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.
The Sih-Rozag in Zoroastrianism: A Textual and Historico-Religious Analysis
1st Edition
By Enrico Raffaelli
December 12, 2019
Focusing on the Avestan and Pahlavi versions of the Sīh-rōzag, a text worshipping Zoroastrian divine entities, this book explores the spiritual principles and physical realities associated with them. Introducing the book is an overview of the structural, linguistic and historico-religious elements ...
The Thousand and One Borders of Iran: Travel and Identity
1st Edition
By Fariba Adelkhah
December 12, 2019
A country marked by controversy, Iran’s social, cultural and political dynamics are too often reduced to a few misleading clichés. Islamism is widely considered to shape all social relations in Iranian society and, while Iranian society is indeed Islamic, this term’s multiple meanings in everyday ...
The True Dream: Indictment of the Shiite clerics of Isfahan, an English translation with facing Persian text
1st Edition
Edited
By Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Sen McGlinn
December 12, 2019
The True Dream is a Persian satirical drama set in Isfahan in the lead up to Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11. Although its three authors hail from the clerical class, they criticize the arrogance, corruption and secularity of the Iranian ruling dynasty and clergy, taking Isfahan as ...
Iran and Palestine: Past, Present, Future
1st Edition
By Seyed Alavi
July 30, 2019
Examining the nature of relations between Iran and Palestine, this book investigates the relationship between state and authorities in the Middle East. Analysing the connections of the Iranian revolutionary movements, both the Left and the Islamic camps’ perspectives are scrutinized. To provide a...
Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond
1st Edition
By GJ Breyley, Sasan Fatemi
April 16, 2018
The word motreb finds its roots in the Arabic verb taraba, meaning ‘to make happy.’ Originally denoting all musicians in Iran, motrebi came to be associated, pejoratively, with the cheerful vulgarity of the lowbrow entertainer. In Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment, GJ Breyley and Sasan ...
Iran and Russian Imperialism: The Ideal Anarchists, 1800-1914
1st Edition
By Moritz Deutschmann
January 24, 2018
Rather than a centralized state, Iran in the nineteenth century was a delicate balance between tribal groups, urban merchant communities, religious elites, and an autocratic monarchy. While Russia gained an increasingly dominant political role in Iran over the course of this century, Russian ...
The Development of the Babi/Baha'i Communities: Exploring Baron Rosen's Archives
1st Edition
By Youli Ioannesyan
December 18, 2017
Baron Rosen’s Babi/Baha’i archives presents private letters and diplomatic correspondence from the nineteenth century, preserved among the prominent Russian scholar Baron Victor Rosen’s materials in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg branch. The materials cast light on ...
The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics: Elites and Shifting Relations
1st Edition
By Bayram Sinkaya
December 18, 2017
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been dubbed the ‘kingmaker’ in recent studies of Iranian politics, precipitating heated debates surrounding the potential militarization of the Iranian regime and giving rise to paradoxical understandings of the IRGC; whether as a military ...
The Historiography of Persian Architecture
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohammad Gharipour
December 15, 2017
Historiography is the study of the methodology of writing history, the development of the discipline of history, and the changing interpretations of historical events in the works of individual historians. Exploring the historiography of Persian art and architecture requires a closer look at a ...
Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on stage
1st Edition
By Ida Meftahi
December 13, 2017
Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage investigates the ways dancing bodies have been providing evidence for competing representations of modernity, urbanism, and religiosity across the twentieth century. Focusing on the transformation of the staged dancing body, its space of...
Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah: The Pahlavi State, New Bourgeoisie and the Creation of a Modern Society in Iran
1st Edition
Edited
By Bianca Devos, Christoph Werner
December 08, 2017
Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah presents a collection of innovative research on the interaction of culture and politics accompanying the vigorous modernization programme of the first Pahlavi ruler. Examining a broad spectrum of this multifaceted interaction it makes an important ...
Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era
1st Edition
By Pamela Karimi
December 08, 2017
Examining Iran’s recent history through the double lens of domesticity and consumer culture, Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran demonstrates that a significant component of the modernization process in Iran advanced beyond political and public spheres. On the cusp of Iran’s entry into ...