A Survey of Persian Handicraft by Jay Gluck, Sumi Gluck 0 Reviews In 1926, Arthur Upham Pope, in commencing a decade of photographing for the monumental A Survey of Persian Art, recorded traditional craftsmen at work on mosaic tiles and tribal carpers. During 1964 while in Isfahan with his former students Jay Gluck, Pope... $125.00
Dance in the Persianate WorldHistory, Aesthetics, Performance by Anthony Shay 0 Reviews Dance in the Persianate World is a rich collected volume featuring the most up-to-date writings that addresses multiple issues surrounding dance, its performance and its reception throughout the Persianate world and constitutes a sequel to Anthony... $45.00
Etymology of Caviar by Guive Mirfendereski 1 Reviews 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 term’s existence as hāvyār and khāviār in the Ottoman Turkish language dates back to... $35.00
FARHANG-e IRAN ZAMIN by Iraj Afshar 0 Reviews 30 volumes bound in 15 cloth editions. Published from 1332/1953 to 1384/2006. Publisher: Sokhan Press, Tehran, Iran. Total pages: Over 12,300. Includes maps, charts, plates and illustrations. Availability: 1 set. For more information, please see under... $750.00
Hedayat on Religion by Paul Sprachman, M. R. Ghanoonparvar 0 Reviews The most internationally recognized Persian fiction writer in the 20th century, Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951), was known as a secular intellectual whose controversial views on religion gained him both distractors and supporters in Iran, both during his life and... $45.00
Nigāristān: A Facsimile Edition. by Gregory Maxwell Bruce 0 Reviews Nigāristān (compiled 1334–5) is an important work of Persian wisdom literature and one of the first works written on the model of, and in response to, the Guilstān of Saʿdī. Its author, Mu‘īnī... $85.00
Persia is My HomelandCollected, Compiled and Transcribed by David M. McDowell with Introduction, Conclusion, Notes, and Selected Readings by Thomas M. Ricks, Ph.D. by Sarah Wright McDowell (1893-1981) 0 Reviews 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.... $45.00
Shengavit by Hakob Yervand Simonyan, Mitchell Rothman 0 Reviews 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 relations to the Kura-Araxes cultural tradition and societal form. The Kura-Araxes, which lasted from 3500 to... $68.00
SuperstitionsTranslated from the Persian by M. R. Ghanoonparvar by Ahmad Kasravi 0 Reviews 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 beliefs in all aspects of society, including religion. While his criticism is mainly aimed at such beliefs in the... $12.00
The Art of the Saljuqs in Iran and Anatolia by Robert Hillenbrand 0 Reviews 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 animals... $55.00