Routledge Library Editions: Iran
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions: Iran re-issues 37 volumes originally published between 1902 and 1991. Together they provide a comprehensive view of the culture, history, politics and sociology of this strategically important nation.
Iran and the International Community (RLE Iran D)
1st Edition
By Anoush Ehteshami
April 08, 2011
In this book experts examine the main features of Iran’s foreign policy from 1980 – 1990, assessing relations with the UN, the superpowers, Europe, the GCC and Iraq. Although the Islamic revolution made Iran a significant force in the international arena, it is argued that the ending of the Cold ...
Iraq and Iran (RLE Iran A)
1st Edition
By Jasim Abdulghani
April 08, 2011
Behind the Iran-Iraq war rests a history of conflict stretching back to the Ottoman Turks and the Persians. This book examines the deep-seated and complex factors involved in the rivalry between these two nations. It focuses particularly on the period between 1969 and 1984, a time that saw both the...
Javid-Nama (RLE Iran B)
1st Edition
By Muhammad Iqbal
April 08, 2011
Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1873-1938) was not only amongst the leading political figures of his time, but regarded by many as the spiritual father of Pakistan and a great champion of the reform movement of modern Islam. He was also a poet, in both Urdu and Persian. The recurrent theme of his poems is the...
Modern Iran (RLE Iran A)
1st Edition
By L Elwell-Sutton
April 08, 2011
This volume shows the progress and achievements of Iran up to the 1940s within the setting of her ancient history and her strategic position in the world today. The author discusses Iran’s vital position as the dividing line between the East and the West and how Iran drew from and contributed...
Music and Song in Persia (RLE Iran B): The Art of Avaz
1st Edition
By Lloyd Miller
April 08, 2011
This book is the first full-length analysis of the theory and practice of Persian singing, demonstrating the centrality of Persian elements in the music of the Islamic Middle Ages, their relevance to both contemporary and traditional Iranian music and their interaction with classical Persian poetry...
Outcaste (RLE Iran D): Jewish Life in Southern Iran
1st Edition
By Laurence Loeb
April 08, 2011
This volume is a unique investigation of contemporary Jewish life in a Muslim country and the first ethnography of the Persian-Jewish diaspora, giving the reader a deep appreciation of this relatively unknown culture. The author describes in detail traditional Jewish life in the provincial city of ...
Papers from the Seminar on Fasahat and Balaghat in Classical Persian Literature (RLE Iran B)
1st Edition
Edited
By JULIE MEISAMI, Michael Beard
April 08, 2011
This issue of Edebiyât discusses topics ranging from medieval grammar, prosody and rhetoric to computer-assisted techniques of analysis. It also features excerpts from Michael Cooperson’s translation of Abdelfattah Kilito’s L’Auteur et ses doubles....
Persia (RLE Iran A): History and Heritage
1st Edition
Edited
By John Boyle
April 08, 2011
This book traces the history and culture of Persia, one of the world’s oldest civilisations, from pre-history down to the present time. ...
Persia (RLE Iran A)
1st Edition
By Richard Frye
April 08, 2011
This volume is a fascinating portrait of a part of the world uneasily balanced between many loyalties – East and West, European and Arabic. The coronation of the Shah in 1967 marked the end of the need for foreign aid, and Iran emerged from her struggles to become the leading nation in the Middle ...
Persia and its People (RLE Iran A)
1st Edition
By Ella Sykes
April 08, 2011
This volume gives a popular description of Iran and was the result of the author’s extensive travelling in the country and close knowledge of its people and customs over a period of 3 years at the turn of the nineteenth century....
Persia and the Victorians (RLE Iran A)
1st Edition
By Marzieh Gail
April 08, 2011
The impact of Persian life and literature upon Victorian England was tremendous. It found its public demonstration in the visit of the Shah, but the number of men of letters who turned to the Persian classics for inspiration were as numerous as they were great: William Jones, Charles Murray, Edward...
Studies in Ancient Persian History (RLE Iran A)
1st Edition
By P. Kershasp
April 08, 2011
This volume lays the foundation of a “correct” view of ancient Persian history, which, in the author’s opinion, had hitherto been approached from a “biased standpoint.” It presents a survey of ancient and modern historians such as Gibbon, Malcolm and Rawlinson and critiques their work – either for ...