Gharbzadegi [Weststruckness] is a tour de force on social conditions in Iran. It was written in 1962 when the Pahlavi regime seemed to have control over Iran's destiny. For the author, Al-e Ahmad (1923-1969), the result was total national submission to...

This book describes the competition and struggle between nationalism (the goat), ethnonationalism, capitalism (the butcher), and the processes of state formation using Iraqi Kurdistan as a case study. In order to add coherence and lucidity to theoretical...

The broad purpose of this book is twofold. One, to provide a systematic study of the forms, techniques, decorative vocabulary, and epigraphy of a body of metalwork that will be shown to have been produced in Iran under the reign of the Timurid dynasty and...

The Persian language has up to the present been described principally in its classical form. Persian as it occurs today in an abundant literature is not identical with the classical language. Colloquial language diverges from it appreciably more; it merits...

When World War I ended in 1918, the world had changed. The face of Europe was reshaped, its boundaries altered, and Communism had taken over Russia. Many Americans were there to witness this, among them Merian C. Cooper, an Air Force pilot, Ernest B....

These memoirs of a founder of Middle Eastern studies at U.S. institutions reveal more than the events of a life spent in intimate contact with many peoples of Eurasia. Although mainly concerned with “Greater Iran” (Afghanistan, Iran/Persia and...

The work covers several decades, from the second half of the twelfth to the first quarter of the thirteenth century, comprising white and under glaze, as well as, luster painted vessels, and also some mihrab titles. The book includes a general discussion of...