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.
The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra (RLE Iran C)
1st Edition
By D Irani
February 28, 2011
Zarathusthtra brought about important religious reform in Iran, giving a definitely moral character and direction to religion whilst at the same time preaching the doctrine of monotheism, which offered an eternal foundation of reality to goodness as an ideal of perfection. This volume provides a ...
The Epic of the Kings (RLE Iran B): Shah-Nama the national epic of Persia
1st Edition
By Ferdowsi
February 28, 2011
‘Among the many national poets of historical Persia, Ferdowsi is perhaps the greatest...In this superb translation of the epic, the Western reader would not fail to discern clear equivalents of chapters in Genesis, The Odyssey, Paradise Lost or the Canterbury Tales.’ Islamic ReviewThe Shah-nama is ...
The Iran-Iraq War (RLE Iran A)
1st Edition
By M. EL-Azhary
February 28, 2011
The Iran-Iraq war broke out in September 1980. It brought death and suffering to hundreds of thousands of people on both sides and devastated the economies of both countries. It also increased international tensions by precipitating new alliances and rearrangement of forces in the already turbulent...
The Iranian Military in Revolution and War (RLE Iran D)
1st Edition
By Sepehr Zabir
February 28, 2011
This book is a fascinating critical examination of the characteristics and development of the armed forces in Iran, their role under the Shah and their re-creation in the war against Iraq as the fighting forces of Islam. The author examines the contradictory accounts, including the Shah’s own ...
The Left in Contemporary Iran (RLE Iran D)
1st Edition
By Sepehr Zabir
February 28, 2011
This book examines the structure and ideology of all the main leftist groups in Iran. It considers their role in the Revolution, and analyses their relations with Khomeini and his colleagues. It also explains why the majority of the leftist organisations had defected from the Islamic regime by the ...
The Persian Gulf (RLE Iran A)
1st Edition
By Arnold Wilson
February 25, 2011
This volume records the history of the Persian Gulf from the very earliest records until the 1920s. It records the rise and fall of ancient Empires and discusses the rule of Turks and Arabs. It chronicles the Western maritime nations – the Portuguese, Dutch, French and British – outstrip one ...
The Persian Gulf and the West (RLE Iran D)
1st Edition
By Charles Kupchan
February 25, 2011
This volume provides a broadly comparative and historical re-examination of the fundamental strategic dilemmas that confront the Western world in the Persian Gulf region. This systematic study of how the West has defined and dealt with its security interests in this region reveals three central ...
The Persian Language (RLE Iran B)
1st Edition
By Reuben Levy
February 28, 2011
This book describes the structure of modern Persia, showing the methods by which it conveys meaning in sentences and connected passages and illustrating its special characteristics. As an introduction there is a brief account of Persia, its inhabitants, their occupations and beliefs; some attempt ...
The Persian Sufis (RLE Iran C)
1st Edition
By Cyprian Rice
February 25, 2011
The Sufi phenomenon is not easy to sum up or define. This book is concerned primarily with the Persian mystics and looks at the history of the Sūfi movement, the mystical states, fundamentals of Persian mysticism and Sūfi practices....
The Security of the Persian Gulf (RLE Iran D)
1st Edition
Edited
By Hossein Amirsadeghi
February 25, 2011
The Persian Gulf, important because of its vast energy resources, emerged into the limelight of geopolitics at the time of the British Labour government’s policy of withdrawal from East of Suez in 1968. Before 1968 it had been recognised that the Gulf lay in the legitimate sphere of influence of ...
The Soviet Union and Revolutionary Iran (RLE Iran D)
1st Edition
By Aryeh Yodfat
February 28, 2011
Relations between the USSR and Iran during the period from the overthrow of the Shah and the establishment of the Islamic Republic up to early 1983 are reviewed in this book. It begins with a brief survey of Russian-Persian relations in earlier years, with a focus on the developments that served as...
The Soviet Union and the Arabian Peninsula (RLE Iran D)
1st Edition
By Aryeh Yodfat
February 28, 2011
In the first years of the Soviet regime there was little, if any, Soviet interest in Arabia and the Persian Gulf. Over the last fifty years relations between Russia and this part of the world have become more complex; this book traces their intricate history in a full analysis of Soviet policy ...