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Edited by Güneş Murat Tezcür

The Kurdish question remains one of the most important and complicated issues in ethnic politics in contemporary times, with the Kurds being one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a state of their own. This comprehensive volume brings together a group of distinguished scholars to…

Hardback – 2019-05-06 
Routledge
Association for the Study of Nationalities

Edited by Goli M. Rezai-Rashti, Golnar Mehran, Shirin Abdmolaei

Drawing on the complexities and nuances in women’s education in relation to the aftermath of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, this edited collection examines implications of religious-based policies on gender relations as well as the unanticipated outcomes of increasing participation of women in…

Hardback – 2019-03-07 
Routledge
Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education

Edited by Lloyd Ridgeon

Previously published as a special issue of British Journal of Middle East Studies, this volume focuses on leading figures within Iran between 1997-2007 and their visions and works that are related to Iranian society. A cross section of opinion is investigated, including the clerical (‘Ali Khameneh…

Paperback – 2019-02-07
Routledge

By Ahmad Hashemi

Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is an original historiographic examination of the idea of freedom in early modern Iran within a larger context of the formation of modern Muslim thought. The study develops an appropriate method for the historiography of ideas by taking into consideration…

Hardback – 2019-01-03
Routledge
Iranian Studies

Edited by Hamid Rezaei Yazdi, Arshavez Mozafari

Persian Literature and Modernity recasts the history of modern literature in Iran by elucidating the bonds between the classical tradition and modernity and exploring textual, generic and discursive formations through heterodoxical investigations. This is first done through the rehabilitation of…

Hardback – 2018-12-11
Routledge
Iranian Studies

By Amin Sharifi Isaloo

A ground-breaking study of political transformations in non-Western societies, this book applies anthropological, sociological and political concepts to the recent history of Iran to explore the role played by a ritual theatrical performance (Ta’ziyeh) and its symbols on the construction of public…

Paperback – 2018-10-26
Routledge
Contemporary Liminality

Edited by Siamak Seyfi, C. Michael Hall

Iran has long been regarded as an international pariah state in some parts of the international community. However, its negative image in many countries disguises its history of tourism and rich cultural and natural heritage. Following the July 2015 nuclear deal and the reduction in sanctions, Iran…

Hardback – 2018-10-02
Routledge
Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

By Reese Erlich

Based on frequent, first-hand reporting in Iran and the United States, The Iran Agenda Today explores the turbulent recent history between the two countries and reveals how it has led to a misguided showdown over nuclear technology. Foreign correspondent Reese Erlich notes that all the major…

Paperback – 2018-09-21
Routledge

By Nobuaki Kondo

The relationship between Islamic law and society is an important issue in Iran under the Islamic Republic. Although Islamic law was a pivotal element in the traditional Iranian society, no comprehensive research has been made until today. This is because modern reformers emphasized the lack of rule…

Paperback – 2018-08-14
Routledge
Royal Asiatic Society Books

By Shima Mohajeri

Architectures of Transversality investigates the relationship between modernity, space, power, and culture in Iran. Focusing on Paul Klee’s Persian-inspired miniature series and Louis Kahn’s unbuilt blueprint for a democratic public space in Tehran, it traces the architectonics of the present as a…

Hardback – 2018-07-26
Routledge
Routledge Research in Architecture

Edited by IISS

Since at least 2001, the Middle East has been the focal point of American foreign policy and military strategy. The shock of 9/11 brought the US and its allies first into Afghanistan and then, via grim momentum and fraught logic, into Iraq. But the United States has of course been engaged in the…

Hardback – 2018-07-19
Routledge
Critical Themes in Contemporary Security

By George Bournoutian

This book seeks, for the first time, to examine the demography and the social and economic conditions in the Yerevan Province during the first decade of the twentieth century, before the great changes that occurred during World War I and the seven decades of Soviet rule. Unlike in Tiflis and Baku,…

Hardback – 2018-05-23
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Armenian Studies