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...

The topic of this book revolves around the four words that appear in its title, namely disease, dying, death, and trauma. Each chapter explores not only the above mentioned themes, but also questions of identity, loss of homeland, unrequited love and broken...

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...

While in classical Persian literature one finds poems in praise of cities, in modern Persian literature, and specifically modern Persian fiction, we find merely a few cities in Iran that are indirectly and implicitly portrayed in novels and short stories, and...

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...

Based on a meticulous study of the texts—mostly cuneiform, legal and economic documents— mentioning Iranians in Achaemenid Babylonia (539-330 B.C.), Dr. Dandamayev has reconstructed the social, economic, and administrative life of the Persians,...

James Lyman Merrick was born into a farming family in western Massachusetts in 1803. In his youth, while completing a school project, he developed an enduring love for Persia that became a guiding light for his entire life. As a committed Christian of a...

Jujube Blossoms is a historical novel about a tumultuous period in Persian history during the Persian Constitutional Revolution that began in 1905 and ended in 1911. Even though the ruling monarch, Mozaffareddin Shah Qajar, signed the declaration for a...

Kurdish Women Through History, Culture, and Resistance is a study of the lives and struggles of Kurdish women in the past while also envisioning the social, cultural, and sexual transformation of gender relations for a future that is upon us. An...

This book is a translation of Sadeq Hedayat’s Neyrangestan, a collection of Persian beliefs and customs, including Persian tales, legends, myths, and proverbs, among other issues. A major interest of Hedayat was to collect and study Iranian folklore...