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 Calligraphy: A Corpus Study of Letterforms
1st Edition
By Mahdiyeh Meidani
April 01, 2021
This book is an exploratory adventure to defamiliarize calligraphy, especially Persian Nastaliq calligraphic letterforms, and to look beyond the tradition that has always considered calligraphy as pursuant to and subordinate to linguistic practices.Calligraphy can be considered a visual ...
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 ...
Persian Literature and Modernity: Production and Reception
1st Edition
Edited
By Hamid Rezaei Yazdi, Arshavez Mozafari
September 30, 2020
Persian Literature and Modernity recasts the history of modern literature in Iran by elucidating the bonds between the classical tradition and modernity and exploring textual, generic and discursive formations through heterodoxical investigations. This is first done through the rehabilitation of ...
Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran: An Intellectual History of the Constitutional Revolution
1st Edition
By Ahmad Hashemi
September 30, 2020
Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is an original historiographic examination of the idea of freedom in early modern Iran within a larger context of the formation of modern Muslim thought. The study develops an appropriate method for the historiography of ideas by taking into consideration...
Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam: Qur'an, Exegesis, Messianism and the Literary Origins of the Babi Religion
1st Edition
By Todd Lawson
December 12, 2019
Of the several works on the rise and development of the Babi movement, especially those dealing with the life and work of its founder, Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi, few deal directly with the compelling and complex web of mysticism, theology and philosophy found in his earliest compositions. This ...
Iran and the Nuclear Question: History and Evolutionary Trajectory
1st Edition
By Mohammad Homayounvash
December 12, 2019
Spanning over a period of more than five decades since its inception, Iran’s nuclear programme is the most protracted civilian nuclear program in the world and one of the most politicized projects in Iran’s history.'Iran and the Nuclear Question' offers a historiographical portrait of Iran’s early ...
Kirman and the Qajar Empire: Local Dimensions of Modernity in Iran, 1794-1914
1st Edition
By James Gustafson
December 12, 2019
Despite its apparently peripheral location in the Qajar Empire, Kirman was frequently found at the centre of developments reshaping Iran in the 19th century. Over the Qajar period the region saw significant changes, as competition between Kirmani families rapidly developed commercial cotton and ...
Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran?
1st Edition
By Mohammad Khorrami
December 12, 2019
The main focus of Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction is to identify components and elements which define Persian modernist fiction, placing an emphasis on literary concepts and devices which provide the dynamics of the evolutionary trajectory of this modernism. The question of ‘...
Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi: Building an Ark
1st Edition
By Prashant Keshavmurthy
December 12, 2019
Writing in the eighteenth century, the Persian-language litterateurs of late Mughal Delhi were aware that they could no longer take for granted the relations of Persian with Islamic imperial power, relations that had enabled Persian literary life to flourish in India since the tenth century ...
Persian Language, Literature and Culture: New Leaves, Fresh Looks
1st Edition
Edited
By Kamran Talattof
December 12, 2019
Critical approaches to the study of topics related to Persian literature and Iranian culture have evolved in recent decades. The essays included in this volume collectively demonstrate the most recent creative approaches to the study of the Persian language, literature, and culture, and the way ...
Popular Iranian Cinema before the Revolution: Family and Nation in Filmfarsi
1st Edition
By Pedram Partovi
December 12, 2019
Critics and academics have generally dismissed the commercial productions of the late Pahlavi era, best known for their songs and melodramatic plots, as shallow, derivative ‘entertainment’. Instead, they have concentrated on the more recent internationally acclaimed art films, claiming that these ...
The Daeva Cult in the Gathas: An Ideological Archaeology of Zoroastrianism
1st Edition
By Amir Ahmadi
December 12, 2019
Addressing the question of the origins of the Zoroastrian religion, this book argues that the intransigent opposition to the cult of the daēvas, the ancient Indo-Iranian gods, is the root of the development of the two central doctrines of Zoroastrianism: cosmic dualism and eschatology (fate of the ...