This book adopts a thematic and comparative approach to shed light on the antagonism of these two nations. Its first part deals with the Armenian and Azerbaijani self-representation of their nations’ identity and historical territory. This is the core of...

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 prose authors who avoid direct mention of bodily functions and use imagery borrowed from nature and food when...

Searing in honesty, soaring in humanity, this book is an unflinching indictment of the paranoid regime in Iran; an inspiring tale of resilience and resistance by defenders of democracy and human dignity, and a love song shared by two of Iran’s most acclaimed...

This book offers a comparative study between a number of Talmudic and Middle Persian narratives. The present work seeks first and foremost to examine Talmudic narratives in their Iranian context, and secondly to examine the Talmudic background of Iranian...

The diaries, letters and essays are extraordinary and factual eyewitness accounts of Tabriz and Tehran’s social, military and political life in the tumultuous days and years of Iran’s Constitutional Revolution and Tabriz’s ten-month siege. She recounts the...

NEW AND EXPANDED INTRODUCTION. The book offers much rich new material in the field of Iranian iconography, including bold metaphysical speculations on the theme of light metal work and pottery, in-depth studies of the meanings associated with various...

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. The shift itself was formalized after 1590 through the reforms initiated by `Abbas I. The changes took three...