Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 264 p. In a radical reappraisal of Iran’s modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis, and, in 1979, revolution and the birth of the Islamic Republic. In the intervening years, Iran has experienced a bitter war with...
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1982. — 561 p. Abrahamyan Ervand. Iran between two revolutions (In English) Historical Background. The Nineteenth Century. The Constitutional Revolution. Reza Shah. Politics of Social Conflict. The Evolving Political System: From Military to Embattled Monarchy. The Evolving Political System: From Embattled to Military Monarchy....
London: Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 317 p. Adib-Moghaddam A. (ed.) Ayatollah Khomeini: An Introductory Analysis (In English) Introduction Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: A Clerical Revolutionary? Khomeini and the White Revolution. The Rise of Khomeinism: Problematizing the Politics of Resistance in Pre-Revolutionary Iran. Wilayat al-Faqih and the Meaning of Islamic...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — XIV+307 p. — (Security, Conflict and Cooperationin the Contemporary World). This book investigates how British diplomats in Tehran and London reacted to the overthrow of the Shah and the creation of an Islamic Republic in Iran, which had previously been a major political and commercial partner for London in the Middle East. Making substantial use of...
Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1997. - 536 p. When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had sat on the Peacock throne for nearly half a century. A colorful, complex figure, he is frequently portrayed as indolent and self-indulgent. Yet he was in many ways an effective ruler who displayed exceptional resilience in the face of dilemmas...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 253 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Iran has rarely been out of the headlines. Yet media interest and extensive coverage has tended to hinder rather than help our understanding of Iran as an idea, an identity, and a people, leading to a superficial understanding of what is a complex and nuanced political culture and civilization. This Very...
University of Minnesota Press, 1980. — 233 p. Modern Russo-Iranian relations date from the late eighteenth century, when after several centuries of commercial and diplomatic contact, the two nations entered a period of extended warfare for possession of the Caucasian borderlands, disputed territory t
New York: Basic Books, 2008. — 352 p. Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran’s religious culture encompasses the most censorious and dogmatic Shi’a Muslim clerics in the world, and yet its poetry insistently dwells on the joys of life-wine, beauty, sex. Iranian women are...
Hurst, 2008. "Empire of the Mind" offers the reader a compelling overview of Iranian history from the earliest times up to the present day. It highlights the uniqueness of Iranian identity, as one of the oldest continuing civilisations in the world. In doing so, as well as covering military and dynastic matters, it emphasises the role of cultural and intellectual movements in...
London, U.K.; New York, NY: I.B. Tauris, 2006. — 368 p., illus., maps. Nader Shah, ruler of Persia from 1736 to 1747, embodied ruthless ambition, energy, military brilliance, cynicism and cruelty. His reign was filled with bloodshed, betrayal and horror. Yet Nader Shah is central to Iran's early modern history. From a shepherd boy he rose to liberate his country from foreign...
Springer, 2022. This book is a theoretical inquiry into the relationship of the body politic with the religious movements in the time between the Constitutional Revolution and the Islamic Revolution in Iran; it illustrates speculative and historical analyses of the relationship of state, religion, and socio-political status in the late Qajar dynasty (1905-1925) and the whole...
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 320 p. Following the devastating Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the domination of the Abbasids declined leading to successor polities, chiefly among them the Ilkhanate in Greater Iran, Iraq and the Caucasus. Iranian cultural identities were reinstated within the lands that make up today's Iran, including the area of greater Khorasan. The Persian...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1961. The book covers key topics in Iranian modernization during the reign of Reza-shah Pahlavi (1921-1941). One. Historical Antecedents. Two. The Rise of Reza Shah. Three. In the Direction of the West. Four. The Army, the Administration, and the Public Health. Five. The New Judiciary System. Six. Educational Reforms. Seven. Economic...
London; New York: Routledge, 2007. — 288 p. — (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History). — ISBN: 978-0-415-77153-5. The primary goal of this work is to introduce Russian travelogues about Iran written in the nineteenth and early twentieth centures as new and untapped source of information about the history of Iran during this period. The research based on more than 200...
Cambridge University Press. — 2008. — 848 p. ISBN: 978-0-521-52891-7. Chronology. A political who is who of modern Iran. " Royal despots " : state and society of Qajars. Reform, revolution, and the Great War. The iron fist of Reza Shah. The nationalist interrregnum. Muchammad Reza Shach s White Revolution. The Islamic Respublic.
State University of New York Press, 2015. — 336 p. First comprehensive account of how the Internet has impacted life in Iran. Social Media in Iran is the first book to tell the complex story of how and why the Iranian people — including women, homosexuals, dissidents, artists, and even state actors — use social media technology, and in doing so create a contentious environment...
London — New York: Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. — 256 p. — (History and Society in the Islamic World). — ISBN: 978-0-203-93830-0. Contemporary events in the Islamic world dominate the headlines and emphasize the crises of the Middle East and North Africa, yet the Islamic world is far larger and more varied than we realize. Current affairs there, too, mask the...
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1850 — 329 p. In the various provinces of the vast empire of Persia, there were a great number of important cities and towns; but concerning many of them, no detailed information has been handed down to us by ancient writers. All, therefore, that can be done in these pages, is to notice those of which any account, and any remains, have...
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 1846034914 ISBN13: 9781846034916. Iran’s complex, violent military history encompasses two world wars, foreign intervention, anti-government revolts, border disputes, a revolution, a war against Iraq that lasted over eight years, and its desperate quest to become a nuclear power. Following his award-winning book, Shadows in the...
L, NY: Routledge, 2006. - VIII+264 p. This first full-length study of the history of Iranian anthropology charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in the twentieth century. The text examines how and why anthropology and culture became part of wider socio-political discourses in Iran, and how they were appropriated, and rejected, by the pre- and...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. — 176 p. Home of one of the world's most ancient and enduring civilizations, Iran has been at the nexus of world history for the past three thousand years. Situated at the crossroads between East and West, it has been marked by its encounters with other cultures and has influenced them with its own. From paradise gardens and Persian...
I.B.Tauris, 2014. — 200 p. From their ancestral heartland by the shores of the Aral Sea, the medieval Oghuz Turks marched westwards in search of dominion. Their conquests led to control of a Muslim empire that united the territories of the eastern Islamic world, melded Turkic and Persian influences and transported Persian culture to Anatolia. In the eleventh and twelfth...
Basingtoke: Palgrave Pivot, 2013 — 109 p. — ISBN10: 1137330163; ISBN13: 978-1137330161. Democratic government is something that has eluded Iran despite a series of non-violent revolutions aimed at establishing a system of governance that would promote both public freedom and political accountability. This explores the obstacles to the growth of democracy in Iran and posits a...
L, NY: I.B. Tauris, 2007. - VIII+305 p. A new and original interpretation of the social history of religion in Iran from the 1870s to the 1970s. Drawing together religion and other social and cultural issues, it places the revolutionary upheavals of 1977-82 in the context of historical developments over the preceding century. De Groot argues that Iran's revolution was not the...
Princeton University Press, 1999. — 304 p. In Frontier Fictions, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. The "frontier fictions," or the ways in which the Iranians viewed their...
Monograph. — Ed. V.A.Livshits and R.Schmidt. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Caucasian Center for Iranian Studies, 1998. - 324 p. ISBN 5-8079-0181-X. Einleitung. Die Statthalter und Provinzherrscher . Bidaxš. Pāygōspān. Marzbān. Kanārang. Die höchsten Ränge der zentralen Zivilverwaltung . Premierminister: hazārbed (hazāruft), wuzurg framādār. Berater. Die höchsten Hofbeamte ....
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 482 p. Iran is a country with a deep and complex history. Over several thousand years, Iran has been the source of numerous creative contributions to the spiritual and literary world, and the site of many remarkable manifestations of material culture. The special place that Iran has come to hold in contemporary historical events, most recently as a...
Washington: University of Washington Press, 2008. When Naser al-Din Shah, who ruled Iran from 1848 to 1896, claimed the title Shadow of God on Earth, his authority rested on premodern conceptions of sacred kingship. By 1941, when Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi came to power, his claim to authority as the Shah of Iran was infused with the language of modern nationalism. In short,...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 373 p. — ISBN10: 1108449972, 13 978-1108449977. Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, many Western observers of Iran have seen the country caught between Eastern history and 'Western' modernity, between religion and secularity. As a result, analysis of political philosophy preceding the Revolution has become subsumed by this narrative. Here,...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. — 363 p. - ISBN: 0-520-24263-7 Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi provides...
Springer, 2016. — 336 p. This book examines Modern Iran through an interdisciplinary analysis of its cultural norms, history and institutional environment. The goal is to underline strengths and weaknesses of Iranian society as a whole, and to illustrate less prescriptive explanations for the way Iran is seen through a lens of persistent collective conduct rather than erratic...
Springer, 2019. — 112 p. This book highlights fundamental, but often neglected, issues important for a better understanding of present-day Iran. It underlines the idea that the most effective means for a nation to meet challenges and practices of the modern era lies with the fundamental values and norms that resonate with its inhabitants. This book is meant to be a companion to...
Springer, 2019. — 112 p. This book highlights fundamental, but often neglected, issues important for a better understanding of present-day Iran. It underlines the idea that the most effective means for a nation to meet challenges and practices of the modern era lies with the fundamental values and norms that resonate with its inhabitants. This book is meant to be a companion to...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. — 268 p. William R. Polk provides an informative, readable history of a country which is moving quickly toward becoming the dominant power and culture of the Middle East. A former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, Polk describes a country and a history misunderstood by many in the West. While Iranians chafe under the yolk of...
Austine: The University of Texas Press, 2007. - 293 p. While many previous books have probed the causes of Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979, few have focused on the power of religion in shaping a national identity over the decades leading up to it. Islamism and Modernism captures the metamorphosis of the Islamic movement in Iran, from encounters with Great Britain and the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 239 p. Tehran's complicated relationship with its ethnic sub-groups has been a pressing security concern since the formation of modern Iran in 1925. This concern is intimately linked with issues related to citizenship, democracy, and democratic political processes, which remain fundamental to Iran's political structure and the Iranian political...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 253 p. Eliz Sanasarian's book explores the political and ideological relationship between non-Muslim religious minorities in Iran and the state during the formative years of the Islamic Republic to the present day. Her analysis is based on a detailed examination of the history and experiences of the Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — X+283 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-79023-7. This book explores the psychosocial significance of loss and exclusion in the lives of many Iranian immigrants living in London since the Iranian revolution of 1979. It addresses the experiences of middle-class Iranians who left Iran in both ‘voluntary’ contexts (immigration) and in ‘enforced’ contexts (exile). The...
The Bitish Museum Press, 2009 - 283 p. Shah 'Abbas I was one of Iran's most influential leaders. Combining his ruthless ambition with a desire for stability, he left a far-reaching mark on the society and artistic heritage of Iran, renovating the country's spectacular shrines and transforming its trading relations with the rest of the world. This richly illustrated book brings...
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2019. — 208 p. Iran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, outside of Israel. At its peak in the twentieth century, the population numbered around 100,000; today about 25,000 Jews live in Iran. Between Iran and Zion offers the first history of this vibrant community over the course of the last century, from...
Georgetown University Press, 2009 - 395 p. "Immortal" is the only single-volume English-language survey of Iran's military history. CIA analyst Steven R. Ward shows that Iran's soldiers, from the famed Immortals of ancient Persia to today's Revolutionary Guard, have demonstrated through the centuries that they should not be underestimated. This history also provides background...
London: 1715. — 416 p. Captain John Stevens (died 1726) was a prolific translator and embellisher of Spanish and Portuguese works of history and literature who published this book in 1715. In his preface, Stevens explained: “Persia is at this time, and has been for several Ages, one of the Great Eastern Monarchies, and yet the Accounts we have hitherto had of it in English have...
Edited by Touraj Daryaee. — Oxford University Press, 2011. — 432 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-973215-9. Iranian history has long been a source of fascination for European and American observers. The country's ancient past preoccupied nineteenth-century historians and archaeologists as they attempted to construct a unified understanding of the ancient world. Iran's medieval history has...
London, U.K.: Oneworld Publications, 2019. — 352 p. : illustrations. For almost two centuries, followers of the Baha’i faith, Iran’s largest religious minority, have been persecuted by the state. They have been made scapegoats for the nation’s ills, branded enemies of Islam and denounced as foreign agents. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 Baha’is have been barred from...
Chelsea House, 2008. - 116 p. Home to one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations, Iran's historical and urban settlements date back to 4000 BCE. Once known for its modern ways influenced by Western culture, the Iran of today is officially an Islamic republic. It occupies a strategic position in international energy security and world economy due to its large reserves of...
تهران: نشر همیشه، 1395 (Tehran, 2016). داریوش سوم، همواره نسبت به هماورد مقدونی خود، کمتر مورد توجه بوده است. کتاب حاضر، تحلیلی است بر وقایعی که به بر تخت نشستن او منتهی میگردد. همچنین گزارشی از مشکلات او پیش از آغاز یورش اسکندر مقدونی و سرانجام نبردهای بزرگ میان دو سپاه تا فروپاشی امپراتوری هخامنشی را شامل میشود. In comparison to his Macedonian antagonist, Darius III has...
تهران: انتشارات امیر کبیر. ۱۳۵۷ (چاپ سوم) - ۲۳۸ ص Rahimi, Mostafà (сост.) Iranian Constitution and the Principles of Democracy. Tehran: Amir Kabir Publisher. 1357/1978-79 (3rd Edition). 238 pp. رمان مشروطیت - مورخ 14 جمادی الثانیه 1324 قمری - السلطان مظفرالدین شاه قاجار - جناب اشرف صدراعظم از آنجا که حضرت باریتعالی جل شانه سررشته ترقی و سعادت ممالک محرومه ایران را بکف کفایت ما...
(کاوه بیات (مؤلف نامههای ارومیه: اسناد و مکاتبات محمدصادق میرزا معزالدوله از حکومت ارومیه ، شوال 1333 تا ربیع الاول 1334 ه ق - ۱۳۸۰ - تهران: فرزان روز - ص۲۶۲ Kave Bayat. Letters of Orumiye. — Tehran: Farzan-e ruz, 1380/2001-2002. — 262 p. Letters and documents from Mohammad Sadeq Mirza, nephew of 'Abbas Mirza Vali-ye 'ahd and governor of Orumiye from 1333 to 1334 hijri qamari....
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