Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran (Sternfeld Lior B.)(Paperback)

Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran (Sternfeld Lior B.)(Paperback)

Iran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, outside of Israel. At its peak in the twentieth century, the population numbered around 100,000; today about 25,000 Jews live in Iran. Between Iran and Zion offers the first history of this vibrant community over the course of the

Erin and Iran: Cultural Encounters Between the Irish and the Iranians (Chehabi H. E.)(Paperback)

In Erin and Iran, ten essays by North American and European scholars discuss parallel themes in and interactions between Irish and Iranian cultures. In the first section three essays explore common elements in pre-Christian Irish and pre-Islamic Iranian mythologies, common elements that have often

Iran: A Modern History (Amanat Abbas)(Paperback)

A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009 This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that

House of Glass - The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family (Freeman Hadley)(Paperback / softback)

Iran (Oleynik Maria)(Paperback)

This new, sixth edition of Bradt's Iran continues to provide the most detailed background, history and cultural information available when visiting this 'Jewel of Central Asia'. Thoroughly reviewed to provide all the latest information, including security and language, this new edition includes

Temporary Bride - A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran (Klinec Jennifer)(Paperback / softback)

Moving, fascinating and full of the sights, smells and tastes of Iran,this is a heart-warming tale of love against the

Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi'ite Iran (Corbin Henry)(Paperback)

An analysis of interrelated themes in Iranian religion, including the angelology of Mazdaism and Islamic Shi'ite concepts of spirit-body

Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran (Pourshariati Parvaneh)(Paperback)

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation It proposes a convincing contemporary answer answer to an ages-old mystery and conundrum: why, in the seventh century CE, did the seemingly powerful and secure Sasanian empire of Persia succumb so quickly and disastrously to the

Machineries of Oil: An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran (Shafiee Katayoun)(Pevná vazba)

The emergence of the international oil corporation as a political actor in the twentieth century, seen in BP's infrastructure and information arrangements in Iran.In the early twentieth century, international oil corporations emerged as a new kind of political actor. The development of the world

Showdown with Iran: Nuclear Iran and the Future of Israel, the Middle East, and the United States in Bible Prophecy (Hitchcock Mark)(Paperback)

The Threat of War with Iran Grows Day by DayBible prophecy expert Mark Hitchcock, PhD, is noticing a dangerous trend: the nation of Iran remains in the newspaper headlines for all the wrong reasons. In Showdown with Iran, he reveals why this rogue nation is so dangerous and how that connects to

Iran Resurgent: The Rise and Rise of the Shia State (Abedin Mahan)(Paperback)

Iran has emerged from decades of isolation and struggle to become a leading, if not the pre-eminent, regional power. Iran projects its influence throughout the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. Moreover, Iranian diplomacy is active on the world stage, with long-term projects in Africa and

Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Benjamin Medea)(Paperback)

Medea Benjamin is the author of the insightful and successful Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection. This book is perhaps the first non-academic look at the history of US and Iranian relations--giving a complex issue an accessible entry point for a general

An Analysis of Hamid Dabashi's Iran: A People Interrupted (Gibson Bryan)(Paperback)

Hamid Dabashi's 2007 Iran: A People Interrupted is simultaneously subtle, passionate, polarizing and polemical. A concise account of Iranian history from the early 19th-century onward, Dabashi's book uses his incisive analytical skills as a basis for creating a persuasive argument against the views

Iran: A Very Short Introduction (Ansari Ali)(Paperback)

Iran has rarely been out of the headlines. Yet media interest and extensive coverage has tended to hinder rather than help our understanding of Iran as an idea, an identity, and a people, leading to a superficial understanding of what is a complex and nuanced political culture and civilization

Copper, Brass and Bronze of Iran: From the Late 14th to the Mid-18th Century in the Hermitage Collection (Ivanov Anatoli)(Pevná vazba)

In Western Europe the Golden Age of Islamic metalwork in Iran was (and is) generally considered to be the earlier period, and later metalwork was collected almost by accident and has been correspondingly little studied and poorly published, though in recent decades the imbalance has been somewhat

Defending Iran: From Revolutionary Guards to Ballistic Missiles (Bahgat Gawdat)(Paperback)

Since the 1979 revolution, the ruling establishment of Iran has developed and articulated a defense strategy reflective of the country's Iran-Iraq war experience and its international isolation. Its asymmetrical warfare doctrine, use of irregular forces in military campaigns, deployment of

Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (Najmabadi Afsaneh)(Paperback)

Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the

The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (Arrighi Giovanni)(Paperback)

The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of 'long centuries,' each of which produced a new world power that secured control over an expanding world-economic

The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals (Dale Stephen Frederic)(Paperback)

Between 1453 and 1526 Muslims founded three major states in the Mediterranean, Iran and South Asia: respectively the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. By the early seventeenth century their descendants controlled territories that encompassed much of the Muslim world, stretching from the Balkans

Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (Najmabadi Afsaneh)(Paperback)

Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi

Relational Judaism: Using the Power of Relationships to Transform the Jewish Community (Wolfson Ron)(Paperback)

How to transform the model of twentieth-century Jewish institutions into twenty-first-century relational communities offering meaning and purpose, belonging and blessing.What really matters is that we care about the people we seek to engage. When we genuinely care about people, we will not only

The Battle of the Ayatollahs in Iran: The United States, Foreign Policy, and Political Rivalry Since 1979 (Vatanka Alex)(Paperback)

The foreign policy agenda and behavior of the Islamic Republic of Iran is a critical challenge for the world. But where do the principal Iranian regime actors come from in terms of political background, experiences and interests? Which types of ambitions or policy conflicts have dominated and

Iran: Empire of the Mind - A History from Zoroaster to the Present Day (Axworthy Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Iran often appears in the media as a hostile and difficult country. From the time of the prophet Zoroaster, to the powerful ancient Persian Empires, to the revolution of 1979, the hostage crisis and president Mahmud Ahmadinejad - a controversial figure within as well as outside the country - this

Iran: A Social and Political History Since the Qajars (Richard Yann)(Paperback)

From encounters with Western powers in the nineteenth century through to a Constitutional Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century, and from the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mosaddeq in the 1950s to the current Islamic Republic, Iran's history has rarely been