This book is a Rumi reader for the general public. It contains a brief chapter on the history and doctrine of Sufism and mysticism, and a second chapter on the life and times of Rumi and his close associates. The rest of the book is divided into sections,...

Esayi Hasan Jalaleants‘ was the Kat‘oghikos, that is, the Supreme Patriarch of the Holy See of Aghuank‘ (Karabagh-Artsakh and Ganje-Utik‘) located in the Monastery of Gandzasar. His tenure, from 1702 to 1728, coincided with the temporary decline of the Mother...

This collection of stories from the Iran-Iraq War is the second work by Habib Ahmadzadeh to appear in English translation. The first was the novel "Chess with the Doomsday Machine" (Mazda, 2008). The nine stories in the collection, which was compiled...

SOLD! First published in London, England in 1866. Reprinted in Iran in 1976 as part of the Pahlavi Commemorative Reprint Series. Condition: Good. For more information, please see under "Select Images."

English translation by Ka’ren Ketendjian Edited with an Introduction, annotations and Notes by Robert H. Hewsen ****** The subject of this book is the history of Karabagh in the period of the Armeno-Persian and Russo-Persian wars (1722-1827), a region,...

"Al-Mulakhkhas fi al-lughat," by Abu al-Fath Hamd ibn Ahmad ibn Hussayn Badi known as Kafi, a learned 12th or 13th Century, Iranian lexicographer and language scholar, is one of the oldest extant Arabic-Persian dictionaries. The dictionary is...

The Islamic Republic of Iran emerged in 1979, replacing the 54-year-old Pahlavi monarchy in what remains the only explicitly anti-Enlightenment revolution in modern history. Over the past forty-five years, the Islamic Republic has defied expectations by...

Parvin E'tesami may be called the greatest Iranian poetess in classical style. She witnessed Iran's social, economic, and educational changes which followed the termination of the Qajar dynasty and the beginning of the reign of Reza Shah, the first Pahlavi....

Hassan Sadr, the author of previously unpublished notes on Dr. Mossadegh, is historically important for a number of reasons. He was Dr. Mossadegh’s personal lawyer at various times; represented the country at the International Court of the Hague during...

Foroogh Farrokhzaad (1935-67) is the leading feminist of Iran of this century and the greatest Persian poetess of modern style. A Rebirth [Tavallodi Digar] is a collection of a woman’s new identity as “woman as lover” rather that “woman as domestic” in Iran....