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111 produkter
Persian Calligraphy
A Corpus Study of Letterforms
Inbunden, 2019
2201 kr
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This book is an exploratory adventure to defamiliarize calligraphy, especially Persian Nastaliq calligraphic letterforms, and to look beyond the tradition that has always considered calligraphy as pursuant to and subordinate to linguistic practices.Calligraphy can be considered a visual …
Iranian National Cinema
The Interaction of Policy, Genre, Funding and Reception
Inbunden, 2020
2137 kr
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This book examines transformations in the production and domestic and international reception of Iranian cinema between 2000 and 2013 through the intersection of the political markers – the presidential terms of Reformist president Mohammad Khatami and his successor, the conservative Mahmoud …
Iran and Palestine
Past, Present, Future
Av Seyed Alavi
Inbunden, 2019
2517 kr
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Examining the nature of relations between Iran and Palestine, this book investigates the relationship between state and authorities in the Middle East. Analysing the connections of the Iranian revolutionary movements, both the Left and the Islamic camps’ perspectives are scrutinized. To provide a …
Iran and Palestine
Past, Present, Future
Av Seyed Alavi
Häftad, 2019
649 kr
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Examining the nature of relations between Iran and Palestine, this book investigates the relationship between state and authorities in the Middle East. Analysing the connections of the Iranian revolutionary movements, both the Left and the Islamic camps’ perspectives are scrutinized. To provide a …
Judeo-Persian Writings
A Manifestation of Intellectual and Literary Life
Häftad, 2024
427 kr
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Introducing Judeo-Persian writings, this original collection gives parallel samples in Judeo-Persian and Perso-Arabic script and translations in English. Judeo-Persian writings not only reflect the twenty-seven centuries of Jewish life in Iran, but they are also a testament to their intellectual, …
Secularization of Islam in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Inbunden, 2021
2517 kr
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Examining the trajectory of the secularization of Islam in Iran, this book explains how efforts to Islamize society led, self-destructively, to its secularization. The research engages a range of debates across different fields, emphasizing the political and epistemological instability of the basic …
Secularization of Islam in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Häftad, 2023
649 kr
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Examining the trajectory of the secularization of Islam in Iran, this book explains how efforts to Islamize society led, self-destructively, to its secularization. The research engages a range of debates across different fields, emphasizing the political and epistemological instability of the basic …
Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran
An Intellectual History of the Constitutional Revolution
Häftad, 2020
722 kr
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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 …
Persian Literature and Modernity
Production and Reception
Av Hamid Rezaei Yazdi, Arshavez Mozafari
Häftad, 2020
830 kr
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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 …
Iran's Green Movement
Everyday Resistance, Political Contestation and Social Mobilization
Inbunden, 2021
2517 kr
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This book examines the emergence and development of the 2009 Green Movement in Iran. The approach emphasizes the context and the local and historical specificities in which mass oppositional movements arise, develop and conduct their operations. Meanwhile, it foregrounds an account of multiple …
Iran's Green Movement
Everyday Resistance, Political Contestation and Social Mobilization
Häftad, 2023
649 kr
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This book examines the emergence and development of the 2009 Green Movement in Iran. The approach emphasizes the context and the local and historical specificities in which mass oppositional movements arise, develop and conduct their operations. Meanwhile, it foregrounds an account of multiple …
Translating Rumi into the West
A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond
Inbunden, 2023
2458 kr
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Focusing on Rumi, the best-selling Persian mystical poet of the 13th century, this book investigates the reception of his work and thought in North America and Europe – and the phenomenon of ‘Rumimania’ – to elucidate the complexities of intercultural communication between the West and the Iranian …
Translating Rumi into the West
A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond
Häftad, 2024
746 kr
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Focusing on Rumi, the best-selling Persian mystical poet of the 13th century, this book investigates the reception of his work and thought in North America and Europe – and the phenomenon of ‘Rumimania’ – to elucidate the complexities of intercultural communication between the West and the Iranian …
Persian Calligraphy
A Corpus Study of Letterforms
Häftad, 2021
638 kr
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This book is an exploratory adventure to defamiliarize calligraphy, especially Persian Nastaliq calligraphic letterforms, and to look beyond the tradition that has always considered calligraphy as pursuant to and subordinate to linguistic practices.Calligraphy can be considered a visual …
Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Between Ideology and Pragmatism
Inbunden, 2020
2517 kr
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Providing a well-balanced and impartial perspective on the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, this book contributes to a better understanding of the current foreign policy of Iran, especially its internal and external determinants.Combining theoretical and practical aspects, it …
Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Between Ideology and Pragmatism
Häftad, 2020
634 kr
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Providing a well-balanced and impartial perspective on the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, this book contributes to a better understanding of the current foreign policy of Iran, especially its internal and external determinants.Combining theoretical and practical aspects, it …
Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam
Qur'an, Exegesis, Messianism and the Literary Origins of the Babi Religion
Av Todd Lawson
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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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 …
Sih-Rozag in Zoroastrianism
A Textual and Historico-Religious Analysis
Häftad, 2019
693 kr
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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 …
Thousand and One Borders of Iran
Travel and Identity
Häftad, 2019
693 kr
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A country marked by controversy, Iran’s social, cultural and political dynamics are too often reduced to a few misleading clichés. Islamism is widely considered to shape all social relations in Iranian society and, while Iranian society is indeed Islamic, this term’s multiple meanings in everyday …
Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction
Who Writes Iran?
Häftad, 2019
545 kr
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The main focus of Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction is to identify components and elements which define Persian modernist fiction, placing an emphasis on literary concepts and devices which provide the dynamics of the evolutionary trajectory of this modernism. The question of …
Persian Language, Literature and Culture
New Leaves, Fresh Looks
Häftad, 2019
830 kr
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Critical approaches to the study of topics related to Persian literature and Iranian culture have evolved in recent decades. The essays included in this volume collectively demonstrate the most recent creative approaches to the study of the Persian language, literature, and culture, and the way …
Daeva Cult in the Gathas
An Ideological Archaeology of Zoroastrianism
Av Amir Ahmadi
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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Addressing the question of the origins of the Zoroastrian religion, this book argues that the intransigent opposition to the cult of the daēvas, the ancient Indo-Iranian gods, is the root of the development of the two central doctrines of Zoroastrianism: cosmic dualism and eschatology (fate of the …
Kirman and the Qajar Empire
Local Dimensions of Modernity in Iran, 1794-1914
Häftad, 2019
743 kr
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Despite its apparently peripheral location in the Qajar Empire, Kirman was frequently found at the centre of developments reshaping Iran in the 19th century. Over the Qajar period the region saw significant changes, as competition between Kirmani families rapidly developed commercial cotton and …
Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi
Building an Ark
Häftad, 2019
830 kr
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Writing in the eighteenth century, the Persian-language litterateurs of late Mughal Delhi were aware that they could no longer take for granted the relations of Persian with Islamic imperial power, relations that had enabled Persian literary life to flourish in India since the tenth century …
Iran and the Nuclear Question
History and Evolutionary Trajectory
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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Spanning over a period of more than five decades since its inception, Iran’s nuclear programme is the most protracted civilian nuclear program in the world and one of the most politicized projects in Iran’s history.'Iran and the Nuclear Question' offers a historiographical portrait of Iran’s early …
True Dream
Indictment of the Shiite clerics of Isfahan, an English translation with facing Persian text
Av Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Sen McGlinn
Häftad, 2019
830 kr
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The True Dream is a Persian satirical drama set in Isfahan in the lead up to Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11. Although its three authors hail from the clerical class, they criticize the arrogance, corruption and secularity of the Iranian ruling dynasty and clergy, taking Isfahan as …
Popular Iranian Cinema before the Revolution
Family and Nation in Fīlmfārsī
Häftad, 2019
712 kr
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Critics and academics have generally dismissed the commercial productions of the late Pahlavi era, best known for their songs and melodramatic plots, as shallow, derivative ‘entertainment’. Instead, they have concentrated on the more recent internationally acclaimed art films, claiming that these …
Journalism in Iran
From Mission to Profession
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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This book charts the development of professional journalism in Iran since the 1979 Revolution that replaced the monarchy with an Islamic Republic. Written to pay homage to Iranian journalists, the book focuses on newspapers, radio and television providing a fuller picture of Iran’s media …
Sadeq Hedayat
His Work and his Wondrous World
Inbunden, 2007
2904 kr
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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 is the …
Iran in the 21st Century
Politics, Economics & Conflict
Av Homa Katouzian, Hossein Shahidi
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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Iran is an ancient country, an oil-exporting economy and an Islamic Republic. It experienced two full-scale revolutions in the twentieth century, the latter of which had large and important regional and international consequences, including an eight-year war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. And now in …
