As his students attest, every session in Professor Peter J. Chelkowski's classes is a memorable event. This has consistently been the case throughout his long, distinguished career. He is often described by his students as a superb teacher who has mastery...

"Madatolhayat" is one of the few pre-twentieth century Persian culinary sources to have survived. Its author, Nurollah, was the chef to the most renowned king of the Safavid Dynasty, Shah Abbas I (1588-1629). Regarded as one of the greatest monarchs in...

This book is an examination of modern Persian literature from its inception in the first decade of the 20th century to the present from a variety of perspectives, including within the context of the sociopolitical events and upheavals in the past 120 years as...

Every city has its own identity. In the same way that the identity of the people of a city influences and determines the identity of...

This volume is a collection of 10 plays written in the 1960's and 1970's in Iran, when the Persian theater is considered to have come of age. Their significance lies partly in their depiction of aspects of Iranian society and life during those decades when...

In this book, Prof. M. R. Ghanoonparvar explores the differences between the narrative strategies of Iranian filmmakers and modernist Persian fiction writers. While most published studies on Iranian cinema and Persian fiction focus either on literature or on...

For more than four decades, Professor Gernot Ludwig Windfuhr has been a pillar of Iranian Studies in the United States. His extensive publications in several fields and the number of scholars he has trained alone attest to his highly-regarded status and...

The cuisine of every nation provides a means of celebrating its culture, and this volume, the most comprehensive collection of recipes of Persian culinary arts, represents a celebration of several thousand years of Persian heritage and civilization. Persian...

This volume and the three accompanying cassettes are designed for learning the Persian language with the help of a native speaker or a teacher, without resorting to cumbersome grammatical rules. While the basic grammatical patterns of the Persian language are...

Reading Chubak is an examination of the life and works of Sadeq Chubak, one of the most prominent Iranian novelists and short story writers of the 20th century. A landmark in the development of modern Persian short stories and novels, Chubak’s work has...