Iranian Studies

Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies

EDITOR

Homa Katouzian, University of Oxford, UK

ASSISTANT EDITORS

Roham Alvandi (History), London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Dominic Brookshaw (Literature and Culture), Stanford University, USA

Hossein Shahidi (Social Science), Jordan Media Institute, Amman, Jordan

BOOK REVIEW EDITORS

Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (History), University of Manchester, UK

Cyrus Schayegh (Social Science), Princeton University, USA

Rivanne Sandler (Literature and Culture), University of Toronto, Canada

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Shahrough Akhavi, University of South Carolina, USA; Abbas Amanat, Yale University, USA;

Ahmad Ashraf, Columbia University, USA; Ali Banuazizi, Boston College, USA; Houchang

Esfandiar Chehabi, Boston University, USA; Juan Cole, University of Michigan, USA; Farhad

Daftary, Institute of Isma‘ili Studies, UK; Stephen Dale, Ohio State University, USA; Richard

Davis, Ohio State University, USA; Mansoureh Ettehadieh, Tehran University, Iran; Willem Floor,

Washington, USA; Bert Fragner, Institut für Iranistik, Austria; John Gurney, University of Oxford,

UK; William Hanaway, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Edmund Herzig, University of Oxford,

UK; Robert Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh, UK; Bernard Hourcade, CNRS, France;

Farhad Kazemi, New York University, USA; Paul Luft, University of Durham, UK; Robert

McChesney, New York University, USA; Vanessa Martin, University of London, UK; Rudi Matthee,

University of Maryland, USA; Charles Melville, University of Cambridge, UK; Nasrin Rahimieh,

UC Irvine, USA; Reza Sheikholeslami, University of Oxford, UK; Maria E. Subtelny, University of

Toronto, Canada; Ehsan Yarshater, Columbia University, USA.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Fariba Adelkhah, CERI/Sciences-Po, France; Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara,

USA; Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Ali

Banuazizi, Boston College, USA; Hossein Bashirieh, Tehran University, Iran; Stephanie Cronin,

University of Oxford, UK; Elton Daniel, University of Hawai'i, USA; Touraj Daryaee, University of

California, Irvine, USA; Masashi Haneda, University of Tokyo, Japan; Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet,

University of Pennsylvania, USA; Franklin Lewis, University of Chicago, USA; Mina Marefat,

Library of Congress, USA; Sayed Askar Mousavi, Ministry of Higher Education, Afghanistan;

Negin Nabavi, Montclair State University, USA; Hamid Naficy, Northwestern University, USA;

Mohammad Nafissi, London Metropolitan University, UK; Jürgen Paul, Martin-Luther-Universität,

Halle, Germany; Rahim Shayegan, UCLA, USA; Marta Simidchieva, York University, Canada;

Pricilla Soucek, New York University, USA; Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto,

Canada; Soraya Tremayne, University of Oxford, UK.