Kategoria BISAC: History >> Middle East - Iran

• A succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day.
• Traces events from the rise of the Persian empire, through competition with Rome and conquest by the Arabs, through to the re-establishment of a Persian state in the sixteenth century, and finally the Islamic Revoltuion on 1979 and the establishment of the current Islamic Republic.
• Uses the most recent scholarship to examine Iran's political, social...

• A succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day.
• Traces events from the rise of the Persian empire, through competition with Rome and conquest by the Arabs, through to the re-establishment of a Persian state in the sixteenth century, and finally the Islamic Revoltuion on 1979 and the establishment of the current Islamic Republic.
• Uses the most recent scholarship to examine Iran's political, social...

This impressive work of scholarship brings together anthropology, religion, popular culture, and history in its focus on Bakhtiari lion tombstones that have remained largely unknown and hence little studied. Although lions have long figured in Iranian history, art and myth as symbols of rulership, power, religious leadership or as steadfast guardians, art historians have tended to concentrate their attentions on court traditions and the role of lions in popular culture, especially in religion, has remained little considered until this book. Funerary stone lions are to be found throughout...

While recent books have explored Arab and Turkish nationalism, the nuances of Iran have received scant book-length study—until now. Capturing the significant changes in approach that have shaped this specialization, "Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity" shares innovative research and charts new areas of analysis from an array of scholars in the field.

Delving into a wide range of theoretical and conceptual perspectives, the essays—all previously unpublished—encompass social history, literary theory, postcolonial studies, and comparative analysis to address...

Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran investigates
the ways in which Armenian minorities in Iran encountered Iranian nationalism
and participated in its development over the course of the twentieth
century. Based primarily on oral interviews, archival documents, personal
memoirs, memorabilia, and photographs, the book examines the lives of a
group of Armenian-Iranians a truck driver, an army officer, a parliamentary
representative, a civil servant, and a scout leader and explores the
personal conflicts and paradoxes attendant upon their...

In 1929 Adelaide Kibbe was a 27-year-old missionary physician who set out from New York, on the steamer SS American Banker, headed for Iran. Her route to Persia took her through England, Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland and Egypt. It would be 28 years before she returned home, and during the ensuing decades she would see huge changes in her adopted country: the development of modern roads, railway and air transport, the spread of telephones and radio, and modern schools in the cities (bringing literacy to girls as well as boys), and the growth of the modern University of Tehran. Through...