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Iranian Studies
Selected Writings
Inbunden, 2026
2861 kr
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This volume offers a selected range of writings that explore key themes in the intellectual, literary, social, and political history of modern Iran. Focusing primarily on the transformative periods from the nineteenth century to the present, the book brings together in-depth studies and analytical …
Messiah of Shiraz
Studies in Early and Middle Babism
Inbunden, 2008
4890 kr
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The 19th century saw an enormous shift in the authority structure of Iranian and Iraqi Twelver Shiʿism, with the victory of a theological school (Usulism) that stressed the power of the clergy. This is well known. What is less well known is that there was a parallel development of authority in the …
East and West of Zagros
Travel, War and Politics in Persia and Iraq, 1913-1921
Av Edmonds, Yann Richard
Inbunden, 2009
3246 kr
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C.J. Edmonds published articles in orientalist journals and co-authored with Taufiq Wahby A Kurdish-English dictionary (Oxford, 1966). He published his memoirs of Iraq, Kurds, Turks, and Arabs : politics, travel and research in North-Eastern Iraq, 1919-1925 (London - New York, 1957), but his …
Theater State and the Formation of Early Modern Public Sphere in Iran
Studies on Safavid Muharram Rituals, 1590-1641 CE
Av Babak Rahimi
Inbunden, 2011
2894 kr
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During the Safavid period, the Shi'i Muharram commemorative rites which had been publically practiced since the 7th century, became a manifestation of state power. Already during the reign of Shah 'Abbas I (1587-1629) the Muharram rituals had transformed into an extraordinary rich repertoire of …
Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s
Inbunden, 2012
2365 kr
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This volume looks at hospitals in the post-medieval Indo-Iranian world from various perspectives. During the Safavid-Mughal periods hospitals were still tied to Avicennian medicine. However, in Qajar Iran and British India hospitals became important instruments for the spread of modern Western …
Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th - 15th Century Tabriz
Inbunden, 2013
3170 kr
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In Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th – 15th Century Tabriz, an international group of specialists from different disciplines investigate the role of Tabriz as one of the foremost centres of learning, cultural productivity, and politics in post-Mongol Iran and the Middle …
Wrestling with the Demons of the Pahlavi Widēwdād
Transcription, Translation, and Commentary
Inbunden, 2014
3637 kr
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The Pahlavi Widēwdād (Vidēvdād), The Law (Serving to Keep) Demons Away, a fifth-century Middle Persian commentary on the Avestan Vidēvdād, describes rules and regulations that serve to prevent pollution caused by dead matter, menstrual discharges, and other agents. It recognizes the perpetual …
Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality
Studies in Anthropological History
Av Denise Aigle
Inbunden, 2014
2550 kr
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In The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality, Denise Aigle presents the Mongol empire as a moment of contact between political ideologies, religions, cultures and languages, and, in terms of reciprocal representations, between the Far East, the Muslim East, and the Latin West. The first part is …
Iran in the Early Islamic Period
Politics, Culture, Administration and Public Life between the Arab and the Seljuk Conquests, 633-1055
Av Bertold Spuler, Robert G. Hoyland m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
5331 kr
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This book presents a translation of Bertold Spuler’s groundbreaking work on the transformation of Iran from a Persian Zoroastrian Empire to a province of the Arab Muslim Empire to a land divided by a number of Persian and Turkish kingdoms.
Regards français sur le coup d'État de 1921 en Perse
Journaux personnels de Georges Ducrocq et Hélène Hoppenot
Av Georges Ducrocq, Hélène Hoppenot m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
3949 kr
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Il existe peu de documents originaux pour permettre aux historiens de comprendre comment le coup d’État de Seyyed Ziya et de Reza Khan en 1921 s’est déroulé. Les journaux de deux diplomates français, Georges Ducrocq (attaché militaire) et Hélène Hoppenot (épouse du chargé d’affaires) nous donnent …
Ästhetik, Politik und schiitische Repräsentation im zeitgenössischen Iran
Inbunden, 2017
2170 kr
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In Ästhetik, Politik und schiitische Repräsentation im zeitgenössischen Iran zeigt Christian Funke die Verflechtungen von Politik, Protest und schiitischer Materialität in der Islamischen Republik auf. Das Buch legt anschaulich und vielschichtig dar, wie die Proteste von 2009 und die ›Grüne …
Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies
Essays in Memory of Hossein Ziai
Av Ali Gheissari, Ahmed Alwishah m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2170 kr
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The late Professor Hossein Ziai’s interests focused on the Illuminationist (Ishrāqī) tradition. Dedicated to his memory, this volume deals with the post-Avicennan philosophical tradition in Iran, and in particular the Illuminationist school and later philosophers, such as those associated with the …
Persianate World
Rethinking a Shared Sphere
Av Abbas Amanat
Inbunden, 2018
2056 kr
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The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first books to explore the pre-modern and early modern historical ties among such diverse regions as Anatolia, the Iranian plateau, Central Asia, Western Xinjiang, the Indian subcontinent, and southeast Asia, as well as the circumstances …
Weltgeschichtsschreibung zwischen Schia und Sunna
Ḫvāndamīrs Ḥabīb as-siyar im Handschriftenzeitalter
Inbunden, 2021
2298 kr
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In Weltgeschichtsschreibung zwischen Schia und Sunna, Philip Bockholt addresses the question of how history was written in the premodern Islamic world, and offers new insights into one of the most important chronicles composed in Persian, Khvāndamīr’s universal history Ḥabīb al-siyar. Taking into …
Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran
Reproduction of an Archetype: Episodes of Urbanism 1945–1979
Av Rana Habibi
Inbunden, 2020
1959 kr
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In Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran – Reproduction of an Archetype, Rana Habibi offers an engaging analysis of the modern urban history of Tehran during the Cold War period: 1945–1979. The book, while arguing about the institutionalism of modernity in the form of modern middle-class housing in …
Contributions to Zagrology
V. F. Minorsky and C. J. Edmonds Correspondence (1928-1965)
Av Gennady Kurin, Metin Atmaca
Inbunden, 2024
2136 kr
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This volume is an annotated correspondence, of nearly forty years, between two prominent Orientalists. The letters cover a range of topics related to the Zagros Mountains, its peoples, their history, culture, and languages. They also offer a glimpse into the personal lives and careers of the two …
Saints hommes de Chiraz et du Fārs
Pouvoir, société et lieux de sacralité (Xe-XVe s.)
Av Denise Aigle
Inbunden, 2023
2261 kr
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In Saints hommes de Chiraz et du Fārs. Pouvoir, société et lieux de sacralité (Xe-XVe s.), Denise Aigle studies the spiritual role, but also the political one, played by the Sufi shaykhs. From the tenth century, Fārs was a a land of holiness with Shaykh Kabīr in Shiraz and Murshid al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq …
Exercising Authority and Representing Rule, Eighteenth-Century Persian decrees from the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad
Inbunden, 2023
1736 kr
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In Exercising Authority and Representing Rule, András Barati examines twenty-two hitherto unpublished Persian royal decrees issued by various rulers of eighteenth-century Iran and Afghanistan kept at the Āstān-i Quds-i Rażawī in Mashhad. Considering the paucity of primary sources from this period …
Studies in Iranian History and Culture
In Honor of Elton L. Daniel
Inbunden, 2025
2303 kr
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This Festschrift volume presents eleven essays on Iran in honor of the eminent scholar of Iranian studies, Professor Elton L. Daniel, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. The diversity and wide range of topics and eras critically explored in this volume highlight the remarkable breadth of the …
Qajars and Catholics
Tehran, the Vatican and the Lazarist Mission in Iran
Inbunden, 2025
2603 kr
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The relationship between the Qajar rulers of Iran and the Vatican constitutes a little-known thread of diplomatic and cultural interaction, sustained by Papal correspondence, gift-giving, Apostolic Delegates and mutual respect, which spanned the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The …
Music in the Safavid Era (1501-1736)
Four Texts and Their Translations
Inbunden, 2026
2199 kr
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This volume presents four Persian musical texts from 16th- and 17th-century Iran, each offering invaluable insights into the musical norms and repertoire of the Safavid court. Their well-established dates of composition and places of origin further allow us to trace the trajectory of musical …
Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry
Inbunden, 2011
2726 kr
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This volume is a collection of essays on classical Persian literature, focusing on Persian rhetorical devices, especially imagery and metaphors. The various contributions discuss the origin and the development of debate poetry, the transmission of Persian and Arabic tales to the works of Europeans …
