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 ...

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

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

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...

Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd...

Terence O'Donnell lived in Iran from 1957-71, operating a farm from 196370 before returning to Am...

CONTAINING more than 2000 words and expressions, Persian: Here and Now is a course book that prov...

'Closed Circuit History is a record of Iran's eternal landscape of the past and a retrospective o...

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

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

The power of poetry to map the human heart has been a hallmark of Persian culture for at least a ...

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

These stories not only portray, with incomparable perception, humour, and compassion, women from ...

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

In Joon, master chef Najmieh Batmanglij distills one of the world's oldest and most influential c...

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