I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationThe Safavid era is of special signific...

Cette étude présente une analyse socio-économique de l'industrie textile en Perse de 1500 à 1925....

Links with the Hinterland focuses on two related themes: the importance of what goes on in a port...

Originally, Khorshid Khanom or 'Sun Lady,' was the symbol of the Mother Goddess, but later she be...

The Chinese invented papermaking, which by the 8th century had reached the Muslim world in Samark...

This comprehensive and richly detailed study by renowned scholar Willem Floor is the culmination ...

In Russian Sources on Iran, 1719-1748, polyglot scholar Willem Floor brings together annotated tr...

Only 100 years ago the main means of transportation in Iran was by quadruped. Transportation & Te...

The renowned Russian Iranist Ilya Pavlovich Petrushevsky devoted his career to the study of agric...

Located in the Straits of Hormuz, the island of Qeshm has had a tumultuous history. Qeshm: The Hi...

Bandar Abbas, once a small fishing village, became the gateway port for Iran after Shah Abbas def...

This book offers a fascinating portrait of the Caucasus at the dawn of the modern era. Written in...

Given the importance of bread in the Iranian diet, it is surprising that its role in Iranian soci...

Dutch relations with Oman from 1651 to 1806 were substantial and the written accounts provide the...

Pleasure keyf in the form of food, drink or drugs, is the subject of this book, which looks at ho...

In 1770, Astrakhan, on the left bank of the Volga River close to where it discharges into the Cas...

Salar al-Dowleh, the madcap prince and serial rebel, was a reflection of the unsettled political ...

This study illuminates the 2,500-year social history of sexual relations in Iran. Marriage, tempo...

One off the most important sources on the history and culture of seventeenth-century Iran, Engelb...

This book provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the Persian Gulf at a time of major...

For this book, Willem Floor has selected and translated into English thirteen German sources repo...

This book offer a broad and comprehensive survey of the state of public health, medical practice ...

Although most people do not speak of theatre and Iran in the same breath, dramatic expression has...

In the early-seventeenth century the European thirst for knowledge about other countries and cult...

Games Persians Play is a study of the history, development, and change in the games played in Ira...

The monetary history of a country provides important insights into its economic development, as w...

Essays on the plague and cholera in Iran. As well as quarantine, influenza, medical infrastructur...

In the nineteenth century, Iranian reformers wanted to create an independent, modern state that c...

Not much has been written about the early beginnings of modern medicine in Iran. With this book, ...

This book contains unique and important information on offices, ethnic attitudes and administrati...

In 1770 the young German scientist and explorer Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin embarked on a journey on b...

This book discusses the political and economic history of the port of Bushehr, which by the end o...

Merchants and bankers managed much of nineteenth-century Iran's economy and finances. The ul...

Throughout history, many an ambitious diplomatic initiative has slipped into obscurity, but few h...

Kermanshah was one of the most important commercial gateways to Iran and an important transit sta...

Dutch relations with Oman from 1651 to 1806 were substantial and the written accounts provide the...

A small, sleepy port in the Persian Gulf, Bandar-e Lengeh has had a varied and chequered history ...

Muscat, the capital city of present day Oman, has had a long, and colorful history as a typical I...

The history of the Persian Gulf during the 18th century is still little known. This gap is now be...

Hamideh Khanum Javanshir grew up in a traditional Azerbaijani society where women were relegated ...

The island of Khark was an important link in Persian Gulf navigation, supplying passing ships wit...

By any measure, Nader Shah -- founder of the Afsharid Dynasty -- ranks as a towering figure in Ir...

AGRICULTURE was the mainstay of Iran's economyin the nineteenth century, yet little is known abou...

Little is known about the Arab migrants who settled on the Iranian coast between Bushehr and Leng...

The hinterland of Bushehr on the Persian Gulf-Tangestan, Borazjan, Dashti, and other districts-wa...

Until recent times, Iran regularly had to cope with local or national famines. The various govern...