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.
Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity
1st Edition
By Nasrin Rahimieh
June 16, 2017
Throughout modern Iranian history, culture has served as a means of imposing unity and cohesion onto society. The Pahlavi monarchs used it to project an image of Iran as an ancient civilisation, re-emerging as an equal to Western nations, while the revolutionaries deployed it to remake the country ...
Social Movements in Iran: Environmentalism and Civil Society
1st Edition
By Simin Fadaee
June 16, 2017
Despite the growing significance of social movements worldwide, scholarship on the subject remains largely Western in nature, with studies written primarily by Western scholars and based on the experiences of Western cultures and societies. This book makes an important contribution to the study of ...
Nomads in Postrevolutionary Iran: The Qashqa'i in an Era of Change
1st Edition
By Lois Beck
May 24, 2017
Examining the rapid transition in Iran from a modernizing, westernizing, secularizing monarchy (1941-79) to a hard-line, conservative, clergy-run Islamic republic (1979-), this book focuses on the ways this process has impacted the Qashqa’i—a rural, nomadic, tribally organized, Turkish-speaking, ...
Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change
1st Edition
By Kamran Matin
July 22, 2015
Critically deploying the idea of uneven and combined development this book provides a novel non-Eurocentric account of Iran’s experience of modernity and revolution. Recasting Iranian Modernity presents the argument that Eurocentrism can be decisively overcome through a social theory that has ...
Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions since 1800
1st Edition
Edited
By Dr Stephanie Cronin
September 11, 2014
Over the past two hundred years, encounters between Iran and Russia have been both rich and complex. This book explores the myriad dimensions of the Iranian-Russian encounter during a dramatic period which saw both Iran and Russia subject to revolutionary upheavals and transformed from ...
Islamic Tolerance: Amir Khusraw and Pluralism
1st Edition
By Alyssa Gabbay
August 12, 2014
Although pluralism and religious tolerance are most often associated today with Western Enlightenment thinkers, the roots of these ideologies stretch back to non-Western and premodern societies, including many under Muslim rule. This book explores the development of pluralism in Islam in South Asia...
City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran: Shiraz, History and Poetry
1st Edition
By Setrag Manoukian
March 19, 2014
This book presents a cultural history of modern Iran from the point of view of Shiraz, a city famous for its poetry and its traditions of scholarship. Exploring the relationship among history, poetry and politics, the book analyses how Shiraz came to be defined as the country’s cultural capital, ...
Domestic Violence in Iran: Women, Marriage and Islam
1st Edition
By Zahra Tizro
March 07, 2014
This book offers a new methodological and theoretical approach to the highly sensitive and complicated issue of violence against women in contemporary Iran. Challenging the widespread notion that secularisation and modernisation are the keys to emancipating women, the author instead posits that ...
Gender in Contemporary Iran: Pushing the Boundaries
1st Edition
Edited
By Roksana Bahramitash, Eric Hooglund
March 07, 2014
This book examines gender and the dynamics of social change in contemporary Iran, documenting the changes in women’s lives and showing how women have now become agents of social change rather than victims. Bringing together the detailed primary research of a number of eminent scholars working in ...
New Perspectives on Safavid Iran: Empire and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin P. Mitchell
March 07, 2014
Dedicated to the renowned Safavid historian Roger Savory, this book brings together a collection of studies on the Safavid state of Iran (1501-1722) from the perspectives of political, social, literary, and artistic history. Savory, a doyen of Safavid studies in the 1960s and 1970s, was ...
Continuity in Iranian Identity: Resilience of a Cultural Heritage
1st Edition
By Fereshteh Davaran
February 25, 2014
Despite changes in sovereignty and in religious thought, certain aspects of Iranian culture and identity have persisted since antiquity. Drawing on an exploration of history, religion and literature to define Iranian cultural identity and link the Persian past with more recent cultural and ...
Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan: Anomalous Visions of History and Form
1st Edition
By Wali Ahmadi
February 25, 2014
With the unleashing of the "War on Terror" in the aftermath of 9/11, Afghanistan has become prominent in the news. However, we need to appreciate that no substantive understanding of contemporary history, politics and society of this country can be achieved without a thorough analysis of the Afghan...