For many years before he passed away, Professor Mohammad Ja’far Mahjoub (1923-1996) spent a great deal of his time preparing a critical edition of the collected Works of ‘Obayd Zakani, the celebrated 14th-century Iranian poet, social critic, and ribald...

Hafez (d. 1388 AD) is perhaps the greatest mystic poet of Iran, and a poet of great spiritual insight. After nearly six centuries, his odes (ghazale) still influence the lives of the people as they did when they were written. Many people turn to Hafiz and his...

PLEASE NOTE: Hardcover is out of print. Please order this softcover edition. In the medieval Muslim world, the dragon was the most frequently represented fabulous beast. This applied across styles and media and in both sacred and secular contexts. Yet its...

Omar Khayyam, the great eleventh-century Persian scientist, philosopher, and poet is generally known as the author of a small but magnificent corpus of quatrains (rubaiyats), made famous in the West thanks to the popularity of Edward Fitzgerald's translation....

Ahmad Kasravi (1890-1946) is one of the most prolific writers of 20th century Iran, with broad interests as a reformer and social thinker. He wrote on a variety of subjects, including history, geography, social criticism, literature and philology. In his...

The site of Godin Tepe is located in the southeastern corner of the Kangavar valley in central western Iran, at the western end of the Silk Road. Excavated by the late T. Cuyler Young Jr. under the auspices of the Royal Ontario Museum from 1965 to 1973, Godin...

In 1985 Mazda Publishers published the book A Nightingale's Lament: Selections from the Poems and Fables of Parvin E`tesami. This was the first full-scale introduction of Parvin and her poetry in English, and was followed by an edition of her Divan with a new...

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"One Woman’s War (Da)" is many things. Part autobiography, part oral history of the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88), the work is the story of Zahra Hoseyni, a female descendant of the Prophet Mohammad (thereby termed a seyyedeh), whose Kurdish family found refuge in...