Women's Rituals and Ceremonies in Shiite Iran and Muslim Communities

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies | nr. 1
• This volume's contributors present and discuss different aspects of their experience with regard to Muslim women's rituals and devotional practices in... Lees meer

Gender and Dance in Modern Iran

Ida Meftahi

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies
• Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage investigates the ways dancing bodies have been providing evidence for competing representations ... Lees meer

Islamic Tolerance

Alyssa Gabbay

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies
• Although pluralism and religious tolerance are most often associated today with Western Enlightenment thinkers, the roots of these ideologies stretch ... Lees meer

The Politics of Iranian Cinema

Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad

• Hardcover | Engels | Iranian Studies
• Iran has undergone considerable social upheaval since the revolution and this has been reflected in its cinema. Drawing on first-hand interviews and d... Lees meer

Translating Rumi into the West

Amir Sedaghat

• Hardcover | Engels | Iranian Studies
• Focusing on Rumi, the best-selling Persian mystical poet of the 13th century, this book investigates the reception of his work and thought in North Am... Lees meer

Iran

Homa Katouzian

• Hardcover | Engels | Iranian Studies
• This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine. Iran, being a revolutionary society, e... Lees meer

Embodiments of Evil: Gog and Magog

Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Faustina Doufikar-Aerts, Sen McGlinn

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies
• Gog and Magog, as archetypes of evil, have dwelt in our consciousness since their threatening appearance in the Bible and Quran. Maps, literature and ... Lees meer

Irreverent Persia

Riccardo Zipoli

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies
• Poetry expressing criticism of social, political and cultural life is a vital integral part of Persian literary history. Its principal genres - invect... Lees meer

The Daeva Cult in the Gathas

Amir Ahmadi

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies
• Addressing the question of the origins of the Zoroastrian religion, this book argues that the intransigent opposition to the cult of the daēvas , the ... Lees meer

The Development of the Babi/Baha'i Communities

Youli Ioannesyan

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies
• This book provides a range of original translated documents from the late 19th and early 20th century on the development of the Baha'i/Babi communitie... Lees meer

Sadeq Hedayat

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies
• Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collec... Lees meer

The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics

Bayram Sinkaya

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies
• This book shows that the IRGC is not a recently politicized institution as often assumed, but has been highly politicized since its inception. It exam... Lees meer

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Jos Coumans, Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies
• This book fills a gap by providing a new selection and description of almost 900 editions of the world-famous Persian quatrains: The Rubáiyát of Omar ... Lees meer

The Holy Drama

Mahnia A Nematollahi Mahani

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies
• Persian passion play or ta`ziya depicts the role of the Prophets granddaughter Zeynab during the tragic death of the third Shiite Imam Hoseyn in Karba... Lees meer

Iranian National Cinema

Anne Demy-Geroe

• Hardcover | Engels | Iranian Studies
• This book examines transformations in the production and domestic and international reception of Iranian cinema between 2000 and 2013 through the inte... Lees meer

Secularization of Islam in Post-Revolutionary Iran

Mahmoud Pargoo

• Hardcover | Engels | Iranian Studies
• Examining the trajectory of the secularization of Islam in Iran, this book explains how efforts to Islamize society led, self-destructively, to its se... Lees meer

The Daeva Cult in the Gathas

Amir Ahmadi

• Hardcover | Engels | Iranian Studies
• Addressing the question of the origins of the Zoroastrian religion, this book argues that the intransigent opposition to the cult of the daēvas , the ... Lees meer

Untold Stories

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies | nr. 2
• In Iran, the history of photography and cinematography is mired with doubts and ambiguities. While academic debates have focused on the photography an... Lees meer

Sadeq Hedayat

• Hardcover | Engels | Iranian Studies
• Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collec... Lees meer

The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics

Bayram Sinkaya

• Hardcover | Engels | Iranian Studies
• The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been dubbed the 'kingmaker' in recent studies of Iranian politics, precipitating heated debates surr... Lees meer

Iran and Russian Imperialism

Moritz Deutschmann

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies
• Iran and Russian Imperialism develops a comprehensive picture of Russia's historical entanglements with one of its most important neighbours in Asia. ... Lees meer

A Fire of Lilies

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies
• This book examines the role of Persian literature in politics in the tumultuous period of Iranian history from 1950 to 2000. Lees meer

Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies
• By bringing sensory studies to the study of Persian literature and culture, 'Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory Readings of Persian Liter... Lees meer

A Story of Conquest and Adventure

• Paperback | Engels | Iranian Studies
• The Large Farāmarznāme (Farāmarznāme-ye bozorg), a poem from the Persian epic cycle dated to the late eleventh century, is hereby published for the fi... Lees meer