Samuel M. Jordan (1871 – 1952) was a Presbyterian missionary who lived in Iran with his wife, née Mary Wood Park, for 42 years. As founder and president of the American College of Teheran, later renamed Alborz College of Teheran, he played a major...

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...

The discovery of the Jiroft civilization in southeastern Iran has fundamentally altered the historical narrative of early urban development in the ancient Near East. Situated along the Halil River valley, near the modern city of Jiroft in Kerman Province,...

This book explores the visual representations of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib—the fourth Caliph and the first Shiʿi Imam—in early Ilkhanid painting, where his figure reflects the contemporary Sufi and Shiʿi trends that...

The decoding of the panel at the Čifte Minare Medrese, particularly when examined alongside parallel literary, philosophical, and theological traditions, reveals a remarkably coherent iconographic program. Its richness lies in a layered symbolic...

FORTHCOMING IN 2026. IN SOFTCOVER EDITION. INCLUDES 5 CDs. In the mid-nineteenth-century, Persian court musicians such as Mirza Abdollah and his brother Aqa Hoseyn Qoli, both setâr and târ players, began to teach a body of traditional music to...