By any measure, Nader Shah -- founder of the Afsharid Dynasty -- ranks as a towering figure in Iranian history. Rising from the humblest of origins...

Rostam is Iran's greatest mythological hero, a Persian Hercules, magnificent in strength and courage. As recounted in the tenth-century Book of Kin...

Salar al-Dowleh, the madcap prince and serial rebel, was a reflection of the unsettled political times during the early 1900s when Iranian society ...

Savushun chronicles the life of a Persian family during the Allied occupation of Iran during World War II. It is set in Shiraz, a town which evokes...

Terence O'Donnell lived in Iran from 1957-71, operating a farm from 1963-70 before returning to America. "Seven Shades of Memory" is his first coll...

This book is at once an exploration, a celebration, and a little-known tale of unity. It presents 150 delicious vegetarian dishes that together tra...

This study illuminates the 2,500 year social history of sexual relations in Iran. Marriage, temporary marriage, prostitution, and homosexuality are...

This collection of thirty-five Persian shortstories by twenty-six of Iran?s best known contemporary writers gives voice to the concerns, strivings,...

Volume 2 opens and closes with tales of tragic conflict between a king and his son: Prince Seyavash and Prince Esfandiyar are both driven from the ...

With our third and final volume of stories from the Shahnameh we move from mythology and legend to romanticized history. Here the mighty events tha...

In 1911, an ambitious American was invited by a budding Iranian democracy to bring financial stability to the country. He went with the blessing of...

During the second half of the nineteenth century, in an effort to combat diseases such as the plague and cholera that spread with impunity across i...

Here are six stories by one of Iran's greatest contemporary writers, rare and intimate glimpses into the lives of ordinary Iranian men and women; w...

To the task of chronicling the waning years of Persia’s Qajar court, Dust-Ali Khan Mo`ayyer al-Mamalek (1876–1966) brought matchless gifts. On his ...

Not much has been written about the early beginnings of modern medicine in Iran. With this book, renowned scholar Willem Floor, who has written mor...

This book has been published in celebration of the poet and scholar Dick Davis, dubbed our pre-eminent translator from Persian by The Washington Po...

So speaks one of the many distinctive voices in this new anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been transla...

This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart -– the poems in Persian and English on facing pages -– is a unique and captivating collection ...

The hinterland of Bushehr on the Persian Gulf -- Tangestan, Borazjan, Dashti, and other districts -- was populated by a disparate and poor people, ...

This book contains unique and important information on offices, ethnic attitudes and administrative developments in Iran's Safavid government (1495...

This is a stimulating and informative account of an Ottoman administrator's missions to the region in the mid-seventeenth century. Evliya Chelebi's...

In 1770 the young German scientist and explorer Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin embarked on a journey on behalf of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in th...

Born in 1925, Shahroukh Firouz comes from a long line of great Iranian men including his father Norsat Doleh Firouz and grandfather Abdol Hossein M...

VIS & RAMIN is one of the world's great love stories. it was the first major Persian romance, written between 1050 and 1055 in rhyming couplets...