The leading authority on slavery and the African diaspora in modern Iran presents the first history of slavery in this key Middle Eastern country and shows how slavery helped to shape the nation's unique character.

Organized thematically, this book provides top-level briefings by 50 top experts on Iran (both Iranian and Western authors) and is a practical and accessible "go-to" resource for practitioners, policymakers, academics, and students, as well ...

The book will be of interest to students and scholars of foreign policy analysis and international relations.

A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside of Berlin lies at the heart of this novel. This novel offers us the stories of twelve individuals who make their homes here. 'You shouldn't trust anybody completely,' Jen says. 'Why not?

Identical twin brothers Ruzbeh and Behruz fall in love with the same girl.

Inhalt: M. J. Olbrycht: Kultur der Steppengebiete - A. Invernizzi: Parthian Nisa - V. S. Curtis: The Parthian Costume and Headdress - H. von Gall: Architektur und Plastik unter den Parthern - R. M. Schneider: Bilder der Parther und des ...

How different factions of the clergy, or ulama first lost and then regained a powerful position in Iran is the subject of this book.

"Persia and Rome in Classical Judaism examines the representation of Rome and Persia (Iran) in the successive groups of documents that comprise the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity.

The book includes numerous photographs and a map, an index, and an appendix with copies of key documents and correspondence

A richly-illustrated and important book that traces the rise and fall of one of the ancient world's largest and richest empires.

"This is a translation of 11 traditional texts of Iranian Islam from the 12th century to the present, with 100 pages of introduction by Professor Corbin.

Not Without My Son is the memoir of Iranian-born Dr. Mariam Naseem, a Jewish woman who must flee for her safety from the new theocracy of Iran.

This book provides summary data on the archaeological excavations of Banesh Period (ca. 3400-2600 B.C.) levels in Operation ABC at Tal-e Malyan, site of the Elamite royal city of Anshan.

Examines the broad-ranging domestic roles of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, assessing its influence over Iran's political culture, economy, and society and its ability to shape the political future of the Islamic Republic of ...

Aus dem Inhalt: Cyprus before and under the Achaemenids: Problems in Chronology, Strategy, Assimilation and Ethnicity u The Parks and Gardens of the Achaemenid Empire u The Place of Persia in Athenian Literatur: Tragedy, Persian Landscape ...

Studying intellectual trends in Iran in a global historical context, this new intellectual history challenges many dominant paradigms in Iranian historiography and offers a new revisionist interpretation of Iranian modernity.

With summary in Persian.

As the Islamic Republic enters its fifth decade, this book sheds new light on Iran's controversial nuclear and missile programs and its involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.

An examination of how Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) view their history and their roles in the Iran-Iraq War.

Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to understand U.S. and Iranian relations from the fall of the Shah in 1978 through the ...

This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam's many identities through both archaeological and written evidence, and brings to life one of the most important regions of Western Asia, re-evaluates its significance, and places ...

First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Psycho-nationalism focuses on the history of the use of Iranian identity under the Shah, as well as by the governments since the 1979 Iranian revolution, to offer an exploration into the psychological and political roots of national ...

In Empire of Terror Mark D. Silinsky argues that Iran is one of the United States’ deadliest enemies.

"Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps increasingly poses an existential threat to Western security and to Sunni and the few non-Muslim civilizations remaining in the Middle East. Empire of Terror captures this.

This book is the first to use Persian Documents as the sources of social history in Early Modern Iran and Central Asia.

American alliance policy was forged in the crucible of the rivalry with the Soviet Union and it is suggested that the collection of alliances was considered a zero- sum game with the communist enemy.

An innovative study of the political decentralization of Iran and the failure of elected local government to democratize the authoritarian regime.

More than seventy years later, this interesting story has remained untold. August 1941 is the first detailed and documented account of the affair.

Dr. Maria Macuch, Institut fur Iranistik der Freien Universitat Berlin (Zur juristischen Terminologie der Berliner Pahlavi-Dokumente), und ein weiterer von Frau Myriam Krutzsch, Restauratorin am Agyptischen Museum in Berlin (Die Falttechnik ...

An exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon.

The story is a dramatic one, recounting the mythical origins of the tribes, their unification as a confederacy, and their decline under the Pahlavi Shahs. The book is intended as a contribution to three different debates.

Dieses Buch bietet einen anschaulichen und allgemein-verständlichen Überblick über die Geschichte Irans.

It is not alone in Bohemia’s mountainous regions that the romantic characters are found which form the basis of Weber’s immortal fictions.

Mit der Bearbeitung der apokalyptischen Texte und ihrer thematischen Klassifizierung bietet Raei ein umfassendes Bild der zoroastrischen Endzeitvorstellungen.Ebook lieferbar unter www.e-cademics.de

Since the turn of the century Iran has experienced three major political upheavals in the struggle to democratize her political systems.

Volume II of the much awaited Memoirs of Ardeshir Zahedi covers the period 1954 to 1965.

"This work makes an important contribution. . . . It also introduces a fascinating young observer from Venice full of humor and curiosity about everything."—Oleg Grabar, author of The Formation of Islamic Art

"Faraj" is a Farsi word meaning an opening, a blessing, a space of possibility. Ābtin journeys for a whole year, across deserts and mountains to the sea.

This book focuses on children and compliments her earlier work on women of the same village (see document no. 6.) The same families and names appear in both books.

First comprehensive collection of evidence of the relations between Athens and Persia in fifth century BC.

The impact of Persian life and literature upon Victorian England was tremendous.

The impact of Persian life and literature upon Victorian England was tremendous.

Offers a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the formal and informal institutions through which the Iranian state operates.

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She was twenty-seven before she returned to Iran, drawn inexorably back by memories of her grandmother's house in Abadan, with its traditional inner courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very wallssteeped in history.The Cypress Tree is ...

Bridging the traditional divide between classical and Iranian history, this book brings to life the dazzling courts of two global powers that deeply affected the cultures of medieval Europe, Byzantium, Islam, South Asia, and China. “This ...

Bridging the traditional divide between classical and Iranian history, this book brings to life the dazzling courts of two global powers that deeply affected the cultures of medieval Europe, Byzantium, Islam, South Asia, and China.