Iranian Studies
About the Book Series
Since 1967 the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) has been a leading learned society for the advancement of new approaches in the study of Iranian society, history, culture, and literature. The new ISIS Iranian Studies series published by Routledge will provide a venue for the publication of original and innovative scholarly works in all areas of Iranian and Persianate Studies.
Persian Language Pedagogy: New Trends and Innovations
1st Edition
Edited
By Azita Hojatollah Taleghani, Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
November 28, 2025
Persian Language Pedagogy: New Trends and Innovations presents a transformative collection of research and methodologies that revolutionizes how Persian is taught and learned in modern educational settings. This pioneering volume brings together ten chapters that bridge the gap between theoretical...
Politics and Poetica of Rights in Modern Iran: Subjective Rights in the Qajar Period
1st Edition
By Behzad Zerehdaran
July 31, 2025
This book delves into the history of subjective rights within the context of 19th-century Iran, specifically during the eventful Qajar era. The crux of its research lies in the emergence and evolution of the concept of subjective rights as opposed to the notion of objective rights. During this ...
Iran Under the Pahlavi Monarchy: Essays in Iranian History, Politics, Culture and Literature
1st Edition
By Homa Katouzian
May 20, 2025
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 ...
An Intellectual Biography of Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari
1st Edition
By Katajun Amirpur
March 03, 2025
This monograph details the life and ideas of Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari, the leading representative of secular Islam among the Iranian clergy and a pioneer of the Post-Islamist Movements in Iran. Shabestari stands as the leading representative of secular Islam among the Iranian clergy, advocating...
Iranian Motherhood: A Cognitive Approach
1st Edition
By Mohaddeseh Ziyachi
December 18, 2024
This book characterises the problematic status of motherhood in present-day Iranian society – that is, problem in the Foucauldian sense of an object of thought and a source of tension, not as a pathological issue – and explains the historical processes contributing to this problematisation. Taking ...
Translating Rumi into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond
1st Edition
By Amir Sedaghat
October 09, 2024
Focusing on Rumi, the best-selling Persian mystical poet of the 13th century, this book investigates the reception of his work and thought in North America and Europe – and the phenomenon of ‘Rumimania’ – to elucidate the complexities of intercultural communication between the West and the Iranian ...
Evidentiality in Sa'di's Poetry and Prose: A Corpus Stylistic Study
1st Edition
By Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, Masoumeh Mehrabi
August 26, 2024
This study is the first to introduce evidentiality to the stylistic analysis of literary works, specifically that of the great Persian writer Sa'dī, focusing on how he used linguistic means to illustrate a real or ideational world. The authors begin by introducing the concept of evidentiality; its ...
Judeo-Persian Writings: A Manifestation of Intellectual and Literary Life
1st Edition
By Nahid Pirnazar
January 29, 2024
Introducing Judeo-Persian writings, this original collection gives parallel samples in Judeo-Persian and Perso-Arabic script and translations in English. Judeo-Persian writings not only reflect the twenty-seven centuries of Jewish life in Iran, but they are also a testament to their intellectual, ...
Poetry and Revolution: The Poets and Poetry of the Constitutional Era of Iran
1st Edition
Edited
By Homa Katouzian, Alireza Korangy
January 29, 2024
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 ...
Iran's Green Movement: Everyday Resistance, Political Contestation and Social Mobilization
1st Edition
By Navid Pourmokhtari
January 09, 2023
This book examines the emergence and development of the 2009 Green Movement in Iran. The approach emphasizes the context and the local and historical specificities in which mass oppositional movements arise, develop and conduct their operations. Meanwhile, it foregrounds an account of multiple ...
Secularization of Islam in Post-Revolutionary Iran
1st Edition
By Mahmoud Pargoo
January 09, 2023
Examining the trajectory of the secularization of Islam in Iran, this book explains how efforts to Islamize society led, self-destructively, to its secularization. The research engages a range of debates across different fields, emphasizing the political and epistemological instability of the basic...
Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran: Between Ideology and Pragmatism
1st Edition
By Przemyslaw Osiewicz
November 30, 2020
Providing a well-balanced and impartial perspective on the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, this book contributes to a better understanding of the current foreign policy of Iran, especially its internal and external determinants. Combining theoretical and practical aspects, it ...