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...

If the Šifāʾ (The Cure, or The Healing) in its entirety deserves to be considered Ibn Sīnā’s masterpiece in philosophy, the same can be said in particular of its metaphysical section (Ilāhiyyāt, Divine Things): this final and culminant part of the entire work...

Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh (1812-78) was the father of modern Azerbaijani and Persian drama, a man of letters, propagator of a new alphabet, and one of the most outspoken free-thinkers of the Islamic world in the nineteenth century. A reformer and liberal,...

Erotic Persian 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 used imagery borrowed from nature and...

This volume contains the translation of the literary works of Shahrzad, an Iranian dancer, actor, ‎and writer, originally published in three different books before the 1979 Iranian Revolution. In ‎the 1960s and 70s, Shahrzad was known as a popular artist: she...

This study highlights the patterns of complex parameters in the Gāthās, defining their pervasive numerology. Fundamentally, conceptual pairings and distributional patterns of terms suggest that the composer of the Gāthās presented, and through them taught,...

This anthology introduces the short fiction of young Iranian women and men writers of the fifth generation, the period encompassing the reform movement of the late 1990s to the present, to the English-speaking world. The collection consists of ten short...

Ghalib Halasa wrote this controversial novel after living his adult life in exile due to his political beliefs. Sultana (1987) is an experimental coming-of-age tale set in 1950s Cold War Jordan. The narrative follows Jeries as he remembers his adolescence...

The Earth has Three Colors is an illustrated book about Moroccan ceramics, both the past, the present and the future. The title refers to the fact that red, grey and white clay have all been used at different times in Morocco. The book has ten chapters,...

The Eternal Wanderer interweaves history and myth as it follows two main characters that strive to understand the purpose with which God has endowed them. The first is the eponymous wanderer, a man cursed by God for refusing one of His blessed the grace of...