Iranian Studies

Ayatollah Khomeini: From Islamic Government to Sovereign State

Knowledge and Power in the Philosophies of Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī and Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī

Treaty of Zohab, 1639: Foundational Myth or Foundational Document?

The Pahlavi National Library Project: Education and Modernization in Late Pahlavi Iran

Aspirations and Job Success of Highly Qualified Second Generation Iranians in Germany

Iran: Stuck in Transition

Between Fantasy and Philosophy: Saʿdi, Translator of Voltaire’s Zadig

William Lippincott Hanaway Jr. (1929‒2018): Professor of Persian Literature

The Safavid-Qizilbash Ecumene and the Formation of the Qizilbash-Alevi Community in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1500–c. 1700

Saʿdi in European Languages and Literatures: An Annotated Bibliography

Ali Reza Sheikholeslami, 1941–2018

Compilations of the Bustān of Saʿdī in Iran, Central Asia, and Turkey, ca. 1470–1550

A Messiah Untamed: Notes on the Philology of Shah Ismāʿīl’s Dīvān

The Mazandarani Dialect of Kalijān Rostāq

The Age of Aryamehr: Late Pahlavi Iran and its Global Entanglements

Beyond Orientalism: When Marceline Desbordes-Valmore carried Saʿdi’s Roses to France

The East India Company’s Farmān, 1622‒1747

Iran: A Modern History

Rethinking Idris-i Bidlisi: An Iranian Bureaucrat and Historian between the Shah and the Sultan

The Dragoman and the Scholar: Two Polish Translations of Saʿdi’s Golestān

“Mysticism” in Iran: The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept

A History of Persian Literature, Vol. IX, Persian Literature from Outside Iran: The Indian Subcontinent, Anatolia, Central Asia, and in Judeo-Persian

Traces of Pharyngeal Consonants in Isfahani Persian: A Case of Language Contact

Gilbert Lazard: Linguist and Iranologist (Paris, 4 February 1920–Paris, 6 September 2018)

A Sogdian Drinking Game at Panjikent

Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity

Talking to Workers: From Khomeini to Ahmadinejad, how the Islamic Republic’s Discourse on Labor Changed through May Day Speeches (1979‒2009)

Iran: A Modern History

Reading In, Looking Out: Hermeneutics by Implication in an Early Fifteenth-Century Anthology

Another Season, A Bilingual Edition with Critical Introduction, Annotations and Archival Material

Operation Countenance: The 1941 Invasion of Iran and the Clash of Propaganda Narratives

DPg: Ahuramazdā and the Creation of Water, with a New Text Edition

The Social and Literary Context of German Translations of Saʿdi’s Golestān

Saʿdi-ye Shirāzi and Bono Giamboni in Dialogue: A Comparative Approach to Temperance

Colophons and Marginal Notes of the Avestan Manuscripts of the Pouladi’s Collection in Yazd

A Zoroastrian Dispute in the Caliph’s Court: The Gizistag Abāliš in its Early Islamic Context

The Nature of Legitimacy: Representations of the Natural World in Iskandar Beg Munshi’s Tārīkh-e ʿĀlam-ārā-ye ʿAbbāsī

The Jewish Communities of Central Asia in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

The Signing of the Sino-Iranian Treaty of 1920

The “Metal Army” of Alexander in the War against the Indian King Porus in Three Persian Alexander Books (Tenth‒Fourteenth Centuries)

Safavid Iran and the “Turkish Question” or How to Avoid a War on Multiple Fronts

Persian Monshi, Persian Jones: English Translations of Saʿdi’s Golestān from the Late Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Centuries

Eqtesād-e Siyāsi-ye Sanduq-hā-ye Qarz al-Hasaneh va Muʾasessāt-e Eʿtebāri: Soqut-e Yek Ideolozhi [The political economy of interest-free funds and credit institutions: the fall of an ideology]

Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran: Najm al-Dīn al-Nayīizī and His Writings

Through the Backdoor: An Overview of the English East India Company’s Rise and Fall in Safavid Iran, 1616–40

Kush-e Pildandān, the Anti-Hero: Polemics of Power in Late Antique Iran

Commercial, Confessional, and Military Encounters in the Ottoman–Iranian Borderlands in the Early Modern Period