Routledge Library Editions: Iran – serie
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Nasirean Ethics (RLE Iran C)
Häftad, 2023
539 kr
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The Nasirean Ethics is the best known ethical digest to be composed in medieval Persia, if not in all mediaeval Islam. It appeared initially in 633/1235 when Tūsī was already a celebrated scholar, scientist, politico-religious propagandist. The work has a special significance as being composed by …
Iraq and Iran (RLE Iran A)
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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Behind the Iran-Iraq war rests a history of conflict stretching back to the Ottoman Turks and the Persians. This book examines the deep-seated and complex factors involved in the rivalry between these two nations. It focuses particularly on the period between 1969 and 1984, a time that saw both the …
Iran-Iraq War (RLE Iran A)
Av M. EL-Azhary
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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The Iran-Iraq war broke out in September 1980. It brought death and suffering to hundreds of thousands of people on both sides and devastated the economies of both countries. It also increased international tensions by precipitating new alliances and rearrangement of forces in the already turbulent …
Modern Iran (RLE Iran A)
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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This volume shows the progress and achievements of Iran up to the 1940s within the setting of her ancient history and her strategic position in the world today. The author discusses Iran’s vital position as the dividing line between the East and the West and how Iran drew from and contributed to …
Persia (RLE Iran A)
Av Richard Frye
Inbunden, 2011
762 kr
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This volume is a fascinating portrait of a part of the world uneasily balanced between many loyalties – East and West, European and Arabic. The coronation of the Shah in 1967 marked the end of the need for foreign aid, and Iran emerged from her struggles to become the leading nation in the Middle …
Persia and the Victorians (RLE Iran A)
Av Marzieh Gail
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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The impact of Persian life and literature upon Victorian England was tremendous. It found its public demonstration in the visit of the Shah, but the number of men of letters who turned to the Persian classics for inspiration were as numerous as they were great: William Jones, Charles Murray, Edward …
Studies in Ancient Persian History (RLE Iran A)
Av P. Kershasp
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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This volume lays the foundation of a “correct” view of ancient Persian history, which, in the author’s opinion, had hitherto been approached from a “biased standpoint.” It presents a survey of ancient and modern historians such as Gibbon, Malcolm and Rawlinson and critiques their work – either for …
Struggle for Persia (RLE Iran A)
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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This volume is an account of the journey the author made between Eastern Russia (via Tabriz) to Teheran at the turn of the twentieth century. This is not just a travelogue, however, but a lament for the loss of British “prestige” and power in the region to Russia.
Persia and its People (RLE Iran A)
Av Ella Sykes
Inbunden, 2011
1024 kr
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This volume gives a popular description of Iran and was the result of the author’s extensive travelling in the country and close knowledge of its people and customs over a period of 3 years at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Persian Gulf (RLE Iran A)
Inbunden, 2011
3147 kr
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This volume records the history of the Persian Gulf from the very earliest records until the 1920s. It records the rise and fall of ancient Empires and discusses the rule of Turks and Arabs. It chronicles the Western maritime nations – the Portuguese, Dutch, French and British – outstrip one …
Persian Anthology (RLE Iran B)
Being Translations from the Persian
Inbunden, 2011
2879 kr
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This volume contains thirty-five translations of Persian poetry, arranged in five groups as well as two examples of prose translations from Arabic, which offer examples of ‘rhymed prose’ of which the earliest examples are to be found in the Koran. To help the reader, a substantial introduction on …
In Search of Omar Khayyam (RLE Iran B)
Av Ali Dashti
Inbunden, 2011
2879 kr
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Khayyam has been the subject of speculation on the part of literary critics ever since Edward Fitzgerald published his own version of the Rubaiyat in 1859. This edition represented the first opportunity to study in English the work of Khayyam by a Persian scholar. There is no conclusive evidence to …
Epic of the Kings (RLE Iran B)
Shah-Nama the national epic of Persia
Av Ferdowsi
Inbunden, 2011
3514 kr
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‘Among the many national poets of historical Persia, Ferdowsi is perhaps the greatest...In this superb translation of the epic, the Western reader would not fail to discern clear equivalents of chapters in Genesis, The Odyssey, Paradise Lost or the Canterbury Tales.’ Islamic ReviewThe Shah-nama is …
Javid-Nama (RLE Iran B)
Inbunden, 2011
876 kr
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Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1873-1938) was not only amongst the leading political figures of his time, but regarded by many as the spiritual father of Pakistan and a great champion of the reform movement of modern Islam. He was also a poet, in both Urdu and Persian. The recurrent theme of his poems is the …
Persian Language (RLE Iran B)
Av Reuben Levy
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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This book describes the structure of modern Persia, showing the methods by which it conveys meaning in sentences and connected passages and illustrating its special characteristics. As an introduction there is a brief account of Persia, its inhabitants, their occupations and beliefs; some attempt …
Concise Dictionary of the Persian Language
Av E Palmer
Inbunden, 2011
3147 kr
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The aim of this dictionary was to provide reference of all the words in use in colloquial Persian, particularly for beginners. Especially for the candidates in the Indian Civil Service, all the words in the Gulistán and other prescribed text-books were also included.
Ibn Yamin (RLE Iran B)
100 Short Poems The Persian Text With Paraphrase
Av E. Rodwell
Inbunden, 2011
2445 kr
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This volume gives a brief outline of the life of Ibn Yamin (who died in 1367), based on the biography of Rashid-i-Yásimi and the background of his writing at a time when the Sultans of Khurásán at a time when they were constantly at war with one another. This version of the Qita’s was collated from …
Indo-Iranian Studies
Being Commemorative Papers contributed by European, American and Indian Scholars
Av Various
Inbunden, 2011
3012 kr
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Throughout his life the Shams-ul-Ullema devoted himself to advancing the Zoroastrian Faith, not only as a priest and teacher, but also as a writer. This volume of papers is authored by an international group of scholars and covers the history, philosophy, literature and language of Persia and the …
Papers from the Seminar on Fasahat and Balaghat in Classical Persian Literature (RLE Iran B)
Av JULIE MEISAMI, Michael Beard
Inbunden, 2011
2879 kr
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This issue of Edebiyât discusses topics ranging from medieval grammar, prosody and rhetoric to computer-assisted techniques of analysis. It also features excerpts from Michael Cooperson’s translation of Abdelfattah Kilito’s L’Auteur et ses doubles.
Persian Sufis (RLE Iran C)
Av Cyprian Rice
Inbunden, 2011
2504 kr
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The Sufi phenomenon is not easy to sum up or define. This book is concerned primarily with the Persian mystics and looks at the history of the Sūfi movement, the mystical states, fundamentals of Persian mysticism and Sūfi practices.
Nasirean Ethics (RLE Iran C)
Inbunden, 2011
3055 kr
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The Nasirean Ethics is the best known ethical digest to be composed in medieval Persia, if not in all mediaeval Islam. It appeared initially in 633/1235 when Tūsī was already a celebrated scholar, scientist, politico-religious propagandist. The work has a special significance as being composed by …
Christians in Persia (RLE Iran C)
Assyrians, Armenians, Roman Catholics and Protestants
Inbunden, 2011
2504 kr
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When it was originally published this book broke new ground in presenting one continuous narrative of the history of Christians in Persia from the second century A.D to the 1970s. The material gathered here was previously only to be found in obscure books, manuscripts and foreign periodicals. …
Security of the Persian Gulf (RLE Iran D)
Inbunden, 2011
3012 kr
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The Persian Gulf, important because of its vast energy resources, emerged into the limelight of geopolitics at the time of the British Labour government’s policy of withdrawal from East of Suez in 1968. Before 1968 it had been recognised that the Gulf lay in the legitimate sphere of influence of …
Iran and the International Community (RLE Iran D)
Inbunden, 2011
2504 kr
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In this book experts examine the main features of Iran’s foreign policy from 1980 – 1990, assessing relations with the UN, the superpowers, Europe, the GCC and Iraq. Although the Islamic revolution made Iran a significant force in the international arena, it is argued that the ending of the Cold …
Iran (RLE Iran D)
The Illusion of Power
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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The sudden increase of oil prices in 1973 meant that the foreign revenues of Iran quadrupled in just over two months. As the first OPEC member to begin disbursing this extra revenue on a significant scale, Iran offers the first complete example of the social, economic and political problems this …
Persian Gulf and the West (RLE Iran D)
Inbunden, 2011
762 kr
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This volume provides a broadly comparative and historical re-examination of the fundamental strategic dilemmas that confront the Western world in the Persian Gulf region. This systematic study of how the West has defined and dealt with its security interests in this region reveals three central …
Tribe and State in Iran and Afghanistan (RLE Iran D)
Inbunden, 2011
3055 kr
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In 1978 and 1979 revolutions in Afghanistan and Iran marked a shift in the balance of power in South West Asia and the world. Then, as now, the world is once more aware that tribalism is no anachronism in a struggle for political and cultural self-determination. This books provides historical and …
Soviet Union and the Arabian Peninsula (RLE Iran D)
Av Aryeh Yodfat
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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In the first years of the Soviet regime there was little, if any, Soviet interest in Arabia and the Persian Gulf. Over the last fifty years relations between Russia and this part of the world have become more complex; this book traces their intricate history in a full analysis of Soviet policy …
Soviet Union and Revolutionary Iran (RLE Iran D)
Av Aryeh Yodfat
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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Relations between the USSR and Iran during the period from the overthrow of the Shah and the establishment of the Islamic Republic up to early 1983 are reviewed in this book. It begins with a brief survey of Russian-Persian relations in earlier years, with a focus on the developments that served as …
Iran Since the Revolution (RLE Iran D)
Av Sepehr Zabir
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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Since the turn of the century Iran has experienced three major political upheavals in the struggle to democratize her political systems. The last revolution inaugurated an era of unprecedented turmoil and instead of fulfilling its democratic aim, paved the way for an even more despotic theocracy. …
