Books in Persian and Arabic

Titles in European Languages

Akhundzadeh, Mirza Fath-Ali. Collected Dramatic Works of Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh: And the Story of Yusuf Shah, ed. Hasan Javadi. Bibliotheca Iranica: Performing Arts, 13. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 2019.

Alavi, Seyed Ali. Iran and Palestine: Past, Present, Future. Iranian Studies. New York, NY: Routledge, 2019.

Alikarami, Leila, ed. Women and Equality in Iran: Law, Society and Activism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Alimagham, Pouya. Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Anzali, Ata, and S.M. Hadi Gerami, eds. Opposition to Philosophy in Safavid Iran. Islamicate Intellectual History, 3. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

Azadibougar, Omid. World Literature and Hedayat’s Poetics of Modernity. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Banai, Hussein. Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Berberian, Houri. Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019.

Berg, Gabrielle R. van den, and Charles Melville, eds. Shahnama Studies III: The Reception of the Shahnama. Studies in Persian Cultural History, 12. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

Bidel, Mirzâ ʿAbdolqâder. Il Sinai della conoscenza, a cura di Riccardo Zipoli, Venice: Editrice Cafiscarina, 2018. [Italian translation of Tur-e maʿrefat by Bidel.]

Bonner, Michael. The Last Empire of Iran. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020.

Bosworth, C. Edmund, trans. The Ornament of Histories: A History of the Eastern Islamic Lands AD 650–1041: The Original Text of Abū Sa‛īd ‛Abd al-Ḥayy Gardīzī. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Canepa, Matthew P. The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE–642 CE. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018.

Chamankhah, Leila . The Conceptualization of Guardianship in Iranian Intellectual History (1800–1989): Reading Ibn ʿArabī’s Theory of Wilāya in the Shīʿa World. New York: Palgrave, 2019.

Colburn, Henry P. Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Crone, Patricia. The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands. Collected Studies in Three Volumes, Volume 2, ed. Hanna Siurua. Islamic History and Civilization, 130. Leiden: Brill, 2016.

Dabashi, Hamid. Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Daʿadli, Tawfiq. Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting. Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture: Volume 25. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

Durand-Guédy, David, Roy Mottahedeh, and Jürgen Paul, eds. Cities of Medieval Iran. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Fallahzadeh, Mehrdad, and Forogh Hashabeiky, trans. The Sea of Chronicles (Muḥīṭ al-tavārīkh). Studies in Persian Cultural History, 17. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Farzaneh, Mohammad Mateo. Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran–Iraq War. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020.

Fatehrad, Azadeh, ed. ReFocus: The Films of Sohrab Shahid Saless (Exile, Displacement and the Stateless Moving Image). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Feuillebois, Ève. L’Iran médiéval. Paris: Belles Lettres, 2018.

Gabbay, Alyssa. Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Genito, Bruno, ed. Four Lectures on the IsMEO Activities in the Masjed-e Jomʿe of Isfahan. Roma: IsMEO, 2018.

Ghaemmaghami, Omid. Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Godwin, R. Todd. Persian Christians at the Chinese Court: The Xi’an Stele and the Early Medieval Church of the East. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Gyselen, Rika. La Geographie Administrative De L'empire Sassanide: Les temoignages epigraphiques en moyen-perse. Res Orientale, XXV. Bures-sur-Yvette: Groupe pour l'étude de la civilisation du Moyen-Orient, 2019.

Hâfez. Hâfez secondo Abbas Kiarostami, a cura di Riccardo Zipoli, Venice: Cafoscarina, 2017. [Italian translation of the anthology from the Divān of Hāfez by Abbas Kiarostami.]

Hämeen-Anttila, Jaakko. Khwadāynāmag The Middle Persian Book of Kings. Studies in Persian Cultural History, 14. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

Harris, Kevan. A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017.

Hashemi, Ahmad. Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran: An Intellectual History of the Constitutional Revolution. Iranian Studies. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Haug, Robert. The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2019.

Hemmasi, Farzaneh. Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.

Hendelman-Baavur, Liora. Creating the Modern Iranian Woman Popular Culture between Two Revolutions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Herzig, Edmund, and Sarah Stewart, eds. The Age of the Seljuqs. The Idea of Iran, 6. London: I.B. Tauris, 2015.

Hourcade, Bernard. Atlas of Presidential Elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran (1980–2017), 25 maps with analysis in French and English. Paris: Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI), March 2020. http://cartorient.cnrs.fr/cahiers

Hunter, Shireen T. Arab–Iranian Relations: Dynamics of Conflict and Accommodation. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad. A Fire of Lilies: Perspectives on Literature and Politics in Modern Iran. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2019.

Khadivi, Golrang. Islamischer Feminismus im Iran: aus der Perspektive der männlichen Denker seit der Revolution von 1979. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2019.

Korangy, Alireza, Hanadi Al-Samman, and Michael C. Beard, eds. The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures: The Culture of Love and Languishing. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Laufer, Berthold. Sino-Iranica: China and Ancient Iran Commodities and Cultural Exchange from 1000BC to Medieval Times. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017.

Lucas, Ann E. Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019.

Maghbouleh, Neda. The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017.

Mayeur-Jaouen, Cathérine. Adab and Modernity: A Civilising Process? (Sixteenth–Twenty-First Century). Islamic Literatures: Texts and Studies, 3. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

Meidani, Mahdiyeh. Persian Calligraphy: A Corpus Study of Letterforms. Iranian Studies. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Mir-Kasimov, Orkhan, ed. Intellectual Interactions in the Islamic World: The Ismaili Thread. London: I.B. Tauris, 2020.

Moazzen, Maryam. Formation of a Religious Landscape: Shi‘i Higher Learning in Safavid Iran. Islamic History and Civilization: 151. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

Mojab, Shahrzad. Women of a Non-state Nation: The Kurds. Bibliotheca Iranica, Kurdish Studies, 3. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 2018.

Morgan, David O., and Sarah Stewart, eds. The Coming of the Mongols. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Neẓāmi, Khosrow e Širin. Amore e saggezza nella Persian antica, a cura di Daniela Meneghini, Milan: Ariele, 2017. [The first full translation of this poem into Italian.]

Orsatti, Paola. Materials for a History of the Persian Narrative Tradition Two Characters: Farhād and Turandot. Serie orientale (19/4). Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Filologie medievali e modern, 2019.

Parisi, Esther. Juifs et iranien, La communauté judéo-persane depuis la Révolution en Iran et en Israël. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2019.

Rahnema, Ali. Shi’i Reformation in Iran: The Life and Theology of Shari’at Sangelaji. New York, NY: Routledge, 2015.

Rahnema, Ali. La chute de Mossadegh: Les dessous du coup d’Etat en Iran 1953, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2018.

Rezaei Yazdi, Hamid, and Arshavez Mozafari, eds. Persian Literature and Modernity: Production and Reception. Iranian Studies. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.

Rokoee, Reza. L’Iran autrement: Des conflits philosophiques à l’iconophobie. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2017.

Rubanovich, Julia, ed. Orality and Textuality in the Iranian World: Patterns of Interaction Across the Centuries. Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 19. Leiden: Brill, 2015.

Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Eskandar. Revolution and Its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Saffari, Siavash. Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Consmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Sarshar, Houman, ed. The Jews of Iran: The History, Religion and Culture of a Community in the Islamic World. London: I.B. Tauris. 2019.

Schlude, Jason M. Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace: The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East. London: Routledge, 2020.

Shafiee, Katayoun . Machineries of Oil: An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018.

Shahrokni, Nazanin. Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020.

Shakibi, Zhand. Pahlavi Iran and the Politics of Occidentalism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Siavoshi, Sussan. Montazeri: The Life and Thought of Iran's Revolutionary Ayatollah, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Sprachman, Paul. Erotic Persian. Bibliotheca Iranica: Literature, 15. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 2020.

Therme, Clément, ed. L’Iran et ses rivaux: Entre nation et révolution. Paris: Passés composés, 2020.

Uskowi, Nader. Temperature Rising: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Wars in the Middle East. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

Uzun, Mehmet. Tu, a cura di Francesco Marilungo (Italian translation of a Kurdish novel). Roma: IsMEO, 2019.

Vahdat, Vahid. Occidentalist Perceptions of European Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Persian Travel Diaries: Travels in Farangi Space. New York: Routledge, 2017.

Whitney, Katherine, and Leila Emery, eds. My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020.

Yaghoobi, Claudia. Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Yāhaqqi, Mohammad Jaʿfar. Manuale di letteratura e saggistica persiana contemporanea. Trans. Neda Alizadeh Kashani and Raffaele Mauriello. Roma: IsMEO (Ponte 33), 2018.

Zamirirad, Azadeh. Irans Atomdiskurs: eine subsystemische Analyse außenpolitischer Präferenzen in der iranischen Nukleardiplomatie (2003–2015). Baden-Baden: Ergon Verlag, 2019.

Zeini, Arash. Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity: The Pahlavi Version of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.