When Terence O'Donnell, an American who lived in Iran for fifteen years in the 1960s and 1970s, was asked what he was doing there, he replied, "The...

When Terence O'Donnell, an American who lived in Iran for fifteen years in the 1960s and 1970s, was asked what he was doing there, he replied, "The...

For this book, Willem Floor has selected and translated into English thirteen German sources reporting on events in Iran from 1580 to 1722. One of ...

Merchants and bankers managed much of nineteenth-century Iran's economy and finances. The ulama -- clerical leaders -- who considered themselves re...

Nowruz -- the Persian New Year -- is one of the world's great festivals, a full month of activities celebrating the earth, the arrival of spring, a...

This book offers a fascinating portrait of the Caucasus at the dawn of the modern era. Written in Persian and completed in 1845, it offered the fir...

Given the importance of bread in the Iranian diet, it is surprising that its role in Iranian society has so far been ignored as a subject of study....

Aplace for the sick (bimarestan) had existed in Iran since the mid-sixth century, but such institutions never developed into real hospitals, except...

The Chinese invented papermaking, which by the 8th century had reached the Muslim world in Samarkand and Baghdad, and Spain by the 11th century. Mu...

Although most people do not speak of theatre and Iran in the same breath, dramatic expression has always been a fixture of Iranian culture. In trad...

The story of Rostam and Esfandiyar is one of the most moving tragedies in Ferdowsis epic Shahnameh. In this story, Esfandiyar, the designated heir ...

C J Wills was an English physician who travelled widely in Iran from 1866-81 while working for the Indo-European Telegraph Department. With a disce...

TV crews and foreign correspondents come and go, but former BBC correspondent Jane Howard made her home in Iran for five years, raising her two you...

Iran and the West is a critical bibliography of over 4000 books, articles, journals, and catalogues about Iran written in Western languages and pub...

Iran and the West is a critical bibliography of over 4000 books, articles, journals, and catalogues about Iran written in Western languages and pub...

In this insightful study of Iranian cultural history and national identity, the late Shahrokh Meskoob, one of Iran's leading intellectuals, reviewe...

Master chef Najmieh Batmanglij distills one of the world's oldest and most influential cuisines to capture its unique flavours in recipes adapted t...

Kermanshah was one of the most important commercial gateways to Iran and a crucial transit station on the trade route between Iraq and Iran. It was...

In the nineteenth century, Iranian reformers wanted to create an independent, modern state that could stand on its own feet. However, constrained b...

For its subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, the verse of the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami has been compared to that of Shakespeare,...

The Legend of Seyavash comes from the middle section of the Shahnameh, Iran's national epic by the poet Ferdowsi (c940-c1020) and presents a world ...

In August 1907 while Iran was in the throes of its Constitutional Revolution, Britain and Russia concluded a secret agreement to divide the country...

This is a memoir translated into English for the first time, offers a uniquely intimate look at a world veiled by privilege and power. Its author, ...

Mohammad Reza Shafi’i-Kadkani is a contemporary Iranian poet, literary critic, editor, author, and translator born in 1939. His nature poetry, whic...