IRAN NEW BOOKS 2017
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 2010
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 2009 9781845116910 HARDBACK £41.50
9781845110628 HARDBACK £55.00
THE AGE OF THE PARTHIANS
EARLY ISLAMIC IRAN
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, British Museum, and Sarah Stewart, SOAS, University of London (Eds)
Edmund Herzig, Wadham College, University of Oxord, and Sarah Stewart, SOAS, University of London (Eds)
The Idea of Iran, Vol. 2
176 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2010 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
The Idea of Iran, Vol. 5
304 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2011 9781780760612 HARDBACK £41.50
IRAN
New and Recent Titles 2017 ANCIENT HISTORY
DECLINE OF IRANSHAHR
Irrigation and Environment in the Middle East, 500 BC NEW IN PAPERBACK AD 1500
Peter Christensen,
University of Copenhagen
Western scholars have traditionally explained the history of the Middle East in terms of the rise and fall of dynasties and states. After the glories of a golden age the region is said to have gone into a steady and prolonged decline: yet just how extensive was the contraction of agriculture, how general the de-urbanization? In seeking to answer these questions Peter Christensen provides important insights that challenge our conventional understanding of the history of the region. Through a detailed study of Iranshahr – the region between the Euphrates and Oxus rivers that was ruled by Persia and marked by Persian civilization – the author looks at the changing patterns of settlement and irrigation that occurred, from the heartland of the region to the oases of the Iranian Plateau. He reveals a more complex picture than previously thought, in which war, disease and administrative misrule were all important factors but in which the environment is shown to play a key role. The environmental collapse of Mesopotamia drained the strength of the Persian empire, and the rest of Iranshahr had neither the economic potential nor the population to compensate for the flagging imperial heartland. One consequence was the inability of the Persian empire to maintain a costly regular army; their subsequent dependence upon nomad leaders for military purposes ultimately made such leaders rulers of Iranshahr. 368 PAGES 244 X 172MM JANUARY 2016 9781784533182 PAPERBACK £25.00 530 COLOUR AND B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
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
THE ZOROASTRIAN FLAME
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Exploring Religion, History and Tradition Alan Williams, Sarah Stewart and Almut Hintze (Eds)
Zoroastrianism’s unbroken history, remarkable texts and distinctive beliefs span three millennia, making it one of the world’s most venerable faiths. For many centuries it enjoyed imperial patronage and profoundly shaped the culture of antiquity. The enigmatic figure of Zarathushtra (or Zoroaster) has exerted continual fascination in the West, influencing creative artists as diverse as Voltaire, Nietzsche, Mozart and Yeats. This authoritative volume explores Zoroastrianism in all its rich complexity. Examining key themes, it places the modern Zoroastrians of Iran, and the Parsis of India, in their proper contexts. The book extends and complements the coverage of its companion volume, The Everlasting Flame. 400 PAGES 234 X 156MM FEBRUARY 2016 9781784536336 HARDBACK £68.00
ANCIENT IRAN THROUGH CHINESE RECORDS NEW Commodities and Culture Berthold Laufer
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. 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. 448 PAGES 234 X 156MM FEBRUARY 2017 9781784532017 HARDBACK £75.00
ANCIENT PERSIA IN WESTERN HISTORY Hellenism and the Representation 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
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New and Recent Titles 2017 SASANIAN PERSIA The Rise and Fall of an Empire
THE WORLD OF ACHAEMENID PERSIA
John Curtis and St.John Simpson, British 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
DECLINE AND FALL OF THE SASANIAN EMPIRE The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran
Parvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State University
256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2010 9781850438984 HARDBACK £37.00 9781780763781 PAPERBACK £15.99 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION 32 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
ANCIENT PERSIA
Josef Wiesehöfer, University of Kiel 352 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2014 9781850439998 PAPERBACK £14.99 ILLUSTRATED IN B&W
NEW IN PAPERBACK
552 PAGES 234 X 156MM OCTOBER 2016 9781845116453 HARDBACK £45.00 9781784537470 PAPERBACK £15.99
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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 £17.99
MEDIEVAL CENTRAL ASIA AND THE PERSIANATE WORLD Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilization
A.C.S. Peacock and D.G. Tor 256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781784532390 HARDBACK £69.00
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THE FIRE, THE STAR AND THE CROSS
Minority Religions in Medieval and Early Modern Iran
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Aptin Khanbaghi, University of Cambridge
Contemporary political events have generated a strong interest in minorities in the Middle East. Although today the region is mostly identified with Islam, it has been home to many other great cultures, and the civilization of the Islamic world is itself indebted to the various peoples that the Arabs subdued in the 7th and 8th centuries. Far from fading away after the Arab conquest, the inhabitants of the Iranian plateau and of Mesopotamia were central players in the lives of their regions. However, the magnitude of their contribution to the emergence of the early Islamic world has hitherto been neglected. In this fascinating and groundbreaking study, Khanbaghi offers a comprehensive discussion of those groups that resisted assimilation to the new Islamic order yet continued to participate actively in the socio-political life of their homeland. He concentrates on Iran, which due to its complex religious history offers unique opportunities for the study of non-Muslim communities, specifically of Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians. 288 PAGES 234 X 156MM DECEMBER 2016 9781845110567 HARDBACK £59.50 9781784537463 PAPERBACK £15.99
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IRAN
New and Recent Titles 2017 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 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 2011 9781848853539 HARDBACK £51.50
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES SERIES, VOL. 4
THE ASSASSIN LEGENDS Myths of the Ismailis
Farhad Daftary, The Institute of Ismaili Studies 224 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781850437055 HARDBACK £59.50 9781850439509 PAPERBACK £14.99
EARLY MODERN AND SAFAVID IRAN
THE HISTORY OF THE LATE REVOLUTIONS IN PERSIA NEW
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.
IRAN AND THE WORLD IN THE SAFAVID AGE International Contact and Political Development in Early Modern Persia
Willem Floor and Edmund Herzig, both at University of Oxford (Eds) 544 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2015 9781780769905 PAPERBACK £17.99 40 ILLUSTRATIONS I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
CONVERTING PERSIA Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire
Rula Abisaab, University of Akron, Ohio 256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2015 9781780767789 PAPERBACK £17.99
328, 288, 288 PAGES 234 X 156MM NOVEMBER 2016 9781780764689 HARDBACK £250.00 3 VOLS
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New and Recent Titles 2017
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 2013 9781780760797 HARDBACK £45.00
THE SWORD OF PERSIA Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant
Michael Axworthy, Exeter University 368 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2010 9781845119829 PAPERBACK £14.99
PERSIA IN CRISIS Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan
SAFAVID PERSIA The History and Politics of an Islamic Society
Rudi Matthee, University of Maryland
Charles Melville University of Cambridge (Ed)
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
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 2014 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 2012 9781845118303 PAPERBACK £17.99
IRAN
New and Recent Titles 2017 QAJAR IRAN AND MODERN HISTORY
ON THE SHORES OF THE CASPIAN
BRITISH IMPERIALISM IN QAJAR IRAN
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Commerce and Culture in Nineteenth Century Persia
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Consuls, Agents and Influence in the Middle East
William Richard Holmes 448 PAGES 234 X 156MM FEBRUARY 2017 9781784531515 HARDBACK £85.00
H. Lyman Stebbins,
La Salle University, Philadelphia
FORMING NATIONAL IDENTITY IN IRAN The Idea of Homeland Derived from Ancient Persian and Islamic Imaginations of Place
Spurred by a Russian threat to India and the weakness of the Qajar dynasty (1796-1925), Britain established an extensive consular network to further its interests in southern Iran in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1888, there were just four British consulates in the country; by 1921 there were twenty-three. H. Lyman Stebbins investigates the development and consequences of British imperialism in Iran in a time of international rivalry, revolution and world war. While previous narratives of Anglo-Iranian relations have focused on the highest diplomatic circles in Tehran, London, Calcutta and St. Petersburg, this book argues that British consuls and political agents made the vast southern borderlands of Iran the real centre of British power and influence during this period. Based on British consular archives from Bushehr, Shiraz, Sistan and Muhammarah, this book reveals that Britain, India and Iran were linked together by discourses of colonial knowledge and patterns of political, military and economic control. It also contextualizes the emergence of Iranian nationalism as well as the failure and collapse of the Qajar state during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the First World War.
Ali Mozaffari, University of Western Australia 256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2014 9781780764436 HARDBACK £56.00
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)
304 PAGES 216 X 134MM FEBRUARY 2017 9781784535025 HARDBACK £69.00
288 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781848853911 HARDBACK £59.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 26
PERCEPTIONS OF IRAN History, Myths and Nationalism from Medieval Persia to the Islamic Republic
Ali M Ansari, University of St Andrews
THE BAHA’IS OF IRAN, TRANSCASPIA AND THE CAUCASUS
288 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2013 9781848858305 HARDBACK £56.50 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Reports and Correspondence of Russian Officials
VOLUME 2
INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES
Soli Shahvar, Gad Gilbar and Boris Morozov (Eds)
IRAN BETWEEN ISLAMIC NATIONALISM AND SECULARISM The Constitutional Revolution of 1906
288 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781848853928 HARDBACK £59.50
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THE BAHA’IS OF IRAN, TRANSCASPIA AND THE CAUCASUS
Vanessa Martin, Royal Holloway, University of
TWO VOLUME SET
London
Soli Shahvar, Gad Gilbar and Boris Morozov (Eds)
288 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2013 978178076663888 HARDBACK £56.50
576 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781848854734 HARDBACK £105.00
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF IRAN UNDER THE QAJARS NEW IN PAPERBACK Society, Politics and Foreign Relations 1799 to 1921
Hooshang Amirahmadi, Rutgers University 400 PAGES 234 X 156MM DECEMBER 2016 9781848856721 HARDBACK £59.50 9781784537388 PAPERBACK £15.99
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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
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New and Recent Titles 2017 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
PIVOT OF THE UNIVERSE Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896
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
240 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781860649646 HARDBACK £56.50
Abbas Amanat 568 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845118280 PAPERBACK £16.99 23 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
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 2017 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 MEN OF ORDER Authoritarian Modernization Under Ataturk and Reza Shah
NEW IN PAPERBACK
400 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850433286 HARDBACK £49.00
Touraj Atabaki and Erik J. Zurcher, both at
University of Leiden (Eds)
296 PAGES 216 X 134MM OCTOBER 2016 9781860644269 HARDBACK £59.50 9781784537067 PAPERBACK £14.99
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New and Recent Titles 2017 POLITICS AND CONTEMPORARY IRAN
DIPLOMACY AND REFORM IN IRAN Foreign Policy under Khatami
Edward Wastnidge
REPUBLICAN ISLAM
Power and Authority in Iran
Vahid Nick Pay,
University of Durham NEW
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Nuclear power has for the most part dominated Western media and academic analyses concerning Iranian foreign policy in recent years. This focus, however, can be misleading, especially as regards the early presidency of Mohammad Khatami (1997–2005). In a riposte to Samuel Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilisations’ theory, Khatami proposed that there ought to be a ‘Dialogue among Civilisations’. In this book, Edward Wastnidge examines Khatami’s proposition, derived from the contemporary Iranian polymath Dariush Shayegan, not as a philosophical suggestion, but as a real foreign policy tool that enabled Khatami to make overtures towards the US. Across bi-lateral and multi-lateral examples, he explores its specific application and how it was used to create foreign policy and aid diplomacy. Furthermore, by placing the development of the idea within Iran’s domestic political context, Wastnidge is also able to shed light onto the rise of the reform movement during this period. Based on extensive research, Diplomacy and Reform in Iran is a timely contribution to scholarship, and important reading for students and researchers of contemporary Iran and the complexities of Iranian foreign policy. 256 PAGES 216 X 134MM MAY 2016 9781784533281 HARDBACK £64.00
THE SHAH’S IRAN RISE AND FALL
Conversations with an Insider
Abdolreza Ansari,
translated by Katayoon Ansari-Biglari NEW
When the Islamic Republic of Iran launched its fully-articulated political agenda in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution, it merged the concept of political Islam with the previously secular readings of the republican doctrine of state. This book provides an analysis of the constitutional and institutional structure of public power in the most emblematic instance of a theocratic republic to date: the Islamic Republic of Iran, using the methods of political science. Nearly four decades after the 1979 revolution, a thorough evaluation of Iran’s prevalently anti-modernist political discourse and concurrent claims of republican popular sovereignty is here carried out and their theoretical coherence and applied success investigated. Vahid Nick Pay surveys the major republican schools of political philosophy on the one hand, and the principal narratives of the prevailing Shi’a political theology on the other, to provide a pioneering evaluation of the republican credentials of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It will be essential reading for scholars of political science and modern Iranian politics and history. 352 PAGES 216 X 134MM APRIL 2016 9781784535636 HARDBACK £69.00
IRAN AND PAKISTAN
Security, Diplomacy and American Influence
Alex Vatanka Middle East Institute, Washington DC NEW IN PAPERBACK
A chance encounter diverted Abdolreza Ansari from completing his doctorate in the US, and set him on a professional journey which mirrored the prolific rise and the precipitous fall of the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. Appointed a cabinet minister at the age of just 34, Ansari consistently and methodically used his skills in an attempt to institute modern managerial systems and solid foundations in his various assignments. He went on to have a high-ranking ministerial career ending up in the all-important role of Minister of Interior. His appointment as Managing Director of the Imperial Organisation for Social Services placed him at the centre of power, giving him extraordinary insights into the Iranian political scene of that era. Ansari’s proximity to the Iranian royal court, his encounters with a multitude of well-known personalities and his perceptions of the political culture in 1970s Tehran make this book an important historical source and a fascinating portrayal of the inner workings of the Shah’s Iran. 336 PAGES 216 X 134MM NOVEMBER 2016 9781784536329 HARDBACK £27.50
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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 JULY 2015 9781784532147 HARDBACK £62.00 9781784536909 PAPERBACK £12.99
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New and Recent Titles 2017 THE DISSIDENT MULLAH Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for Reform in Revolutionary Iran
IRAN IN THE MIDDLE EAST Transnational Encounters and Social History
Ulrich Von Schwerin
336 PAGES 216 X 134MM JUNE 2015 9781784531348 HARDBACK £62.00
320 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2015 9781784531737 HARDBACK £62.00 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES
FAMILY LAW IN CONTEMPORARY IRAN Women’s Rights Activism and Shari’a
Marianne Bøe Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Bergen 288 PAGES 216 X 134MM JANUARY 2015 9781780769004 HARDBACK £62.00
Houchang Chehabi (Ed), Boston University
OCCIDENTALISM IN IRAN Representations of the West in the Iranian Media
Ehsan Bakhshandeh 256 PAGES 216 X 134MM SEPTEMBER 2015 9781784531621 HARDBACK £58.00
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EVERYDAY IRAN A Provincial Portrait of the Islamic Republic
Clarissa de Waal, University of Cambridge 256 PAGES 216 X 134MM APRIL 2015 9781780769080, HARDBACK £56.00 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES
POLITICAL ISLAM IN POST REVOLUTIONARY IRAN Shi’i Ideologies in Islamist Discourse
Majid Mohammadi, Glenville State College, West Virginia 288 PAGES 216 X 134MM MAY 2015 9781848852761 HARDBACK £56.50
INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 24
ARAB-IRANIAN RELATIONS
Khair el-Din Haseeb (Ed) Centre for Arab Studies, Beirut 584 PAGES 234 X 156MM MAY 2015 9781780766478 PAPERBACK £25.00 THE CENTRE FOR ARAB UNITY STUDIES
THE SYRIA-IRAN AXIS Cultural Diplomacy and International Relations in the NEW IN PAPERBACK Middle East
Nadia von Maltzahn, Orient Institut, Beirut ARAB-IRANIAN RIVALRY IN THE PERSIAN GULF Territorial Disputes and the Balance of Power in the Middle East
Farzad Cyrus Sharifi, Kings College London 320 PAGES 216 X 134MM JUNE 2015 9781848858220 HARDBACK £59.50
LIBRARY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, VOL. 62
288 PAGES 216 X 134MM APRIL 2015 9781780765372 HARDBACK £69.00 9781784531690 PAPERBACK £16.99
SAUDI ARABIA AND IRAN Power and Rivalry in the NEW IN PAPERBACK Middle East
Simon Mabon, Lancaster University HEALTH AND MEDICAL PRACTICE IN IRAN Traditional Culture and Modern Medicine NEW IN PAPERBACK
320 PAGES 198 X 126MM OCTOBER 2015 9781780763118 HARDBACK £69.00 9781784534660 PAPERBACK £12.99
Agnes Loeffler, University of Wisconsin, USA 224 PAGES 216 X 134MM OCTOBER 2016 9781850439424 HARDBACK £75.00 9781780760445 PAPERBACK £25.00
INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL 6.
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New and Recent Titles 2017 NEW IN PAPERBACK
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 OCTOBER 2016 9781780760896 HARDBACK £56.50 9781784535131 PAPERBACK £17.99
PERSIAN SERVICE The BBC and British Interests in Iran
Annabelle Sreberny and Massoumeh Torfeh both at SOAS, University of London (Eds) 224 PAGES 234 X 156MM JANUARY 2014 9781848859814 HARDBACK £40.00
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
NUCLEAR IRAN The Birth of an Atomic State
David Patrikarakos
256 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2012 9781780761251 HARDBACK £25.00
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
AHMADINEJAD The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader
Kasra Naji
304 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781845116361 PAPERBACK £12.99
KHATAMI AND GORBACHEV Politics of Change in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the USSR
Zhand Shakibi, LSE 400 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2010 9781848851399 HARDBACK £65.00
INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF POLITICAL STUDIES, VOL. 38
CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS WITH IRAN Engaging Muslim Thinkers after the Revolution
Sasan Tavassoli
IRAN AND THE RISE OF ITS NEOCONSERVATIVES The Politics of Tehran’s Silent Revolution
272 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781845117610 HARDBACK £59.50
Anoush Ehteshami and Mahjoob Zweiri, both
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
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
KURDS AND THE STATE IN IRAN The Making of Kurdish Identity
Abbas Vali, Bogaziçi University Istanbul 224 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011
9781848857889 HARDBACK £49.50
INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 36
ISLAM AND DISSENT IN POSTREVOLUTIONARY IRAN Abdolkarim Soroush, Religious Politics and Democratic Reform
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
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320 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845118792 HARDBACK £65.00 9781845118808 PAPERBACK £17.99
IRAN
New and Recent Titles 2017
THE CONSTITUTION OF IRAN Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic
REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY AND ISLAMIC MILITANCY The Iranian Revolution and Interpretations of the Quran
Asghar Schirazi
Najibullah Lafraie
336 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781860642531 PAPERBACK £19.99
288 PAGES 2134 X 216MM 9781845110635 HARDBACK £59.50
INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 13
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
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
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
IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA AND THE GULF Power Politics in Transition
Faisal bin Salman al-Saud 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 2017 RELIGION AND POLITICS IN MODERN IRAN A Reader
CREATING AN ISLAMIC STATE Khomeini and the Making of a New Iran
Lloyd Ridgeon, University of Glasgow 296 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845110734 HARDBACK £65.00 9781845110727 PAPERBACK £15.99
Vanessa Martin, Royal Holloway
INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 3
272 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860649004 PAPERBACK £15.99
APOCALYPTIC ISLAM AND IRANIAN SHI’ISM FROM PALACE TO PRISON Inside the Iranian Revolution
Abbas Amanat, Yale University 304 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781845111243 HARDBACK £59.50 9781845119812 PAPERBACK £16.99
Ehsan Naraghi 392 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850437048 PAPERBACK £49.00
MODERN ISLAMIC POLITICAL THOUGHT
RELIGION AND WAR IN REVOLUTIONARY IRAN
Hamid Enayat, Foreword by Roy Mottahedeh
Saskia Gieling
240 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781850434658 HARDBACK £56.00 9781850434665 PAPERBACK £15.99
216 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860644078 HARDBACK £59.50
GENDER
WOMEN AND EQUALITY IN IRAN
Law, Society and Activism
Mehri Honarbin-Holliday, Canterbury Christ
Leila Alikarami, School of Oriental and
African Studies
Church University
224 PAGES 216 X 134MM APRIL 2013 9781780760865 PAPERBACK £14.99 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 14
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The most important global instrument for ensuring women’s rights is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), yet Iran is not a party to this. Iran’s continued retention of discriminatory laws stands in stark contrast to the advances Iranian women have made in other spheres since the Revolution in 1979. Leila Alikarami here aims to determine the extent to which the actions of women’s rights activists have led to a significant change in their legal status. She argues that while Iranian women have not yet obtained legal equality, the gender bias of the Iranian legal system has been successfully challenged and has lost its legitimacy. More pertinently, the social context has become more prepared to accommodate legal rights for women. Highlighting the key challenges that proponents of gender equality face in the Muslim context, Alikarami attempts to ascertain the causes of Iran’s failure to ratify the CEDAW and questions whether and to what extent interpretations of Islamic principles prevent Iran from doing so. Applying feminist legal theory to contemporary Iran, Alikarami’s approach re-evaluates the underlying principles that have shaped the struggle for equal rights between the sexes. 320 PAGES 216 X 134MM NOVEMBER 2017 9781784533168 HARDBACK £69.00
TRIBESWOMEN OF IRAN Weaving Memories among Qashqa’i Nomads
Julia Huang 288 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2014 9781780765389 PAPERBACK £14.99
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BECOMING VISIBLE IN IRAN Women in Contemporary Iranian Society
FAITH AND FREEDOM Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World
Mahnaz Afkhami (Ed) 256 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860640087 PAPERBACK £14.99
ISLAM AND GENDER The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, SOAS, University of London
344 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781850432685 HARDBACK £59.50 9781850432692 PAPERBACK £16.99
MARRIAGE ON TRIAL Islamic Law in Iran and Morocco
Ziba Mir-Hosseini 264 PAGES 216 X 134MM 9781860646089 PAPERBACK £15.99
IRAN
New and Recent Titles 2017 ART, ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE
EUROPEAN WOMEN IN PERSIAN HOUSES NEW
Western Images in Safavid and Qajar Iran Parviz Tanavoli
During the course of the 19th century, a relatively modern medium entered the private space of Iranian houses of the wealthy and became a popular feature of interior design in Persia. This was print media and the subject was European women.These idealised images adorned houses across the country. The interest in images of Western women was an unusual by-product of Iran’s early political and cultural encounters with the West. In a world where women were rarely seen in public and, even then, were heavily veiled, the notion of European women dressed in elegant and revealing clothing sparked much curiosity among well-to-do merchants and aristocrats.The introduction of such images began in the 17th century with frescoes in royal palaces and spread to other manifestations in the Qajar era. Parviz Tanavoli here brings together the definitive collection of these unique images.
ORIENTALISM VERSUS OCCIDENTALISM Literary and Cultural Imaging between France and Iran since the Islamic Revolution NEW IN PAPERBACK
Laetitia Nanquette
264 PAGES 216 X 134MM OCTOBER 2016 9781848859784 HARDBACK £64.00 9781784537050 PAPERBACK £25.00
PICTURING IRAN Art, Society and Revolution
Lynn Gumpert and Shiva Balaghi, both at
New York University
128 PAGES 246 X 189MM MARCH 2015 9781780768984 PAPERBACK £16.99
PERSIAN KINGSHIP AND ARCHITECTURE Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis
Sussan Babaie, Coulthard Institute and Talinn Grigor, Brandeis University 320 PAGES 256 X 189MM FEBRUARY 2015
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
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
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New and Recent Titles 2017 FILM
IRANIAN CINEMA UNCENSORED
SHI’I ISLAM IN IRANIAN CINEMA Religion and Spirituality in Film
Shiva Rahbaran, University of Oxford
288 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2011 9781848855106 HARDBACK £56.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF CULTURAL STUDIES, VOL. 17
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Contemporary Filmmakers Since the Islamic Revolution Twelve of the most renowned and important filmmakers of contemporary Iran speak candidly about creating cinema in a revolutionised – and traumatised – society. They reflect on the Iranian Revolution and the influence of its aftermath on their work, as well as the effects of their work on audiences. They offer first-hand insights into how the works of Western cinema, as well as Iranian art and poetry, have influenced the making of Iran’s image; and how New Iranian Cinema became a global phenomenon, despite censorship, ideology wars, sanctions and political isolation. 288 PAGES 234 X 156MM DECEMBER 2015 9781784534172 HARDBACK £69.00
THE SINGULAR CINEMA OF ABBAS KIAROSTAMI NEW
Imagined Identities in Iranian Film
Hossein Khosrowjah, California College
of the Arts
The films of Abbas Kiarostami confront the questions of cinematic representation, identity, and the relationship between cinema and everyday life in eloquent and imaginative ways. Through a close examination of Kiarostami’s formal and narrative strategies in his films, notably Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Close-Up and Ten, this innovative book works against the grain of auteurist readings of Kiarostami’s films to explore global circulation and the controversy over censorship’s role in the cinema. It grounds his films firmly within the historical context of Iranian national cinema, revealing the ways in which the reception of films across multiple sites can contribute to how national narratives are articulated locally and globally. It traces Iranian national cinema’s self-reflexive narration of its own history and how, in the process, it positions itself as a major player in the construction of national consciousness. 288 PAGES 234 X 156MM FEBRUARY 2017 9781784535773 HARDBACK £64.00
Nacim Pak-Shiraz
MAKHMALBAF AT LARGE The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker
Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, New York, Foreword by Mohsen Makhmalbaf 272 PAGES 234 X 156MM 9781845115319 HARDBACK £51.50 9781845115326 PAPERBACK £16.99
NEW IRANIAN CINEMA Politics, Representation and Identity
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
IRANIAN CINEMA A Political History
Hamid Reza Sadr 320 PAGES 222 X 172MM 9781845111465 HARDBACK £59.50 9781845111472 PAPERBACK £16.99 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 7
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
THE POETICS OF IRANIAN CINEMA Aesthetics, Modernity and Film after the Revolution
Khatereh Sheibani, University of Guelph, Canada 240 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2011 9781848857414 HARDBACK £54.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 33
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New and Recent Titles 2017 LITERATURE, BIOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL
HAFIZ AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
SA’DI IN LOVE
NEW
A Study of Fourteenth-century Persian Lyric Poetry
Dominic Brookshaw, University of Oxford
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. 288 PAGES 234 X 156MM JUNE 2017 9781848851443 HARDBACK £62.00 BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES, VOL. 3
The Lyrical Verses of Persia’s Master Poet
Homa Katouzian
With poetry which speaks across the ages, Sa’di (1210–81) is a vital classical poet and a towering figure of the medieval Persian canon. Comparable in skill and stature to other Persian poets such as Ferdowsi, Hafez, Rumi and Omar Khayyam, Sa’di’s verses – best known through his ‘Bustan’ and ‘Golestan’ – address universal themes of passion, love and the human condition in works which are both psychologically perceptive and beautifully crafted. His mystical writings, contemporaneous with Rumi, reveal a degree of depth, wisdom and insight which have placed Sa’di in the pantheon of world literature.
208 PAGES 234 X 156MM JUNE 2016 9781784532246 HARDBACK £59.00 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES
THE LITERATURE OF THE IRANIAN DIASPORA Meaning and Identity since the Islamic Revolution
HAFIZ AND THE RELIGION OF LOVE IN CLASSICAL PERSIAN POETRY
Leonard Lewisohn (Ed), Exeter University
Sanaz Fotouhi, University of New South Wales
360 PAGES 234 X 156MM MARCH 2015 9781784532123 PAPERBACK £17.99 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
288 PAGES 216 X 134MM MARCH 2015 9781780767284 HARDBACK £62.00
INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL. 4
THE WILD RUE OF PERSIA Magic, Myth and Folklore in Iran
Bess Donaldson 240PAGES 234 X 156MM MAY 2015 9781780769455 HARDBACK £56.00
LAND OF THE TURQUOISE MOUNTAINS Journeys Across Iran
Cyrus Massoudi
NEW IN PAPERBACK
320 PAGES 216 X 135MM AUGUST 2016 9781848856370 HARDBACK £17.99 9781784535704 PAPERBACK £11.99
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 £65.0
NEW
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
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 2017 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
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
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
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
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A GIRL IN PARIS A Persian Encounter with the West
Shusha Guppy 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
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Manchester and Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California (Eds)
FROM A PERSIAN TEA HOUSE Travels in Old Iran
296 PAGES 234 X 156MM 2010 9781848851559 HARDBACK £54.50 9781848851566 PAPERBACK £16.99 I.B.TAURIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
224 PAGES 198 X 126MM 9781845115005 PAPERBACK £9.99 TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES, VOL 21
Michael Carroll
IRAN
New and Recent Titles 2017 2015 SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT MODERNITY AND THE STATELESS NEW The Kurdish Question in Iran
Abbas Vali, University of Wales, Swansea 256 PAGES 216 X 134MM OCTOBER 2017 9781860640506 HARDBACK £39.50
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
DRIVING CULTURE IN IRAN NEW Law and Society on the Roads of the Islamic Republic
THE COMPLETE FAUNA OF IRAN
Reza Banakar, Lund University
336 PAGES 240 X 170MM 9781850439462 HARDBACK £65.00
304 PAGES 216 X 134MM DECEMBER 2015 9781784534486 HARDBACK £69.00
THE JEWS OF IRAN The History, Religion and Culture of a Community in the Islamic World
Houman M. Sarshar 264 PAGES 216 X 134MM 2014 9781780768885 HARDBACK £65.00
Eskandar Firouz, Former Director of the Department of the Environment in Iran
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
IRAN
New and Recent Titles 2017
A HISTORY OF PERSIAN LITERATURE Ehsan Yarshater, General Editor, Columbia University
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO PERSIAN LITERATURE A History of Persian Literature, Vol. I
PERSIAN POETRY, 1500-1900: FROM THE SAFAVIDS TO THE DAWN OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL MOVEMENT 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 JANUARY 2017 9781845119034 HARDBACK £59.50
PERSIAN POETRY IN THE CLASSICAL ERA, 800-1500
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM DECEMBER 2017 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
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM DECEMBER 2017 9781845119096 HARDBACK £59.50
9781845119133 HARDBACK £59.50
MODERN FICTION AND DRAMA
A History of Persian Literature, Vol. XIII 500 PAGES 225 X 145MM DECEMBER 2017 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 DECEMBER 2017 9781845119157 HARDBACK £59.50
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE POETS AND WRITERS OF THE MODERN PERIOD; LITERARY TERMS
PERSIAN PROSE FROM OUTSIDE IRAN: THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, ANATOLIA AND CENTRAL ASIA AFTER TIMUR
A History of Persian Literature, Vol. XV
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM MARCH 2017 9781845119041 HARDBACK £59.50
HEROIC EPIC: THE SHAHNAMEH AND ITS LEGACY
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM DECEMBER 2017 9781845119102 HARDBACK £59.50
A History of Persian Literature, Vol. XVI
A History of Persian Literature, Vol. III
A History of Persian Literature, Vol. IV
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM DECEMBER 2017 9781845119058 HARDBACK £59.50
A History of Persian Literature, Vol. IX
PERSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
A History of Persian Literature, Vol. X
PERSIAN PROSE
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM 2012 9781845119119 HARDBACK £59.50
500 PAGES 225 X 145MM DECEMBER 2017 9781845119065 HARDBACK £59.50
LITERATURE OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
A History of Persian Literature, Vol. V
RELIGIOUS AND MYSTICAL LITERATURE A History of Persian Literature, Vol. VI
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A History of Persian Literature, Vol. XI
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MODERN PERSIAN POETRY, 1940 TO THE PRESENT
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GENERAL INDEX
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LITERATURE OF PRE-ISLAMIC IRAN: COMPANION VOL. I A History of Persian Literature, Vol. XVII
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Cover Image: Sixteenth-century map of Soltaniyeh, Zanjan, Iran (public