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Iranian Studies eBook Series

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  • Parvin E‘tesami and Persian Poetry

    A Critical Literary Biography

    by Homa Katouzian ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    Parvin E'tesami and Persian Poetry: A Critical Literary Biography offers the first comprehensive, critically rigorous examination of Parvin E'tesami within the context of the conflict between ‘new’ and ‘old’ Persian poetry. She was the pioneering female poet who impacted the landscape of modern Persian literature.Spanning the crucial decades of Persian poetry's transition from classical to modern ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Iran Under the Pahlavi Monarchy

    Essays in Iranian History, Politics, Culture and Literature

    by Homa Katouzian ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    Bringing together eighteen essays from Homa Katouzian, this book explores Iranian history, politics, culture and Persian literature from mediaeval times through the nineteenth century and into the contemporary period.Beginning with an overview of mediaeval Iranian history, the book then considers developments in the nineteenth century leading to the Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911, which ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Iran in the 21st Century

    Politics, Economics & Conflict

    Edited by Homa Katouzian, Hossein Shahidi ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    Iran is an ancient country, an oil-exporting economy and an Islamic Republic. It experienced two full-scale revolutions in the twentieth century, the latter of which had large and important regional and international consequences, including an eight-year war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. And now in the twenty-first century, it confronts issues and experiences problems which have important ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Iran

    Politics, History and Literature

    by Homa Katouzian ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine.Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society against the state; the main objective of the first being to establish lawful government to make ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Sadeq Hedayat

    His Work and his Wondrous World

    Edited by Homa Katouzian ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collection provides detailed scholarly analysis of Hedayat's life and work using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches.Hedayat is the author of The Blind Owl, the most famous Persian novel both in Iran and in Europe and America. Many of his ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Poetry and Revolution

    The Poets and Poetry of the Constitutional Era of Iran

    Edited by Homa Katouzian, Alireza Korangy ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    Compiled by experts on the works of each individual poet, this book covers the poetry and poets of the Constitutional Revolution of Iran.Following a two-pronged approach, this volume studies both those who were influenced by the Constitutional Revolution in their works and those who addressed the Revolution with their work, influencing it directly. Through the analysis of their works, this volume ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran

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    $56.99 CAD

  • A History of Iran

    Empire of the Mind

    by Michael Axworthy ...
    The definitive history of Iran, from the ancient Persian empires to today.**“Michael Axworthy’s deft untangling of the country’s history, from the advent of Zoroastrianism to the 1979 revolution, is a stunning achievement.” -**GuardianIran 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 ... Read more

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  • Notes on a Century

    Reflections of a Middle East Historian

    by Bernard Lewis, Buntzie Ellis Churchill ...
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Went Wrong? tells the story of his extraordinary lifeAfter September 11, Americans who had never given much thought to the Middle East turned to Bernard Lewis for an explanation, catapulting What Went Wrong? and later Crisis of Islam to become number one bestsellers. He was the first to warn of a coming "clash of civilizations," a term he coined in ... Read more

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  • Debunking the Myths of Colonization

    The Arabs and Europe

    by Samar Attar ...
    Debunking the Myths of Colonization. examines Salman Rushdie's thesis on the paradoxical nature of colonialism and its horrific impact on the psyche of the colonized. It probes Frantz Fanon's theories concerning the relationship between colonizers and colonized, and attempts to apply these theories to modern Arabic literature. Like Rushdi and Fanon, many Arab writers have embarked on a journey to ... Read more

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  • Being Arab

    by Samir Kassir ...
    Translated by Will Hobson ...
    In the years before his assassination in 2005, Samir Kassir became one of Lebanon’s foremost public intellectuals, a fearless critic of tyranny and an inspiring advocate of democracy. In Being Arab, his last book, he calls on the peoples of the Middle East to reject both Western double standards and Islamism in order to take the future of the region into their own hands. With the Arab Spring, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD