Wine is seen as the natural partner of many great cuisines, but few people associate it with Pers...

Some of the most fascinating human epochs lie in the borderlands between history and mystery. So ...

Obeyd-e Zakani, who died in 1372 is among the great poets of Iran but little known in the West. T...

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

Amir Abbas Hoveyda was a central figure in the historic struggle between modernity and tradition ...

Persian Text of the Poems in Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz, introduced and transla...

To the task of chronicling the waning years of Persia's Qajar court, Dust-Ali Khan 'Mo`ayyer al-M...

An Encounter with Dylan Thomas

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

In the interests of exploiting Iran's location and natural resources to launch a projected attack...

A remarkable woman who lived through extraordinary times, Houri Mostofi was born in Tehran, Iran,...

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

this is the first of a projected six-volume collection, covering four turbulent decades of Iran's...

The rise of Iranian cinema to world prominence over the last few decades is one of the most fasci...

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

Widely regarded in his lifetime as the greatest living authority on all things Iranian, across an...

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

Khosrow and Shirin is a love story by Nezami Ganjavi--considered the greatest medieval Persian ro...

The history of modern Iran has been momentous, precarious, and turbulent. The country's struggle ...

I gaze into the mirror of my heartAnd though it's me who looks, it's you I see.So speaks one of t...

Mohammad Reza Shafi'i-Kadkani is a contemporary Iranian poet, literary critic, editor, author, an...

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

This book is at once an exploration, a celebration, and a little-known tale of unity. It presents...

Equally literary analysis and a deep dive into the timeless ingredients of our collective humanit...

Although the broad outline of the history of Iran in the eighteenth century is known, it still is...

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...

Rouhangiz Karachi was born in Firuzabad, an ancient Iranian city located between Shiraz and the P...

Simorgh: Portraits on My Mind is one of Abbas Milani's most self-reflective and engaging books, n...

Translated into English for the first time, this volume brings together four remarkable yet long-...

First published in Swedish in 1825 and never before translated into English, Carl Peter von Heide...

From 1866 to 1881, English physician C. J. Wills traveled extensively through Iran while serving ...

In 1911, an ambitious American was invited by a budding Iranian democracy to bring financial stab...

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

This collection of 35 Persian short stories by 26 of Iran's best known contemporary writers gives...

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

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

The 'Films of Makhmalbaf examines the close and volatile relationship between a highly popular ar...

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Among the masterpieces of world literature, perhaps the least familiar to English readers is the ...

Vis & Ramin is one of the worlds great love stories. It was the first major Persian romance, writ...

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

Iran and the West is a critical bibliography of over 4000 books, articles, journals, and catalogu...

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

This new paperback edition, now also available as an eBook, coincides with the release of the aud...

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

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

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