Language and Culture in Persian lies at the intersection of what we ordinarily associate with language learning, standard vocabulary, idiom, grammar, etc. and a set of shared assumptions about the world that we call “culture.” The book is about what readers...

5th printing. Over 80,000 entries.The choice for advanced users. Some Persian entries are transliterated.

5th printing, over 50,000 entries. Best choice for advanced users. Some Persian entries are transliterated.

In this survey of more than forty illustrative murals excavated over the last 54 years in Panjikent, a 5th-8th century C.E. town in the Zerafshan Valley in Tajikistan, Boris Marshak discusses the rich repertory of legends, tales and myths of the Sogdians that...

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What can be said with certainty about Obeyd-e Zakani hardly fills a paragraph. He was born around 1300 near Qazvin, a city in northeastern Iran. Apparently there were two branches of the Zakani clan: one belonging to the minority sect in Islam, Shiism, and...

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...

Against a backdrop of the history of Armenian and Jewish persecutions, culminating in the Armenian genocide and the Jewish holocaust, the metamorphoses of these two peoples’ literary responses to catastrophes are studied.

Egyptian writers of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th were confronted with a range of contradictory political and intellectual movements, which arose as a result of rapid changes in the relations between Egypt and Western Europe and between...

Written by Dehkhoda during thirty-five years of continuous work. The last chapter of Loghat Nameh’s first edition was published in 1981, fifty years after its first chapter. The entire series consisted of 222 chapters that took 26000 pages. The chapters...