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

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 this panoramic guide by one of the world's most knowledgeable movie enthusiasts, Cyrus Ghani r...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Iranian women have been writing Persian poetry for over a thousand years, and in the tumult of ou...