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Iranian Studies


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Since 1967 the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) has been a leading learned society for the advancement of new approaches in the study of Iranian society, history, culture, and literature. The new ISIS Iranian Studies series published by Routledge will provide a venue for the publication of original and innovative scholarly works in all areas of Iranian and Persianate Studies.

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Iranian-Russian Encounters Empires and Revolutions since 1800

Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions since 1800

1st Edition

Edited By Stephanie Cronin
September 11, 2014

Over the past two hundred years, encounters between Iran and Russia have been both rich and complex. This book explores the myriad dimensions of the Iranian-Russian encounter during a dramatic period which saw both Iran and Russia subject to revolutionary upheavals and transformed from ...

Islamic Tolerance Amir Khusraw and Pluralism

Islamic Tolerance: Amir Khusraw and Pluralism

1st Edition

By Alyssa Gabbay
August 12, 2014

Although pluralism and religious tolerance are most often associated today with Western Enlightenment thinkers, the roots of these ideologies stretch back to non-Western and premodern societies, including many under Muslim rule. This book explores the development of pluralism in Islam in South Asia...

City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran Shiraz, History and Poetry

City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran: Shiraz, History and Poetry

1st Edition

By Setrag Manoukian
March 19, 2014

This book presents a cultural history of modern Iran from the point of view of Shiraz, a city famous for its poetry and its traditions of scholarship. Exploring the relationship among history, poetry and politics, the book analyses how Shiraz came to be defined as the country’s cultural capital, ...

Domestic Violence in Iran Women, Marriage and Islam

Domestic Violence in Iran: Women, Marriage and Islam

1st Edition

By Zahra Tizro
March 07, 2014

This book offers a new methodological and theoretical approach to the highly sensitive and complicated issue of violence against women in contemporary Iran. Challenging the widespread notion that secularisation and modernisation are the keys to emancipating women, the author instead posits that ...

Gender in Contemporary Iran Pushing the Boundaries

Gender in Contemporary Iran: Pushing the Boundaries

1st Edition

Edited By Roksana Bahramitash, Eric Hooglund
March 07, 2014

This book examines gender and the dynamics of social change in contemporary Iran, documenting the changes in women’s lives and showing how women have now become agents of social change rather than victims. Bringing together the detailed primary research of a number of eminent scholars working in ...

New Perspectives on Safavid Iran Empire and Society

New Perspectives on Safavid Iran: Empire and Society

1st Edition

Edited By Colin P. Mitchell
March 07, 2014

Dedicated to the renowned Safavid historian Roger Savory, this book brings together a collection of studies on the Safavid state of Iran (1501-1722) from the perspectives of political, social, literary, and artistic history. Savory, a doyen of Safavid studies in the 1960s and 1970s, was ...

Continuity in Iranian Identity Resilience of a Cultural Heritage

Continuity in Iranian Identity: Resilience of a Cultural Heritage

1st Edition

By Fereshteh Davaran
February 25, 2014

Despite changes in sovereignty and in religious thought, certain aspects of Iranian culture and identity have persisted since antiquity. Drawing on an exploration of history, religion and literature to define Iranian cultural identity and link the Persian past with more recent cultural and ...

Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan Anomalous Visions of History and Form

Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan: Anomalous Visions of History and Form

1st Edition

By Wali Ahmadi
February 25, 2014

With the unleashing of the "War on Terror" in the aftermath of 9/11, Afghanistan has become prominent in the news. However, we need to appreciate that no substantive understanding of contemporary history, politics and society of this country can be achieved without a thorough analysis of the Afghan...

The Sih-Rozag in Zoroastrianism A Textual and Historico-Religious Analysis

The Sih-Rozag in Zoroastrianism: A Textual and Historico-Religious Analysis

1st Edition

By Enrico Raffaelli
December 23, 2013

Focusing on the Avestan and Pahlavi versions of the Sīh-rōzag, a text worshipping Zoroastrian divine entities, this book explores the spiritual principles and physical realities associated with them. Introducing the book is an overview of the structural, linguistic and historico-religious elements...

Iran Politics, History and Literature

Iran: Politics, History and Literature

1st Edition

By Homa Katouzian
January 29, 2013

This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine. Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society ...

Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam Qur'an, Exegesis, Messianism and the Literary Origins of the Babi Religion

Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam: Qur'an, Exegesis, Messianism and the Literary Origins of the Babi Religion

1st Edition

By Todd Lawson
December 08, 2011

Of the several works on the rise and development of the Babi movement, especially those dealing with the life and work of its founder, Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi, few deal directly with the compelling and complex web of mysticism, theology and philosophy found in his earliest compositions. This ...

Sadeq Hedayat His Work and his Wondrous World

Sadeq Hedayat: His Work and his Wondrous World

1st Edition

Edited By Homa Katouzian
March 14, 2011

Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collection provides detailed scholarly analysis of Hedayat's life and work using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches. Hedayat ...

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