From its current issue Iranian Studies will be adding a new section presenting a selective list of scholarly books published in the past four years in different disciplines within the general scope of Iranian studies. It currently includes only works published in European languages. The list is not exhaustive and does not follow a chronological order of publication. Titles that have already been reviewed in the journal are not listed.
Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin. Psycho-Nationalism: Global Thought, Iranian Imaginations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Allsen, Thomas T. The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Al-Rahim, Ahmed H. The Creation of the Philosophical Tradition: Biography and the Reception of Avicenna’s Philosophy from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century A.D. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018.
Amanat, Abbas, and Assef Ashraf (eds.). The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Iran Studies, 18), 2019.
Ansari, Ali M (ed.). Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and Narratives of the Enlightenment. London: Gingko Library, 2017.
Arabadzhan, Zaven A. Iranskoe masonstvo i ego rol' v sotsial'no-politicheskom razvitii strany: (ot istokov po nachalo 20-ogo veka) [Iranian Freemasonry and its role in the socio-political development of the country: from origins to the beginning of the 20th c.]. Moscow: Tovariscchestvo nauchnykh izdanii KMK, 2019.
Asatryan, Mushegh. Controversies in Formative Shiʾi Islam The Ghulat Muslims and their Beliefs. London: I. B. Tauris, 2017.
Askari, Nasrin. The Medieval Reception of the Shāhnāma as a Mirror for Princes. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Studies in Persian Cultural History, 9), 2016.
Aube, Sandra. La céramique dans l’architecture en Iran au XVe siècle: les arts qarâ quyûnlûs et âq quyûnlûs. Paris: Presses de l’université Paris-Sorbonne, 2017.
Ayatollahi Tabaar, Mohammad. Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
Babaie, Susan (ed.). Iran after the Mongols. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, 2019.
Bajoghli, Narges. Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019.
Balafrej, Lamia. The Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
Balaÿ, Christophe. La crise de la conscience iranienne: Histoire de la prose persane moderne (1800–1980). Collection l’Iran en transition. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2017.
Balslev, Sivan. Iranian Masculinities: Gender and Sexuality in Late Qajar and Early Pahlavi Iran. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Barry, James. Armenian Christians in Iran. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Boroujerdi, Mehrzad, and Kourosh Rahimkhani. Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018.
Berberian, Houri. Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019.
Bournoutian, George. Armenia and Imperial Decline: The Yerevan Province, 1900–1914. Foreword by Ronald G. Suny. New York: Routledge (Routledge Advances in Armenian Studies), 2018.
Brentjes, Sonja. Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies (800–1700). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2018.
Broadbridge, Anne. Women and the Making of Mongol Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz. Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Poetry, Performance and Patronage in Fourteenth Century Iran. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, 2019.
Crignon, Claire, and David Lefebvre (eds.). Médecins et philosophes: Une histoire. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2019.
Crone, Patricia. The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands (Collected Studies in Three Volumes, vol. 2, ed. Hanna Siurua). Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Islamic History and Civilization, 130), 2016.
Dabashi, Hamid. The Shahnamesh: The Persian Epic as World Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
Daneshvar, Esfaindyar. La littérature transculturelle franco-persane. Une évolution littéraire depuis les années 80. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Davis, Dick (intro. and trans.). The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women. Washington, DC: Mage, 2019.
Dehdarian, Roya. Selbstentwürfe in der Fremde. Der iranische Schriftsteller Bozorg Alavi im deutschen Exil (Bamberger Orientstudien, 11). Bamberg: Bamberg University Press, 2018.
DeWeese, Devin, and Jo-Ann Gross (eds.). Sufism in Central Asia: New Perspectives on Sufi Traditions, 15th–21st Centuries. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Uralic & Central Asian Studies, 25), 2018.
Dunaeva, Elena (ed. and compiler). Iran v usloviyakh novykh geopoliticheskikh realii: (k 40-letiyu Islanskoy revgolyutsii): sbornik statey [Iran in the conditions of the new geopolitical realities: (on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution)]. Moscow: Sadra, 2019.
Eaton, Richard M. India in the Persianate Age 1000–1765. London: Penguin Books, 2019.
Eden, Jeff. Slavery and Empire in Central Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Eden, Jeff. Warrior Saints of the Silk Road: Legends of the Qarakhanids. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Uralic & Central Asian Studies, 26), 2019.
Esfandiary, Dina and Ariane Tabatabai. Triple axis: Iran's relations with Russia and China. Series: Library of International Relations (Book 86). London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2018.
Farrokh, Faridoun (ed.). Bright Diversities of Day: Essays on Persian Literature and Culture in Honor of M. R. Ghanoonparvar. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 2017.
Feuillebois, Eve. L’Iran médiéval. Paris: Les Belles Leters, 2018.
Foltz, Richard. A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, 2019.
Formherz, Allen James (ed.). Gulf in World History: Arabian, Persian and Global Connections. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
de Fouchécour, Charles-Henri (trans. and intro). La quête du Joyau : paroles inouïes de Shams, maître de Jalâl al-din Rûmi, traduction, in collaboration with Seyyed Rezâ Feyz. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2017.
Funke, Christian. Ästhetik, Politik und schiitische Repräsentation im zeitgenössischen Iran. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Iran Studies, 15), 2017.
Ganiev, Takhir, Sergey Zadonskiy, Vladimir Karyakin. Voennaya moshch Islamskoy Respubliki Iran: voennaya politika i vooruzhonnye sily strany [The military power of the Islamic Republic of Iran: Military policy and the armed forces of the country], Vols. 1-2. Moscow: Institut Blizhnego Vostoka, 2019.
Gasanly, Dzhamil’. Sovetskaya politika po rasshireniyu yuzhnykh granits: Stalin I azerbaydzhanskaya karta v bor'be za neft' (1939-1945) [Soviet policy on the expansion of the southern borders: Stalin and the Azerbaijan card in the struggle over oil], tr. from the Azeri into Russian by I. N. Rzaev. Moscow: Rossiyskaya politicheskaya enciklopediya, 2017.
Gazerani, Saghi. The Sistani Cycle of Epics and Iran’s National History: On the Margins of Historiography. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Studies in Persian Cultural History, 7), 2016.
Ghardashkhani, Goulia. Another Place: Identity, Space, and Transcultural Signification in Goli Taraqqi’s Fiction. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Iran Studies, 17), 2017.
Gheissari, Ali, John Walbridge, and Ahmed Alwishah (eds.). Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies: Essays in Memory of Hossein Ziai. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Iran Studies, 16), 2017.
Ghiabi, Maziyar. Drug Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Ghiasian, Mohamad, R. Lives of the Prophets: The Illustrations to Hafz-i Abru’s “Assembly of Chronicles.” Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Studies in Persian Cultural History, 16), 2018.
Godwin, R. Todd. Persian Christians at the Chinese Court: The Xi'an Stele and the Early Medieval Church of the East. London: I. B. Tauris (Library of Medieval Studies), Reprint edition, 2019.
Habibi, Negar. ʿAli Qoli Jebādār et l’Occidentalism safavide. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Studies in Persian Cultural History, 13), 2017.
Hanaoka, Mimi. Authority and Identity in Medieval Islamic Historiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Persian Histories from the Peripheries), 2016.
Hermann, Denis. Le shaykhisme à la période qajare (Miroir de l’orient musulman, 6). Turnhout: Brepols, 2017.
Hermann, Denis and Mathieu Terrier (eds.). Shi'i Islam and Sufism: Classical Views and Modern Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
Hirschler, Konrad. Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library, The Ashrafya Library Catalogue. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
Huber, Marie. Memories of an Impossible Future: Mehdi Akhavān Sāles and the Poetics of Time. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Iran Studies, 14), 2016.
Hutter, Manfred. Iranische Religionen: Zoroastrismus, Yezidentum, Baha’itum. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019.
Hyland, John. Persian Interventions: The Achaemenid Empire, Athens, and Sparta, 450-386 BCE. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Ibn Kanmmūna al-Baghdādi, Saʿd ibn Mansur. Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice, trans. with an introduction and commentary by Y. Tzvi Langermann. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2019.
Javadi, Hasan (ed.). Collected Dramatic Works of Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh: And the Story of Yusuf Shah. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers (Bibliotheca Iranica: Performing Arts Series 13), 2019.
Kamaly, Hossein. God and Man in Tehran: Contending Visions of the Divine from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Kamola, Stefan. Making of Mongol History: Rashid al-Din and the Jami' al-Tawarikh. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
Karimi, Maral. The Iranian Green Movement: Reverberating Echoes of Resistance. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018.
Katouzian, Homa. Khalil Maleki: The Human Face of Iranian Socialism. London: Oneworld Academic (Radical Histories of the Middle East), 2018.
Khazeni, Arash. The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press (California World History Library, 29), 2020.
Kia, Chad. Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shiism in Iran, 1487–1565. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
Kia, Mana. Persianate Slaves: Memories of Place and Origin before Nationalism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020.
Kondo, Nobuaki. Islamic Law and Society in Iran: A Social History of Qajar Tehran. London and New York: Routledge, 2017.
Langford, Michelle. Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
Laufer, Berthold. Sino-Iranica: China and Ancient Iran: Commodities and Cultural Exchange from 1000 BC to Medieval Times. Reprint edition. London: I. B. Tauris, 2018.
Lee, Joo-Yup. Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs: State and Identity in Post-Mongol Central Eurasia. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Studies in Persian Cultural History, 8), 2016.
van Leeuwen, Richard. Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300–1800. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Rulers & Elites, 11), 2017.
van Lit, L. W. Cornelis. The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy Ibn Sina, Suhrawardi, Shahrazuri and Beyond. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Lucas, Ann E. Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019.
Manteghi, Haila. Alexander the Great in the Persian Tradition: History, Myth and Legend in Medieval Iran. London: I. B. Tauris (Library of Medieval Studies, 8), 2018.
Martini, Giovanni Maria. ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla al-Simnānī between Spiritual Authority and Political Power. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Islamicate Intellectual History, 4), 2017.
Matthee, Rudi and Elena Andreeva (eds.). Russians in Iran: diplomacy and power in the Qajar era and beyond. London: I. B. Tauris, 2018.
May, Timothy. The Mongol Empire. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Mirsepassi, Ali. Iran’s Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (The Global Middle East, 9), 2019.
Mogtader, Youssef, and Gregor Schoeler. Turandot Die persische Märchenerzählung: Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2017.
Morgan, David, and Sarah Stewart (eds.). The Coming of the Mongols. London: I. B. Tauris (The Idea of Iran, 7), 2018.
Morikawa, Tomoko, and Christoph Werner (eds.). Vestiges of the Razavi Shrine: Āthār al-Rażavīya, a Catalogue of Endowments and Deeds to the Shrine of Imam Riza in Mashhad. Tokyo: Toyo Bunko (Toyo Bunko Research Library, 17), 2017.
Nanquette, Laetitia, and Ali Alizadeh (eds.). Persian Passages, Southerly, vol. 76. Sydney: Brandl & Schlesinger, 2017.
Natif, Mika. Mughal Occidentalism: Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580-1630. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Studies in Persian Cultural History, 15), 2018.
O’Flynn, Thomas S. R. The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c. 1760–c. 1870. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Studies in Christian Mission, 47), 2017.
Papas, Alexander. Thus Spake the Dervish: Sufism, Language, and the Religious Margins in Central Asia, 1400–1900. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Studies on Sufism, 4), 2019.
Partovi, Pedram. Popular Iranian Cinema before the Revolution: Family and Nation in Filmfarsi. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2017.
Pierce, Matthew. Ja’far al-Sadiq: Shi’a Imam, Suf Saint, Sunni Teacher. Oxford: Oneworld (Makers of the Muslim World), 2020.
Pourjavady, Reza (ed.). Philosophy in Qajar Iran. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1: The Near and Middle East, 127), 2018.
Rapoport, Yossef and Emilie Savage-Smith. Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Reisner, Marina L. and Anna N. Ardashnikova. Persidskaya literatura 9-18 vekov [Persian literature of the 9th-18th cc.] in 2 vols. Vol. 1: Persidskaya literature domongol'skogo vremeni (9-nachalo 13 veka). Period formirovaniya kanona: Rannyaya klassika. [Persian literature of the pre-Monghol period, 9th-13th cc.: The formation of the canon: Early classical period]. Moscow: Sadra, 2019.
Rekabtalaei, Golbarg. Iranian Cosmopolitanism A Cinematic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (The Global Middle East, 3), 2019.
Rodríguez-Arribas, Josefna, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech (eds.). Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2017.
Rumi: Poems from the Divan-e Shams, ed. and trans. Geoffrey Squires, Oxford, OH: Miami University Press, 2020.
van Ruymbeke, Christine. Kashefi’s Anvar-e Sohayli: Rewriting Kalila wa-Dimna in Timurid Herat. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Studies in Persian Cultural History, 11), 2016.
Saalfeld, Florian, and Nader Purnaqcheband (eds.). Aus den Tiefenschichten der Texte: Beiträge zur turko-iranischen Welt von der Islamisierung bis zur Gegenwart. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2019.
de Sartiges, Étienne-Gilbert-Eugène. La Cour de Téhéran ou Ne réveillez pas le chat qui dort. Pièce de théâtre sur l'Iran des Qâjâr. Éditée et traduite de français en persan par Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam. Le Pré Saint-Gervais: L'Asiathèque, 2019.
Schmidtke, Sabine (ed.). Materials for the Intellectual History of Imāmī Shīʿism in the Safavid Period (A Facsimile Edition of Ms New York Public Library, Arabic Manuscripts Collections Volume 51985A). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018.
Schmidtke, Sabine and Hassan Ansari (intro. and trans.). The Zaydi Reception of Bahshamite Muʿtazilizm Facsimile Edition of Ms Shiraz, Library of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Shiraz (ʿAllāma Tabātabāʾī Library), Majmūʿa 102). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2019.
Sedarat, Roger. Emerson in Iran: The American Appropriation of Persian Poetry. New York: State University of New York Press, 2019.
Sedighi, Anousha, and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Selove, Emily (ed.). Baghdad at the Center of the World, 8th–13th Century: An Introductory Textbook. Silver Goat Media, LLC, Fargo, ND: Theran Press. 2019.
Shams de Tabriz. La quête du Joyau. See de Fouchécour.
Silverman, Jason M. Persian Royal Judaean Elite Engagements in the Early Teispid and Achaemenid Empire: The King's Acolytes (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies). London: I. B. Tauris, 2019.
Speziale, Fabrizio. Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, 11). Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Stebbins, H. Lyman. British Imperialism in Qajar Iran: Consuls, Agents and Influence in the Middle East. London: I. B. Tauris (International Library of Iranian Studies), 2016.
Sternfeld, Lior B. Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018.
Vafa, Amirhossein. Recasting American and Persian Literature: Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby Dick to Missing Soluch. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Venetis, Evangelos. The Persian Alexander: The First Complete English Translation of the Iskandarnāma. London: I. B. Tauris, 2018.
Windfuhr, Gernot. Sacred Numbers and Cyclical Time. The Mathematical Logic of Zarathushtra's Gatha Quatrains. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda (Bibliotheca Iranica: Zoroastrian Studies, 4), 2019.
Wood, Barry (ed. and trans.), The Adventures of Shāh Esmāʿil: A Seventeenth-Century Persian Popular Romance. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (https://brill.com/view/serial/SPAL, Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World, 8), 2018.
Yavari, Neguin. The Future of Iran’s Past: Nizam al-Mulk Remembered. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit. Reorienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, (2021).
Zaman, Muhammad Qasim. Islam in Pakistan: A History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.
Zargar, Cyrus Ali. Polished Mirror: Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism. London: Oneworld Publications, 2018.
