The increasing popularity of the study of Persian (also known as Farsi, Tajiki or Dari) in the English speaking world, has created a need for a bi-...

Persian language translation of Aeschylus' classic play about the Persian army's defeat.

Text in English & Arabic. Abu Said Abil-Kheyr is revered as one of the fathers of Sufism and the rubaiyat. His philosophy of self annihilation ...

Shamseddin Hafez, although born some six hundred years ago in southern Iran, is a contemporary and universal poet. Wherever Persian is known, he is...

This is a selective mémoire, as the author, well known Iranian musicologist and composer Hormoz Farhat, calls it. His rich life is divided into fou...

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Since leaving his homeland after the Iranian revolution in 1979, Kuros Amouzgar witnessed his children and many other second generation Iranians wh...

RUMI at the age of thirty-seven meets SHAMS TABRIZI (the sun of Tabriz) "a weird figure wrapped in coarse black felt, who flits across the stage fo...

This is a comprehensive guide to reading and writing the script of contemporary Persian. Drawing on years of classroom experience, Mitra Ara introd...

Mulla Nasreddin, as he is known the Persian speaking world, is a humorous witty character that goes by different names in different cultures. Irani...

Fiction. Middle-Eastern Studies. Translated from the Farsi by Esmail Nooriala. "On Thursday August the ninth, 1979, at 3:30 in the afternoon, Amin'...

The Diaries of Asadollah Alam may be the most important document about the inner workings of the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi period. These candid, almost...

In the 19th century, countless individuals believed a new Revelation was imminent. In Persia, the Báb fulfilled the prediction by several clerics o...

Text in Persian. The Last Words, is the story of a woman who endured a passionate longing for a love that was of an anomalous essence. It was on th...

Reza Saberi translates over 1,500 quatrains from more than one hundred Iranian poets since the tenth century. In addition to the quatrains of bette...

A Bibliography of the treasures of the Golestan Imperial Library collection by it's last head librarian.

This book presents two important Persian-language works on music theory from the post-scholastic era (16th 18th centuries). They are Resalah-e Karr...

A work of fiction, most of Vale of Tears takes place in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, where the book's protagonist, Coralie, is trying to ...

Where did Walt Whitman get his religious ideas? This book follows in detail the similarities of the religious beliefs of the American writer/humani...

This is a unique collection of proverbs and sayings from Persian, Jewish and Western culture. Homayoon Aram, being an Iranian of Jewish faith livin...