Kurdish Women Through History, Culture, and Resistance is a study of the lives and struggles of Kurdish women in the past while also envisioning the...

The most internationally recognized Persian fiction writer in the 20th century, Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951), was known as a secular intellectual whose...

First published in hard copy edition between 1988-2008, this 8-volume paperback edition includes a new introduction in Persian, errata for each...

This study shows that there was a shift in political and military power in the Safavid state, for which the basis was laid in the mid-16th century....

In 1926, Arthur Upham Pope, in commencing a decade of photographing for the monumental A Survey of Persian Art, recorded traditional craftsmen at...

NOTE: This collection includes two previously unpublished volumes, Vol. XVII and Vol. XVIII., a total of 18 volumes. The final volume of A Survey...

The word-origin of the term caviar has been a subject of Western scholarly curiosity as late as the mid-18th century. The lexical evidence of the...

Sa‘īd b. Dādhurmuz is an eleventh century Iranian intellectual whose writings exhibit a combination of the three main theoretical...

The Bewildered Cameleer is a novel by Iran’s first and best-known Iranian female novelist and short-story writer, Simin Daneshvar (1921-2012)....

Gharbzadegi [Weststruckness] is a tour de force on social conditions in Iran. It was written in 1962 when the Pahlavi regime seemed to have...

This book is a general survey of language and images that arouse sexual desire. The book begins by examining the works of the great Persian poets and...

Zoroastrianism is both an ancient and still practiced religion. At its height it was the state religion of the Sasanian empire (224 to 651 AD) that...

Volume I: 312 pp., 22 eight-color plates, one plate ready to be framed, 284 black & white llustrations. Volume II: 560 pp., 1 eight-color plate,...

Nigāristān (compiled 1334–5) is an important work of Persian wisdom literature and one of the first works written on the model...

Arthur Upham Pope and his wife Phyllis Ackerman were pioneers in the study of the arts of Asia, with a paramount dedication to Persian art, history,...

NEW AND EXPANDED INTRODUCTION. The book offers much rich new material in the field of Iranian iconography, including bold metaphysical speculations...

Superstitions by Ahmad Kasravi reveals the passion of a man of reason who led an overall campaign against what he viewed as decadent ideas and...

The importance of the site of Shengavit, which is located in the neighborhood of the same name within the Armenian capital city of Yerevan, is its...

Dance in the Persianate World is a rich collected volume featuring the most up-to-date writings that addresses multiple issues surrounding dance, its...

The Cappella Palatina’s place within the history of art is unique for it represents the visual amalgamation of three distinct cultures. The...

The diaries, letters and essays are extraordinary and factual eyewitness accounts of Tabriz and Tehran’s social, military and political life in...

Second Printing, 2024. This volume forms number eleven in the Intellectual Traditions Series, a series aimed at providing scholars and students of...

Among the .proud remains and wonderful memorials of the ancient land of Iran/Persia are the palaces which the Achaemenian Kings built at Pasargadae...