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Political, Social and Cultural History of Modern Iran
Essays in Honour of Ervand Abrahamian
Häftad, 2026
385 kr
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This collection of original chapters in honour of the distinguished historian Ervand Abrahamian addresses hitherto understudied topics in Iranian political, social, and cultural history from the early twentieth century to the present. The sixteen chapters fall into five categories – all areas of …
Loneliest Revolution
A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran
Häftad, 2023
285 kr
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A memoir of life in Iran in the tumultuous years leading up to the 1979 revolution'Offers an intimate window onto the Iranian revolution just when we need to be thinking about it the most' - Marjane Satrapi, writer and film directorRecounts the political contests between Islamists, leftists, and …
Ilkhanid Capital Cities
Transcultural Interactions
Inbunden, 2025
1203 kr
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Ilkhanid Capital Cities studies the capital cities founded by the Mongol Ilkhans in Iran during the Ilkhanid period (1256 1335). It primarily focuses on two major cities in the northwest of Iran, Ghazaniyya and Sultaniyya, and examines how the court-sponsored urban projects in these two cities …
Ilkhanid Capital Cities
Transcultural Interactions
Häftad, 2026
322 kr
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Ilkhanid Capital Cities studies the capital cities founded by the Mongol Ilkhans in Iran during the Ilkhanid period (1256–1335). It primarily focuses on two major cities in the northwest of Iran, Ghazaniyya and Sultaniyya, and examines how the court-sponsored urban projects in these two cities …
Ilkhanid Capital Cities
Transcultural Interactions
E-bok, 2025
420 kr
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Ilkhanid Capital Cities studies the capital cities founded by the Mongol Ilkhans in Iran during the Ilkhanid period (1256–1335). It primarily focuses on two major cities in the northwest of Iran, Ghazaniyya and Sultaniyya, and examines how the court-sponsored urban projects in these two cities …
Ilkhanid Capital Cities
Transcultural Interactions
E-bok, 2025
420 kr
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Ilkhanid Capital Cities studies the capital cities founded by the Mongol Ilkhans in Iran during the Ilkhanid period (1256–1335). It primarily focuses on two major cities in the northwest of Iran, Ghazaniyya and Sultaniyya, and examines how the court-sponsored urban projects in these two cities …
Loneliest Revolution
A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran
Inbunden, 2023
1229 kr
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A memoir of life in Iran in the tumultuous years leading up to the 1979 revolution'Offers an intimate window onto the Iranian revolution just when we need to be thinking about it the most' - Marjane Satrapi, writer and film directorRecounts the political contests between Islamists, leftists, and …
History of Iran’s Modern Economy, 1921–1946
Inbunden, 2027
1089 kr
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This book examines the modernisation of Iran’s economy during the overlooked period from 1921 to 1946. By cross-analysing new and understudied primary sources from North America, Europe and West Asia, it argues how, in spite of challenging circumstances during these years, the country saw …
Subversive Seventies in Tehran
Romancing Revolutions
Inbunden, 2025
1275 kr
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The 1970s are emerging as a pivotal decade in global history, in which enduring and unprecedented revolutionary changes radically altered our conception of society, polity and culture. In this book, Hamid Dabashi gives a potent account of the momentous changes in Iran during this time, mapping the …
Political, Social and Cultural History of Modern Iran
Essays in Honour of Ervand Abrahamian
Inbunden, 2025
2183 kr
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This collection of original chapters in honour of the distinguished historian Ervand Abrahamian addresses hitherto understudied topics in Iranian political, social, and cultural history from the early twentieth century to the present. The sixteen chapters fall into five categories all areas of …
Azeri Turkish Narratives in Twentieth-Century Iran
Resisting Monolingualism
Inbunden, 2025
2437 kr
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Modern Azeri Turkish prose narratives emerged towards the end of the Second World War, a period marked by the rise of multiple hostile ideological trends including Aryanism, centralism, nationalism and archaism all seeking to eradicate the Azeri Turkish language. Azeri Turkish was framed as a …
Azeri Turkish Narratives in Twentieth-Century Iran
Resisting Monolingualism
E-bok, 2025
562 kr
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Modern Azeri Turkish prose narratives emerged towards the end of the Second World War, a period marked by the rise of multiple hostile ideological trends – including Aryanism, centralism, nationalism and archaism – all seeking to eradicate the Azeri Turkish language. Azeri Turkish was framed as a …
Azeri Turkish Narratives in Twentieth-Century Iran
Resisting Monolingualism
E-bok, 2025
562 kr
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Modern Azeri Turkish prose narratives emerged towards the end of the Second World War, a period marked by the rise of multiple hostile ideological trends – including Aryanism, centralism, nationalism and archaism – all seeking to eradicate the Azeri Turkish language. Azeri Turkish was framed as a …
Azeri Turkish Narratives in Twentieth-Century Iran
Resisting Monolingualism
Häftad, 2027
430 kr
Kommande
Modern Azeri Turkish prose narratives emerged towards the end of the Second World War, a period marked by the rise of multiple hostile ideological trends – including Aryanism, centralism, nationalism and archaism – all seeking to eradicate the Azeri Turkish language. Azeri Turkish was framed as a …
Imperial Iran in the Eighteenth Century
Identity and State Formation under Nader
Inbunden, 2026
1439 kr
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The 18th-century ‘interregnum’ between the Safavid and Qajar dynasties remains woefully understudied in Iranian history, regarded as a turbulent and inconsequential gap between two major dynastic periods. This book, however, argues that this period saw the emergence of the idea of Iran as the …
Sovereignty in Iran
Challenges to Eurocentrism from Ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic
Inbunden, 2026
2033 kr
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This book is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary collaborative project examining sovereignties as a plural concept through the case of Iran. In so doing it challenges Eurocentric assumptions in the Humanities and Social Sciences and covers sovereignty from ancient Iran to the Islamic …
Iranian Exiles and Stalin’s Great Terror
State Violence in the 1930s Soviet Union
Av Touraj Atabaki, Lana Ravandi-Fadai
Inbunden, 2026
1371 kr
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While Stalin’s Great Terror has been extensively studied, this is the first book to uncover the fate of Iranian communists and migrant workers in the Soviet Union during the 1930s purges. It reveals how foreign nationals, particularly Iranians, were caught in the machinery of repression during one …
Iranian Exiles and Stalin’s Great Terror
State Violence in the 1930s Soviet Union
Av Touraj Atabaki, Lana Ravandi-Fadai
E-bok, 2026
1679 kr
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While Stalin's Great Terror has been extensively studied, this is the first book to uncover the fate of Iranian communists and migrant workers in the Soviet Union during the 1930s purges. It reveals how foreign nationals, particularly Iranians, were caught in the machinery of repression during one …
Iranian Exiles and Stalin’s Great Terror
State Violence in the 1930s Soviet Union
Av Touraj Atabaki, Lana Ravandi-Fadai
E-bok, 2026
1679 kr
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While Stalin's Great Terror has been extensively studied, this is the first book to uncover the fate of Iranian communists and migrant workers in the Soviet Union during the 1930s purges. It reveals how foreign nationals, particularly Iranians, were caught in the machinery of repression during one …
Muslim-Christian Polemics in Safavid Iran
Inbunden, 2020
1190 kr
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This book explores the history of Muslim-Christian theological exchanges in Iran during the 17th and early 18th centuries. Focused on the work of the renegade missionary ‘Ali Quli Jadid al-Islam (d. 1734), it contributes to ongoing debates on the nature of confessionalism, interreligious …
Muslim-Christian Polemics in Safavid Iran
Häftad, 2022
499 kr
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Focused on the work of the renegade missionary 'Ali Quli Jadid al-Islam (d. 1734), this book contributes to ongoing debates on the nature of confessionalism, interreligious encounters and cultural translation in early modern Muslim empires. By disentangling the connections between polemics and …
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900
Inbunden, 2020
2270 kr
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Integrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia – at a time when Islamic empires were fracturing and new state formations were emerging – this book offers a more global understanding of Persian literary culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. It …
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900
Häftad, 2022
582 kr
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Integrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia at a time when Islamic empires were fracturing and new state formations were emerging this book offers a more global understanding of Persian literary culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. It challenges …
Religion, Orientalism and Modernity
Mahdi Movements of Iran and South Asia
Inbunden, 2022
1898 kr
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An innovative analysis of modernity and Orientalist discourses in Iranian millenarian movements Religion, Orientalism and Modernity explores the emergence in Iran of the revolutionary Babis and reformist Baha'is and their conflict with mainstream Shi'a Muslims, and of the parallel Ahmadi movement …
Religion, Orientalism and Modernity
Mahdi Movements of Iran and South Asia
Häftad, 2023
488 kr
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Analyses modernity and Orientalist discourses in Iranian millenarian movements Employs historical and discourse analysis to probe the conflict between orthodox and heterodox religious movements in 19th- and 20th-century IranLinks the conflict between orthodoxy and heterodoxy to the impact of …
Last Muslim Intellectual
The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
Inbunden, 2021
1413 kr
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This book explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923–69) – arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his time – and contends that he was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism, before the militant Islamism of the last …
Last Muslim Intellectual
The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
Häftad, 2022
657 kr
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Explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923 69) arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his timeA social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, a seminal Muslim public intellectual of the mid-20th centuryPlaces Al-e Ahmad's writing and activities alongside …
Persian Prison Poem
Sovereignty and the Political Imagination
Inbunden, 2021
1414 kr
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Through a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry. It traces the political role of poetry in shaping the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across 12th-century Central, South and West Asia. Bringing theorists as wide ranging as …
Persian Prison Poem
Sovereignty and the Political Imagination
Häftad, 2023
680 kr
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The first English-language study of the Persian prison poemDevelops a new approach to genre, based on the political status of the prison poem Offers an unprecedented account of the interrelations of poetry and power in pre-modern literature Sheds new light on Muslim Christian relations by …
Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary
Inbunden, 2023
1203 kr
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Explores and theorises the modern and contemporary art of Iran from the mid-twentieth century to the presentCritically rereads the concepts of modern and contemporary art in the context of IranDiscusses discourses such as nativism, nationalism, anti-westernism or Gharb-zadegi (Westoxification), …
