian Modernization Under Ataturk and Reza Shah
Touraj Atabaki and Erik J. Zurcher, both at University of Leiden (Eds) 296 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860644269 HARDBACK £59.50 LIBRARY OF MODERN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, VOL. 21
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POLITICAL ISLAM IN POSTREVOLUTIONARY IRAN
EVERYDAY IRAN A Provincial Portrait of the Islamic Republic NEW
Clarissa de Waal, University of
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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 APRIL 2015 9781848852761 HARDBACK £56.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 24
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. 256 PAGES 216 X 134MM APRIL 2015 9781780769080, HARDBACK £56.00 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES
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 2015 9781848858220 HARDBACK £59.50 LIBRARY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS,VOL. 62
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FAMILY LAW IN CONTEMPORARY IRAN NEW
Women’s Rights Activism and Shari’a
Marianne Bøe
THE DISSIDENT MULLAH NEW
Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for Reform in Revolutionary Iran
Ulrich Von Schwerin
Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Bergen Passed into law over a decade before the Iranian Revolution, the Family Protection Law drew the ire of the conservative clergy and the Ayatollah Khomeini, and was one of the first laws to be rescinded following the establishment of the Islamic Republic. The law was hardly a surprising target, however, since women’s status in Iran was then – and continues now to be – a central concern of Iranian political leaders, media commentators and international observers alike. Taking up the issue of women’s status in a modern context, Bøe offers a nuanced view of how women’s rights activists assert their positions within an Islamic context. By weaving together religious and historical texts and narratives with discourses on human rights, these women are able to communicate their views to those in political power. Through her substantial fieldwork and innovative analysis, Bøe undermines the traditional view of ‘Islamic Feminism’ as monolithic and clears a path to a new understanding of the role of women’s rights activists in shaping and synthesising debates on the shari’a, women’s rights and family law.
The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integral role in the founding of the Islamic Republic in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9.Yet at the time of his death, Montazeri was considered one of the Islamic Republic’s fiercest critics. What made this man, who was once considered the leading advocate of the state doctrine of the ‘Guardianship of the Jurist’ (velayat-e faqih) and the designated successor to the supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, change his views? How did his political theory incorporate issues such as civil rights, pluralism and popular participation? And what influence did his ideas have on others? Ulrich von Schwerin’s book answers these questions by examining the evolution of Montazeri’s political thought over the course of five decades, and studies his role in the discourse on religion and politics in Iran. By offering a comprehensive examination of this dissident ayatollah’s political and social thought, von Schwerin sheds a new light on some of the most crucial events and vital protagonists of recent Iranian history.
288 PAGES 216 X 134MM JANUARY 2015 9781780769004 HARDBACK £62.00 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 54
320 PAGES 216 X 134MM MAY 2015 9781784531737 HARDBACK £62.00 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES
IRAN IN THE MIDDLE EAST NEW
IRAN AND PAKISTAN
Transnational Encounters and Social History
Security, Diplomacy and American Influence NEW
Houchang Chehabi (Ed) Boston University
Alex Vatanka
336 PAGES 216 X 134MM MAY 2015 9781784531348 HARDBACK £62.00
Middle East Institute, Washington DC
OCCIDENTALISM IN IRAN NEW
The respective policies of the governments of Iran and Pakistan pose serious challenges to US interests in the Middle East, Asia and beyond. These two regional powers, with a combined population of around 300 million, have been historically intertwined in various cultural, religious and political ways. Pakistan, a politically fragmented and unstable but nuclear-armed state, has a history of proliferation dating back to the 1980s. Iran, on the other hand, continues to develop its nuclear program despite UN sanctions and looks to break its isolation whenever possible. Even at times of heightened tension, such as in the second half of the 1980s, Islamabad provided Tehran with valuable nuclear know-how. As US focus in the region increases,Vatanka explores whether this neighbourly cooperation is fuelled by cultural and religious bonds or, indeed, as a reaction to the West. Even more concerning for the US is the support that Iran and Pakistan each give to insurgent elements in Afghanistan and, indeed, Iran’s past funding of minority Shi‘i Pakistani militants.Vatanka presents the first comprehensive analysis of this long-standing and complex relationship which will prove essential reading for students, specialists and those interested in the Middle East. 304 PAGES 216 X 134MM JUNE 2015 9781784532147 HARDBACK £62.00
Representations of the West in the Iranian Media
Ehsan Bakhshandeh 256 PAGES 216 X 134MM JUNE 2015 9781784531621 HARDBACK £58.00
ARAB-IRANIAN RELATIONS Khair el-Din Haseeb (Ed) Centre for Arab Studies, Beirut NEW IN PAPERBACK
584 PAGES 234 X 156MM APRIL 2015 9781780766478 PAPERBACK £25.00 THE CENTRE FOR ARAB UNITY STUDIES
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CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN IRAN Contemporary Popular Culture in the Islamic Republic
Annabelle Sreberny and Massoumeh Torfeh (Eds) both at SOAS, University of London 288 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2013 9781780760896 HARDBACK £56.50
PERSIAN SERVICE The BBC and British Interests in Iran
Annabelle Sreberny and Massoumeh Torfeh both at SOAS, University of London (Eds)
BLOGISTAN The Internet and Politics in Iran
Annabelle Sreberny, SOAS, University of London, 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
KHOMEINI Life of the Ayatollah
Baqer Moin, Former head of BBC’s Persian Service 352 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2009 9781845117900 PAPERBACK £16.99
224 PAGES 234 X 156MM JANUARY 2014 9781848859814 HARDBACK £40.00
KHATAMI’S IRAN The Islamic Republic and the Turbulent Path to Reform
AHMADINEJAD The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader
Ghoncheh Tazmini, LSE
Kasra Naji
240 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2013 9781848851825 PAPERBACK £14.99
304 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781845116361 PAPERBACK £12.99
NUCLEAR IRAN The Birth of an Atomic State
KHATAMI AND GORBACHEV Politics of Change in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the USSR
David Patrikarakos
256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2012 9781780761251 HARDBACK £25.00
CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS WITH IRAN Engaging Muslim Thinkers after the Revolution
400 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2010 9781848851399 HARDBACK £65.00 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF POLITICAL STUDIES,VOL. 38
IRAN AND THE RISE OF ITS NEOCONSERVATIVES The Politics of Tehran’s Silent Revolution
Sasan Tavassoli
Anoush Ehteshami and Mahjoob Zweiri, both
272 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781845117610 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 19
240 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845113889 HARDBACK £25.00
POLITICS OF CONFRONTATION The Foreign Policy of the USA and Revolutionary Iran
Babak Ganji 328 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2011 9781848859647 PAPERBACK £25.00
KURDS AND THE STATE IN IRAN The Making of Kurdish Identity
Abbas Vali, Bogaziçi University Istanbul 224 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011
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Zhand Shakibi, LSE
9781848857889 HARDBACK £49.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 36
at the University of Durham
SYRIA AND IRAN Diplomatic Alliance and Power Politics in the Middle East
Jubin Goodarzi, Webster University, Geneva 376 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781845119973 PAPERBACK £16.99 LIBRARY OF MODERN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, VOL. 55
ISLAM AND DISSENT IN POSTREVOLUTIONARY IRAN Abdolkarim Soroush, Religious Politics and Democratic Reform
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
320 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845118792 HARDBACK £65.00 9781845118808 PAPERBACK £17.99
IRAN
New and Recent Titles 2015 THE CONSTITUTION OF IRAN Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic
Asghar Schirazi
336 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781860642531 PAPERBACK £19.99
IRAN OIL The New Middle East Challenge to America
Roger Howard, New Statesman 200 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845112493 HARDBACK £20.00
TROUBLED WATERS The Geopolitics of the Caspian Region
R. Hrair Dekmejian and Hovann H. Simonian, both at the University of Southern
REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY AND ISLAMIC MILITANCY The Iranian Revolution and Interpretations of the Quran
Najibullah Lafraie 288 PAGES 2134 X 216MM 9781845110635 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 13
TRADE, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE FIRM IN IRAN The Impact of Government Policy on Business
Javad Amid and Amjad Hadjikhani 304 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850436812 HARDBACK £65.00
SANCTIONING IRAN Anatomy of a Failed Policy
Hossein Alikhani
448 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781860646263 HARDBACK £65.00
California
280 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781860649226 PAPERBACK £18.99
DISTANT RELATIONS Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years
THE ECONOMY OF IRAN The Dilema of an Islamic State
Parvin Alizadeh (Ed)
313 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860644641 HARDBACK £59.50
H.E. Chehabi, Boston University 560 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860645617 HARDBACK £47.50 9781845112554 PAPERBACK £16.99 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CENTRE FOR LEBANESE STUDIES, OXFORD
IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA AND THE GULF Power Politics in Transition
Faisal bin Salman al-Saud ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY IN IRAN Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, SOAS, University of London, and Richard Tapper, University of London 208 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781845111335 HARDBACK £59.50 9781845111342 PAPERBACK £16.99 LIBRARY OF MODERN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, VOL. 54
IRAN’S ECONOMY UNDER THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
Jahangir Amuzegar 416 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860641046 PAPERBACK £18.99
200 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781860648816 HARDBACK £52.50
THE PRIEST AND THE KING An Eyewitness Account of the Iranian Revolution
Desmond Harney
224 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860643194 HARDBACK £49.00 9781860643743 PAPERBACK £14.99
AN ISLAMIC UTOPIAN A Political Biography of Ali Shari’ati
Ali Rahnema, American University of Paris 432 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781860645525 PAPERBACK £17.99
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New and Recent Titles 2015 CREATING AN ISLAMIC STATE Khomeini and the Making of a New Iran
Vanessa Martin, Royal Holloway 272 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860649004 PAPERBACK £15.99
FROM PALACE TO PRISON Inside the Iranian Revolution
Ehsan Naraghi 392 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850437048 PAPERBACK £49.00
RELIGION AND POLITICS IN MODERN IRAN A Reader
Lloyd Ridgeon, University of Glasgow 296 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845110734 HARDBACK £65.00 9781845110727 PAPERBACK £15.99 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 3
APOCALYPTIC ISLAM AND IRANIAN SHI’ISM
Abbas Amanat, Yale University 304 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781845111243 HARDBACK £59.50 9781845119812 PAPERBACK £16.99
RELIGION AND WAR IN REVOLUTIONARY IRAN
Saskia Gieling
216 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860644078 HARDBACK £59.50
MODERN ISLAMIC POLITICAL THOUGHT
Hamid Enayat, Foreword by Roy Mottahedeh 240 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781850434658 HARDBACK £56.00 9781850434665 PAPERBACK £15.99
GENDER
TRIBESWOMEN OF IRAN NEW IN PAPERBACK
Weaving Memories among Qashqa’i Nomads
Julia Huang
FAITH AND FREEDOM Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World
Mahnaz Afkhami (Ed) 256 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860640087 PAPERBACK £14.99
288 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2014 9781780765389 PAPERBACK £14.99
ISLAM AND GENDER The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, SOAS, University of London BECOMING VISIBLE IN IRAN Women in Contemporary Iranian Society
Mehri Honarbin-Holliday, Canterbury Christ
MARRIAGE ON TRIAL Islamic Law in Iran and Morocco
224 PAGES 216 X 134MM APRIL 2013 9781780760865 PAPERBACK £14.99 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 14
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Church University
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344 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850432685 HARDBACK £59.50 9781850432692 PAPERBACK £16.99
264 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860646089 PAPERBACK £15.99
IRAN
New and Recent Titles 2015 ART, ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE
PERSIAN KINGSHIP AND ARCHITECTURE Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis NEW
PICTURING IRAN NEW IN PAPERBACK
Art, Society and Revolution
Lynn Gumpert and Shiva Balaghi, both at New York University
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 FEBRUARY 2015 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 9781780761213 HARDBACK £56.00
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 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 4
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: 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. This groundbreaking work demonstrates that the visual arts serve as an important archival record of a critical period in Iranian history. 128 PAGES 246 X 189MM MARCH 2015 9781780768984 PAPERBACK £16.99
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 ILLUSTRATIONS I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE OUNDATION INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES , VOL. 29
EARLY PERSIAN PAINTING Kalila wa Dimna Manuscripts of the Late 14th Century
Bernard O’Kane, American University of Cairo 336 PAGES 280 X 248MM 9781860648526 HARDBACK £75.00 50 B&W & 91 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
PERSIAN PAINTING From the Mongols to the Qajars
Robert Hillenbrand (Ed
336 PAGES 280 X 248MM 9781850436591 HARDBACK £75.00
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New and Recent Titles 2015 FILM MAKHMALBAF AT LARGE The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker
FROM IRAN TO HOLLYWOOD AND SOME PLACES IN-BETWEEN Reframing Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, New York, Foreword by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Christopher Gow, University of Glasgow
272 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845115319 HARDBACK £51.50 9781845115326 PAPERBACK £16.99
256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2011 9781848855267 HARDBACK £51.50 9781848855274 PAPERBACK £17.99
NEW IRANIAN CINEMA Politics, Representation and Identity
THE POETICS OF IRANIAN CINEMA Aesthetics, Modernity and Film after the Revolution
Richard Tapper (Ed), SOAS, University of London 304 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781860648038 HARDBACK £59.50 9781860648045 PAPERBACK £15.99 25 B&W HALFTONE ILLUSTRATIONS
Khatereh Sheibani, University of Guelph, Canada 240 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2011 9781848857414 HARDBACK £54.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 33
IRANIAN CINEMA A Political History
SHI’I ISLAM IN IRANIAN CINEMA Religion and Spirituality in Film
Hamid Reza Sadr
Nacim Pak-Shiraz
320 PAGES 222 X 172MM 9781845111465 HARDBACK £59.50 9781845111472 PAPERBACK £16.99 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 7
288 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781848855106 HARDBACK £56.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF CULTURAL STUDIES, VOL. 17
LITERATURE, BIOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL
THE WILD RUE OF PERSIA NEW
Magic, Myth and Folklore in Iran
Bess Donaldson
THE LITERATURE OF THE IRANIAN DIASPORA NEW
Meaning and Identity since the Islamic Revolution
Sanaz Fotouhi, University of New South Wales
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 APRIL 2015 9781780769455 HARDBACK £56.00
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The 1979 Revolution in Iran caused the migration of millions of Iranians, many of whom wrote of, and are still writing of, their experiences. Formed at the junctions of the Iranian culture, English language and Western cultures, this body of work has not only formed a unique literary space, offering an insightful reflection of Iranian diasporic experiences and its shifting nature, but it has also been making a unique and understudied contribution to World Literatures in English as significant as Indian, African and Asian writing in English. Fotouhi traces the origins of the emerging body of diasporic Iranian literature in English, and uses these origins to examine the socio-political position and historical context from which they emerged. While situating this body of work through existing theories such as postcolonialism, Fatouhi sheds new light on the role of Iranian literature and culture in Western literature by showing that these writings distinctively reflect a diasporic experience unique to Iranians. 288 PAGES 216 X 134MM MARCH 2015 9781780767284 HARDBACK £62.00 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 49
IRAN
New and Recent Titles 2015
HAFIZ AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES A Study of Fourteenthcentury Persian Lyric Poetry
Dominic Brookshaw, University of Oxford
NEW
HAFIZ AND THE RELIGION OF LOVE IN CLASSICAL PERSIAN POETRY NEW IN PAPERBACK
Leonard Lewisohn (Ed), Exeter University 360 PAGES 234 X 156MM MARCH 2015 9781784532123 PAPERBACK £17.99 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Hafiz of Shiraz has long been celebrated by many as one of the greatest Persian poets. 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. Brookshaw 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. This detailed comparison, including many previously-untranslated ‘ghazals’, gives a true picture of the distinct and innovative nature of Hafiz’s poetry to emerge. 288 PAGES 234 X 156MM FEBRUARY 2015 9781848851443 HARDBACK £62.00 BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES,VOL. 3
LAND OF THE TURQUOISE MOUNTAINS Journeys Across Iran
Cyrus Massoudi 320 PAGES 216 X 135MM SEPTEMBER 2014 9781848856370 HARDBACK £17.99
PERSIAN PICTURES From the Mountains to the Sea
Gertrude Bell 208 PAGES 198 X 126MM FEBRUARY 2014 9781780766928 PAPERBACK £11.99 TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
FERDOWSI, THE MONGOLS AND THE HISTORY OF IRAN 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) 352 PAGES 246 X 189MM 2013 9781780760155 HARDBACK £65.00
HAFIZ, MASTER OF PERSIAN POETRY A Critical Bibliography in English
Parvin Loloi 400 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781860649233 HARDBACK £65.00
EPIC OF THE PERSIAN KINGS The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
Barbara Brend and Charles Melville, University of Cambridge (Eds) 256 PAGES 271 X 218MM 2011 9781848856561 PAPERBACK £25.00 145 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
PERSIAN STEEL Masterpieces of Iranian Art
James Allan, University of Oxford 140 PAGES 296 X 210MM 978 1 85043 718 5 HARDBACK £42.00 IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
THE ART OF OMAR KHAYYAM Illustrating Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat
William H. Martin and Sandra Mason 192 AGES 240 X 280MM 9781845112820 HARDBACK £52.50 300 ILLUSTRATIONS
TWELVE PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEYS Iran in the 21st Century
Anahita Ghabaian and Minou Saberi 128 PAGES 236 X 189MM 9781850437192 PAPERBACK £18.99
MUHAMMAD JUKI’S SHAHNAMAH OF FIRDAUSI
Barbara Brend and A.H. Morton, SOAS, University of London 208 PAGES 335 X 225MM 2010 9780856676727 HARDBACK £39.50 80 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS PHILIP WILSON PUBLISHERS
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New and Recent Titles 2015 ATTAR AND THE PERSIAN SUFI TRADITION The Art of Spiritual Flight
Leonard Lewisohn, University of Exeter, and Christopher Shackle, SOAS, University of London (Eds) 384 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845111489 HARDBACK £35.00 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES
MAKE A SHIELD FROM WISDOM Selected Verses from Nasir-i Khusraw’s Divan
Annemarie Schimmel 112 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860647253 PAPERBACK £12.99 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES
NASIR KHUSRAW, THE RUBY OF BADAKHSHAN A Portrait of the Persian Poet, Traveller and Philosopher
Alice C. Hunsberger, The Institute of Ismaili Studies 324 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781850439196 HARDBACK £25.00 9781850439264 PAPERBACK £14.99 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES
KNOWLEDGE AND LIBERATION A Treatise on Philosophical Theology
Nasir Khusraw, Faquir M. Hunzai, The Institute of Ismaili Studies (Ed and Trans) 240 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860644719 PAPERBACK £14.99 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES
TWELVE DAYS IN PERSIA Across the Mountains with the Bakhtiari Tribe
Vita Sackville-West 144 PAGES 198 X 126MM 9781845119331 PAPERBACK £9.99 32PP B&W ILLUSTRATIONS TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
PASSENGER TO TEHERAN
Vita Sackville-West 160 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845113438 PAPERBACK £11.99 TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
SADEQ HEDAYAT The Life and Legend of an Iranian Writer
Homa Katouzian, University of Oxford 320 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860644139 PAPERBACK £14.99
THE BLINDFOLD HORSE Memories of a Persian Childhood
Shusha Guppy
256 PAGES 198 X 126MM 9781850434016 PAPERBACK £9.99 TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
A GIRL IN PARIS A Persian Encounter with the West
Shusha Guppy STRANGE TIMES IN PERSIA An Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature
Nahid Mozaffari, New School, New York, and Ahmad Karimi Hakkak, University of Maryland (Eds) 496 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2009 9781845114169 HARDBACK £35.00 9781845114176 PAPERBACK £12.99
FORUGH FARROKHZAD, POET OF MODERN IRAN Exploring her Life and Works
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Manchester and Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California (Eds)
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296 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2010 9781848851559 HARDBACK £54.50 9781848851566 PAPERBACK £16.99 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL 21
296 PAGES 198 X 126MM 9781845113803 PAPERBACK £11.99
THE SECRET OF LAUGHTER Magical Tales from Classical Persia
Shusha Guppy 232 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845116958 PAPERBACK £9.99 TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
FROM A PERSIAN TEA HOUSE Travels in Old Iran
Michael Carroll 224 PAGES 198 X 126MM 9781845115005 PAPERBACK £9.99 TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
IRAN
New and Recent Titles 2015 SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT
THE JEWS OF IRAN The History, Religion and Culture of a Community in the Islamic World
Houman M. Sarshar
FROM A PERSIAN KITCHEN Fresh Discoveries in Iranian Cooking
Jila Dana-Haeri and Shahrzad Ghorashian 272 PAGES 248 X 191MM 2014 9781780768014 HARDBACK £20.00 100 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
THE COMPLETE FAUNA OF IRAN
Eskandar Firouz, Former Director of the Living continuously in Iran for over 2700 years, Jews have played an integral role in the history of the country, and in the development of its society and culture. Examining ancient texts, objects, and art, as well as the medieval trade routes along which these would have travelled, The Jews of Iran offers in-depth analysis of the material and visual culture of this community. Additionally, an exploration of modern novels and accounts of Jewish-Iranian women’s experiences sheds light on the social history and transformations of the Jews of Iran from the rule of Cyrus the Great to the present day. By using the examples of women writers such as Gina Barkhordar Nahai and Dalia Sofer, the vital importance of communal memory and tradition to this community is drawn out. By examining the representation of identity construction through lenses of religion, gender, and ethnicity, the analysis of these writers’ work highlights how the writers attempt to create a new narrative integrating the Jews of Iran into the idea of what it means to be Iranian. 264 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2014 9781780768885 HARDBACK £65.00 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 53
Department of the Environment in Iran 336 PAGES 240 X 170MM 9781850439462 HARDBACK £65.00
NEW PERSIAN COOKING A Fresh Approach to the Classic Cuisine of Iran
Jila Dana-Haeri, Shahrzad Ghorashian and Jason Lowe 224 PAGES 248 X 191MM 2011 9781848855861 HARDBACK £20.00 35 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY IN PERSIA
S.H. Nasr, George Washington University & M. Aminrazavi, University of Mary Washington (Eds)
AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY IN PERSIA, VOL. V
NEW
From the School of Shiraz to the Twentieth Century
S. H. Nasr and M. Aminrazavi
AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY IN PERSIA, VOL. I From Zoroaster to ‘Umar Khayyam 520 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 541 8 HARDBACK £41.50
544 PAGES 234 X 156MM NOVEMBER 2014 9781848857506 HARDBACK £39.50 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES
AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY IN PERSIA, VOL. II Ismaili Thought in the Classical Age 424 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 542 5 HARDBACK £41.50
AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY IN PERSIA, VOL. III Philosophical Theology in the Middle Ages and Beyond 488 PAGES 234 X 156MM 978 1 84511 605 7 HARDBACK £41.50
AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY IN PERSIA, VOL IV From the School of Illumination to Philosophical Mysticism 592 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2012 9781848857490 HARDBACK £39.50
IRAN
New and Recent Titles 2015
A HISTORY OF PERSIAN LITERATURE Ehsan Yarshater, General Editor, Columbia University
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO PERSIAN LITERATURE
PERSIAN POETRY, 1500-1900: FROM THE SAFAVIDS TO THE DAWN OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL MOVEMENT
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. I
A History of Persian Literature,Vol.VII
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM 2008 9781845118860 HARDBACK £59.50
PERSIAN POETRY IN THE CLASSICAL ERA, 800-1500 A History of Persian Literature,Vol. II
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM OCTOBER 2015 9781845119034 HARDBACK £59.50
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM OCTOBER 2015 9781845119089 HARDBACK £59.50
PERSIAN POETRY FROM OUTSIDE IRAN: THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, ANATOLIA AND CENTRAL ASIA AFTER TIMUR A History of Persian Literature,Vol.VIII
PERSIAN POETRY IN THE CLASSICAL ERA, 800-1500
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM OCTOBER 2015 9781845119096 HARDBACK £59.50
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM OCTOBER 2015 9781845119041 HARDBACK £59.50
PERSIAN PROSE FROM OUTSIDE IRAN: THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, ANATOLIA AND CENTRAL ASIA AFTER TIMUR
HEROIC EPIC: THE SHAHNAMEH AND ITS LEGACY
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM OCTOBER 2015 9781845119102 HARDBACK £59.50
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. III
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. IV
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM OCTOBER 2015 9781845119058 HARDBACK £59.50
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. IX
PERSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. X 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM 2012 9781845119119 HARDBACK £59.50
PERSIAN PROSE
A History of Persian Literature,Vol.V 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM OCTOBER 2015 9781845119065 HARDBACK £59.50
RELIGIOUS AND MYSTICAL LITERATURE A History of Persian Literature,Vol.VI
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM OCTOBER 2015 9781845119072 HARDBACK £59.50
LITERATURE OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY A History of Persian Literature,Vol. XI
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM OCTOBER 2015 9781845119126 HARDBACK £59.50
MODERN PERSIAN POETRY, 1940 TO THE PRESENT
MODERN FICTION AND DRAMA
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. XIII 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM OCTOBER 2015 9781845119140 HARDBACK £59.50
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE POETS AND WRITERS OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD A History of Persian Literature,Vol. XIV 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM OCTOBER 2015 9781845119157 HARDBACK £59.50
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE POETS AND WRITERS OF THE MODERN PERIOD; LITERARY TERMS A History of Persian Literature,Vol. XV 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM OCTOBER 2015 9781845119164 HARDBACK £59.50
GENERAL INDEX
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. XVI 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM FEBRUARY 2015 9781845119171 HARDBACK £59.50
LITERATURE OF PRE-ISLAMIC IRAN: COMPANION VOL. I
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. XVII 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM 2008 9781845118877 HARDBACK £59.50
ORAL LITERATURE OF IRANIAN LANGUAGES: KURDISH, PASHTO, BULOCHI, OSSETIC A History of Persian Literature, Vol. XVIII 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM 2010 9781845119188 HARDBACK £59.50
A History of Persian Literature,Vol. XII 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM OCTOBER 2015 9781845119133 HARDBACK £59.50
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Cover Image: ‘Incident in a Mosque’ by Shaykh-Zãda, Herat, c.1527. Courtesy of Sackler Gallery, Harvard Art Museum