Wade Cup in the Cleveland Museum of Art by D.S. Rice 0 Reviews At the time of its first printing in 1955, the book offered a detailed and comprehensive study of the Cup's style and compared its features with similarly rare and unique medieval metal objects. Rice also provided an iconographical explanation for some of the... $10.00
Wall Paintings and Other Figurative Mural Art in Qajar Iran by Willem Floor 0 Reviews Although in the last few years the study of painting in 19th century Iran has made considerable progress it would seem that art historians find it difficult to go beyond oil paintings, lacquer, and enamel. In this study it is shown that wall paintings were... $25.00
Welcoming Fighani by Paul E. Losensky 0 Reviews Between 1475 and 1675, Persian poetry achieved an extraordinary range and popularity. In cities such as Tabriz, Herat, Isfahan, and Delhi, a lively culture flourished at all levels of urban society, from the royal court to the marketplace. To chart the... $45.00
When You Hear Hoofbeats, Think of a Zebra by Shems Friedlander 0 Reviews This volume is for those who seek to awaken to a life of clarity and meaning from the sleep of modern times. An American distills the ancient wisdom of the Persian Sufis, bringing spiritual insight to contemporary Western lives. Shems Friedlander has studied... $9.95
When Zarathustra Spoke by Mary Settegast 0 Reviews Ancient Greek and Roman historians ventured very few absolute dates in recounting events of great age. And yet several of them —Xanthus, Pliny, Eudoxus, Plutarch—individually and specifically gave dates ranging from 6500 to 6200 BC for the time of Zarathustra... $35.00
Wine of NishapurA Photographer's Promenade in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam 0 Reviews It sometimes requires a very subtle flair to discover the talent of some artists. Shahrokh Golestan is one of them. And we owe him a fresh perception of the poetic works of the great Persian scholar, poet, mathematician and astronomer, Omar Khayyam. A... $35.00
Winter SleepTranslated from the Persian by Francine T. Mahak. by Goli Taraqqi 0 Reviews Published in Persian in 1973 while the former Shah of Iran was still in power, the book illustrates the disorientation and "anomie" resulting from Iran's rapid and disruptive modernization process, and delves into the individual psyche of the average urban... $5.00
Women in the Shahnameh.Edited by Nahid Pirnazar. Translated from the German by Brigitte Neuenschwander. by Djalal Khaleghi Motlagh 0 Reviews The German text of "Die Frauen im Schahname," translated as "Women in the Shahnameh," was written by Professor Djalal Khaleghi Motlagh as his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Köln in 1971. The original text was published in... $20.00
Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds by Shahrzad Mojab 0 Reviews This book is the first scholarly work on feminism and nationalism in the context of one of the most persistent nationalist movements of the twentieth century-Kurdish nationalism. While a considerable volume of the literature on the Kurds deals with their... $35.00