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Papers

(The median citation count of Iranian Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“Iranian Conditions: Health Problems and Medical Practices in the Words of the Staff of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1900–1950”	12
Khalil Maleki: The Human Face of Iranian Socialism, Homa Katouzian, London: Oneworld Publications (Radical Histories of the Middle East), 2018, ISBN 978-1-7860-7293-1 (hbk), 320 pp.	7
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists. Wazhmah Osman, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2020	5
Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century. Matthew K. Shannon (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024). Pp. 330. Hardcover $54.95. ISBN 9781501775949	3
The Origins of the Arab-Iranian Conflict: Nationalism and Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars. Chelsi Mueller (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 274 pp.	3
The Prince and the Sufi: The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies, Dalia Yasharpour (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021). 317 pp. € 146.59. ISBN: 978-90-04-44274-0.	3
Under the Waves: The Many Lives of Moniru Ravanipur's The Drowned	2
Afghanistan's Lost Futures - Afghan Crucible, The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan. Elisabeth Leake (Oxford University Press, 2022). i-xxii, 343 pages, maps. ISBN: 978-0-19-884601-	2
The Hero of “the Noble Afshar People”: Reconsidering Nader Shah's Claims to Lineage and Legitimacy	2
IRN volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Ali Gholipour, Parvaresh-e zogh-e āmme dar asr-e pahlavi: tarbiyat-e zibashenakhti-ye mellat dar siyasatgozari-ye farhangi-ye dolat [Cultivating the Public Taste in the Pahlavi Era: Aesthetic Upbringi	2
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The Metaphorical Use of Body Parts in Forming Counting expressions: Evidence from Tāti Language Group	2
The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India. Alexander Jabbari (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023). 260 pp. ISBN 9781009320863	2
Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran. Hussein Banai (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 174 pp. Hardcover $99.99. ISBN 9781108495592	2
“I'd rather be married to someone I can control”: Female Javānmardī in Gulbadan Begum's Humayunnamah as a Mirror for Princesses	2
Not By Archives Alone: The “Revolution” in Soviet Central Asian Literary Studies	2
Kian Tajbakhsh, Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). x + 303 pp. (GBP)75. ISBN 9781009160919.	2
Professor Daniel Tsadik: Obituary	2
Between Rebellion and Obedience: The Making of Docile Revolutionary Children in Post-Revolutionary Iran’s Keyhān-e Bachcheh-hā	2
The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry: Politics of Poetic Experimentation. Farshad Sonboldel (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). 232 pages. $120. ISBN: 9788765103609	2
The Role of the Clergy in the Establishment and Consolidation of Pahlavi I (1925–1941)	2
Monolingualism in Iran: The Politics of Writing in Azeri Turkish	1
Representation of Aphrodite and Eros on Sasanian Clay Bullae: Evidence from the Fire Temple of Ādur Gušnasp at Takht-e Solaymān	1
Performative Diplomacy: Iran–Republic of China Relations, 1920–1949	1

“The Shah's House Became the People's House”: Narrating Iran's Modern History at the Pahlavi Dynasty Museum	1
Marche Triomphale: A Forgotten Musical Tract in Qajar-European Encounters	1
Political Convergence, Surpluses of Activism, and Genealogy: Examining Iran's Quasi-Revolutionary Situation	1
Kermanshah City and Province, Willem Floor, Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2018, ISBN 978-949445-00-8 (hbk), 591 pp., 60 illus.	1
Iranian Women & Gender in the Iran-Iraq War, by Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 457 pages.	1
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present. John Ghazvinian (London: Oneworld, 2020). Pp 667, including notes and index. £35.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781786079473	1
The Security-Development Nexus and the Jina Mahsa Amini Protests in Iran's Border Provinces	1
What is at Stake in the Frame Story? A Timurid Reshaping of the Romance of Bahrām Gūr	1
Canonization and sacred text in the Yārsān religion	1
A Capitalist Economy without Robust Capitalist Production	1
Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi: Building an Ark, Prashant Keshavmurthy, New York: Routledge (Iranian Studies, 33), 2016, ISBN 9780367876449 (hbk), 178 pp.	1
Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation, Robert D. Crews, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-6742-8609-2 (hbk), 400 pp.	1
Translator as Historical Re-Narrator: The Case of the Persian Translation of Clements Markham's History of Persia	1
Telling a Different Story: Redeployment of the Narrative Alexander Tradition in a Medieval PersianDāstān	1
The Frontier Pushes Back: From Local Languages to Imperial Substrate(s) in Scribal Practices in 8th-century Central Asia	1
The Danish Orientalist Arthur Christensen's Visit to Iran in 1929 and His Meeting with the Iranian Intelligentsia	1
Fawāka al-Basātin: Montakhabāti Falsafi, Eʿteqādi, Revāʾi dar Avākher-e Qājāriyeh, asar-e Hājj Mirzā Mohammad Tehrāni [Fruits of Gardens by Hājj Mirzā Mohammad Tehrāni: A Philosophical Miscellany in A	1
Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary, Rajeev Kinra, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015, ISBN 9780520286467 (pbk)	1
The Persian Novel: Ideology, Fiction, and Form in the Periphery, Omid Azadibougar, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014, ISBN 978-90-420-3884-4 (pbk), 241 pp.	1
The Bavadi and Their Bakhtiari Dialect	1
IRN volume 56 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
Diachronic Development of the K-suffixes: Evidence from Classical New Persian, Contemporary Written Persian, and Contemporary Spoken Persian	1
With the Caravan of Isidore of Charax on the Road of Upper Media: Reconstruction of the Ancient Routes and Some Old Toponyms in the Kangavar-Asadabad Plain, Based on Historical Texts and Archaeologica	1
Naderid Iran's Statehood, Territoriality, Status, and Diplomatic Capacity on Ottoman Scale: 1723-1748	1
Kurdish Bildungsroman and Its Historical and Social Concerns: The Case of Sayyed Qadir Hedayati	1
The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan. Kathryn Babayan (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 260. $65.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781503613386	1
IRN volume 55 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Editor's Note	1
India in the Persian World of Letters: Ḳhān-i Ārzū among the Eighteenth-Century Philologists. Arthur Dudney (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022). 336 pp. ISBN 9780192857415	1
“Islam Says We Are All Equal”: The Islamic Turn in Soviet Propaganda in Iran, 1921–25	1
Iran Protests and Patterns of State Repression	0
IRN volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
The Inception of Literary Criticism in Early Modern Pashto Writings	0
Transcendence between Expression and Secrecy: A Critical Cognitive Perspective on the Metaphorical Discourse of Yārsān Religion	0
Domy na piasku. Polacy w Iranie (1942–1945). Katarzyna Rodacka (Krakow: Znak, 2025). 306 pp. Hardcover 64.99 zł. ISBN: 9788324064434	0
ReFocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad. Maryam Ghorbankarimi (ed.) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). ISBN 978-1474477635 (eBook), 265 pp.	0
The Future of Iran's Past: Nizam al-Mulk Remembered, Neguin Yavari, London: Hurst & Company, 2018, ISBN 978-1-84904-820-0 (hbk), 275 pp.	0
Women and the Islamic Republic: How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State. Shirin Saeidi (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). 220 pp. Hardcover $75. ISBN: 1316515761	0
Intertextuality and Subversion: Nezāmi in Modern Persian Literature	0
The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran. Beeta Baghoolizadeh (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024). 230 pages, 32 illustrations. $26.95 paper. ISBN 9781478030249	0
IRN volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
Editor's Note	0
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The Reluctant Warrior: Semiotic Notes on the Story of Zāl in theShāhnāmeh	0
Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran. Lior Sternfeld (California: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 208. $24.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781503613638	0
The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India. Supriya Gandhi (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020). Pp. 338. $32.00 hardcover. ISBN 9780674987296	0
IRN volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
IRN volume 56 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
The Cultural Impact of the Persian Language in and around Bidlis	0
Gholam-Hosayn Zargarinezhad, Andisheh va Siyasat dar Iran-e Qajar [Thought and Politics in Qajar Iran], 2 vols (Tehran: Negarestan-e Andisheh, 1398 Sh./2019–20).	0

Fārsīgraphy in Zoroastrian Middle Persian Manuscripts	0
The Iran-Iraq War, Pierre Razoux, Nicholas Elliott (trans.), Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-6740-8863-4 (hbk), 688 pp.	0
“Nowhere but Everywhere”: The Principle of Legality and the Complexities of Judicial Discretion in Iran	0
From Ethnic Nationalism to Cosmopolitan Mysticism: The Life and Works of Hossein Kazemzadeh Iranshahr (1884–1962)	0
Back to the Motherland? Parsi Gujarati Travelogues of Iran in the Qajar-Pahlavi Interregnum, 1921–1925	0
Gurughli: The Tajik Variety of the Epic of Köroğlu	0
Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond G. J. Breyley and Sasan Fatemi. London: Routledge, 2016. 202 pp., ISBN: 9780815358084 pbk, 9780415575126 hbk	0
Editor's Note	0
English Loanwords in Persian	0
Tribes and Smugglers in Iran's Eastern Borderlands, 1921–41	0
IRN volume 55 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
The Sultan's Life as a Tragedy? Zeyā al-Din Barani, Moʿezz al-Din Keyqobād, and the Performance ofTārikh	0
Gender and Singing in Pahlavi Soundscape: Modern Feminine Culture and Masculine Politics in the Age of Popular Culture, Vision, and Rumors; A Discussion of Sensory History in Modern Iran	0
Quiet Strength: Kurdish Women Kolbars and the Feminization of Poverty	0
Soft Epiphanies: The Multilayered Narratives in Abbas Kiarostami's Film Close-Up (1990)	0
Obituary – ERRATUM	0
Women Reclaiming Their Voices for Life and Freedom: Music and the 2022 Uprising in Iran	0
My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, Katherine Whitney and Leila Emery (eds.), Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1-4773-2027-3 (hbk), 296 pp.	0
A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East. Richard Foltz (London: I. B. Tauris, 2019). Pp. 256. $35.95 paper. ISBN: 9781784539559	0
Editor’s Note	0
Saljuq Architecture in Iran: The Friday Mosque of Urmiya	0
Īhām, or the Technique of Double Meaning in Literature: Its Theory and Practice in the Twelfth Century	0
Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Poetry, Performance, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Iran. Dominic Parviz Brookshaw (London: I. B. Tauris, 2019). Pp. 392. $40.95 paper. ISBN: 978-0755638345	0
Khomeini Kitsch: Material Cultures of the Iran Hostage Crisis	0
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700–1900. Kevin L. Schwartz (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Pp. 233. $100.00 hardcover. ISBN 9781474450843	0
Ilkhanid Wood Carvings in the Mountain Villages between Kashan and Natanz	0
Ottoman Policies Regarding Shah Ismāʿīl II as Seen through Ottoman Documents	0
Uncertain Cures: The Medical Marketplace in Pahlavi Iran	0
Retranslation in Mughal South Asia: The Impressive Failure of a Persian Panchatantra	0
Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present, Jonathan L. Lee, London: Reaktion Books, 2018, ISBN 978-1-78914-010-1 (hbk), 780 pp.	0
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The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London, Nile Green, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-6911-6832-6 (hbk), xvi + 416 pp.	0
The Seljuqs and their Successors: Art, Culture and History, edited by Sheila R. Canby, Deniz Beyazit and Martina Rugiadi, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1-4744-5034-8, xviii+310	0
Aria Fani, Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism, Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024). Pp. 264. $55.00 c	0
Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History, Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-108-41851-5 (hbk), xv + 303 pp.	0
Ḥakīm Zajjājī’s Humāyūn-nāmah: An Eye-Witness Account of Early Mongol Rule in Tabriz (1220–1258)	0
The Isfahan Anthology Project	0
Review of Maziar Behrooz - Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia	0
“Don't Let the Boats Pass!” Neo-Elamite Grain Procurement in Times of Famine and Drought	0
Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs: State and Identity in Post-Mongol Central Eurasia, Joo-Yup Lee (Studies in Persian Cultural History 8), Leiden: Brill, 2016,	0
Distinction and Survival: Zoroastrians, Religious Nationalism, and Cultural Ownership in Shiʿi Iran	0
Editor's Note	0
Editor's Note	0
Russian Officialdom and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1905–1911	0
Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars. Alla Ivanchikova (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2019). 259 pp. ISBN 9781557538468	0
Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry, Levi Thompson, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 231 pages. £75.00. ISBN: 978-1-009-16447-4	0
Observing Iran from Baku: Iranian Studies in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan	0
“A Priest does not consider the toppling of the Shah as an option” The KGB and the revolution in Iran	0
The Ottoman Empire and the Modern Hajj: Converging Histories from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean	0
Ḥikāyat-i Sayyid Nāṣir-i Khusraw: Analyses of a subaltern Nizari Ismaili Text Written before the Declaration of the Qiyāmat-i buzurg (the Great Resurrection) in 559/1164	0
Materiality of Traumatic Experience and the Limits of Representation in Hassan Bani Ameri's Gonjeshkha Behesht ra Mifahmand (Sparrows Understand Heaven)	0
The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia. Arash Khazeni (Oakland, CA: California University Press, 2020). Pp. 264. $85.00 (Hardcover), $29.95 (Paperback) ISBN: 9780520289	0
Persian Studies in India and the Colonial Universities, 1857–1947	0
From Quasi-Vegetarians to Quasi-Carnivores: The Changing Diet of Iranians	0
Love at a Crux – The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages. Cameron Cross (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2023). 370 pages. ISBN 978-1-4875-4727-1.	0
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Disciplining Persian Literature in Twentieth-Century Afghanistan	0
Taqi Erāni, Bizhan Jazani, and a Marxian Framework for the Critique of Religion in Twentieth Century Iranian Political Thought	0
From Worker-Peasant to Reluctant Revolutionary Industrial Worker in the Establishment of Iran's Copper Industry: The Sarcheshmeh Copper Mine, 1960s–1970s	0
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Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East. Arang Keshavarzian (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024). 324 pp. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 9781503638877	0
The Gharib Shah Rebellion of 1629	0
Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia. James Pickett (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020). Pp. 301. $54.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9781501750243	0
Pictorial Modernity and the Armenian Women of Iran	0
Soviet Persian Anthologies: Transnational, Multinational, International	0
Tammarītu, “king of Ḫidalu,” Tammarītu, “king of Elam”	0
IRN volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
“Rich Fields in Persia”: Parsi Capital and the Origins of Economic Development in Pahlavi Iran, 1925–1941	0
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier, Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8047-7411-6 (pbk	0
Goštāsb, Farzāne. Āẕar Kayvān: zendegināme, ās̱ār-o ʿaqāyed [Āẕar Kayvān: An Account of His Life, Writings and Beliefs]. Pažuhešgāh-e ʿolūm-e ensānī-o moṭāleʿāt-e farhangī, 1400 š [2021]	0
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare. Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024). 197 pp. Paperback $24. IS	0
Afterword to Persianate Pasts, National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century	0
Yazd and its Zoroastrians	0
Capitalist Lineages of Early Modern Iran	0
Hezb-e Tudeh-ye Iran and Its Struggle Against the Challenges Posed Against It by the British, 1942–1946: An Analysis Based on Soviet Documents	0
Kurdish Politics in Iran: Crossborder Interactions and Mobilisation since 1947. Allan Hassaniyan (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 236. Hardcover $110. ISBN 9781316516430	0
Farvi: An Iranian Language in Kavir Desert	0
Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin before Nationalism. Mana Kia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 336. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 9781503611955	0
The Collapse of the Male Gaze in the Cinema of Bahram Beyzaie: The Crow and Maybe Some Other Time	0
Early Persian Verse Romances inMutaqārib: Form, Structure, Contents	0

Re-considering Environmental Activism in Iran: Materiality and Social Histories of Nature	0
The Armenian Community and Changing Iranian Perceptions of Minority	0
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity, Manata Hashemi, New York: New York University Press, 2020, ISBN 9781479876334 (hbk), 256 pp.	0
Persian Historiography Across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, Sholeh Quinn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108842211 (hbk), 250 pp.	0
To Tell Anew: Fresh Perspectives on Persian Narrative	0
Scholarly Circles and the Transmission of Knowledge: Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (d. 1030/1621) and His Mobile Scholarly Circle in Safavid Iran	0
Displaying Modern Life: Experiencing the Promises, Desires, and Perils of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s Tehran through Window-Shopping in Crossroad of Events (1955), Mr. Naive (1971), and Under the Skin of	0
The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c. 1760–c. 1870, S. R. O. Thomas OP Flynn, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017, ISBN 978-90-04-16399-7 (hbk), xxvii + 1113 pp.	0
The One Thousand and First Night: A Play by Bahram Beyzaie Translated and Critical Analysis by Saeed Talajooy (San Francisco, USA: Bisheh Publishing, 2023). 162 pp. Paperback, $20. ISBN 9781735568676	0
The Market in Poetry in the Persian World. Shahzad Bashir (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 88 pp. $20.00 paper. ISBN 9781108948647	0
Editor’s Note	0
Occult Ecumenism: Maḥmūd Dihdār Shīrāzī's Unveiling Secrets as Exemplar of Timurid-Safavid Sunni-Shiʿi Science	0
Drifting toward Revolution: Kurt Scharf and the dah shab in Tehran	0
World Literature and Hedayat's Poetics of Modernity. Omid Azadibougar (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Pp. 203. $89.99 hardcover, paper; $69.99 e-book. ISBN: 978-981-15-1690-0.	0
Judeo-Hamadani: The Language of Jews in Hamadan and Its Origins	0
Kindred Voices: A Literary History of Medieval Anatolia. Michael Pifer (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021). Pp. 320. $45.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780300250398	0
The Formation of Modern Kurdish Society in Iran: Modernity, Modernization and Social Change, 1921–1979. Maruf Cabi (London: I. B. Tauris, 2023). 217 pp. Hardcover $100. ISBN 9780755645653	0
The Unfinished History of the Iran–Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Annie Tracy Samuel (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). xvii + 302 pp. $99.99. ISBN 978110	0
The School Principal and the Children: Patriarchy and Changing Childhoods in Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad's Novella	0
Book review for Sinem Arcak Casale’s Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639 (University of Chicago Press, 2023)	0
Editor's Note	0
Familial Undercurrents: Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran. Afsaneh Najmbadi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022). pp. 162. $25.95	0
The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran. Ali Mirsepassi (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). 256 pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN 9781399511421	0
Sufis and Their Opponents in the Persianate World, Reza Tabandeh and Leonard Lewisohn (eds.), Irvine, CA: UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2020, ISBN 978-1-949743-20-3 (hbk), 632 pp.	0
Pictorial Modernity and the Armenian Women of Iran – CORRIGENDUM	0
Ismāʿīl al-Qasṛī, Kubrawiyya, and Sufi Genealogies: “Deep-Dark Transmissions” in Medieval Iran	0
Shadow Performance in Iran	0
Bert G. Fragner	0
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian, Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (ed.), London and New York: Routledge, 2020, ISBN 9781138333055 (hbk), 688 pp.	0
Feeding Iran: Shi'i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic. Rose Wellman (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021). Pp. 262. $34.95. ISBN 9780520376878	0
John Renard. Rumi: A Life in Pictures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.	0
The Afghan Bachah and its Discontents: An Introductory History	0
Public Interest (Maslahat) in Shiʿi Theocracy: Implications for Legal and Political Decision-Making	0
Power and Philanthropy: The Imperial Dimensions of Parsi Amelioration of the Iranian Zoroastrians	0
The Ancient Iranian Perception of Cyrus the Great	0
The Poet Nefʿī, Fresh Persian Verse, and Ottoman Freshness	0
J. T. P. de Bruijn (1931–2023) The bird of Time completes its round	0
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Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran. Blake Atwood (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021). 252 pp. ISBN 9780262542845	0
Traveling through an Ocean of Wonders: Muḥammad RabīʿsSafīna-yi Sulaymānīand Southeast and East Asian Geography	0
Remembering Revolution	0
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway, Mikiya Koyagi, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781503613133 (hbk), 296 pages.	0
Slavery and Empire in Central Asia, Jeff Eden, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-108-47051-3 (hbk), 227 pp.	0
Linguistic Change and the Future of Metrical Persian Poetry	0
Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic, Narges Bajoghli, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-5036-1029-3 (pbk), 176 pp.	0
Review Essay	0
“What Sāz Did We Go to War with?” Musical Representation and the Possibility of a Persian Musical Modernity	0
Writing Capitalism into Iran through the International	0
Persian Royal–Judaean Elite Engagements in the Teispid and Achaemenid Empire: The King's Acolytes, Jason M. Silverman (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 690), London: Bloomsbury (Impr	0
Sufism vs. Monism in ʿAzīz-i Nasafī's Works	0
Creating the Modern Iranian Policeman: 1911–1935	0
Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World. Laetitia Nanquette (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp. 312. $105.00 hardcover. ISBN 97	0
Kamran Talattof. Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature: Demystifying the Mystic, Palgrave MacMillan, Switzerland, 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-97989-8, 284 pp.	0
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Onomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran. Houchang E. Chehabi (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020). Pp. 109. $17.95. ISBN 9780674248199.	0
The Foreign Trade of Tabriz: 1800-1900	0
From Iran to the Netherlands, and everywhere in between	0
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The “Kāmūsī Corpus”: A Case Study in Manuscript Production and Knowledge Transmission in Ilkhanid Iran	0
Hair and Hat Ritual Shaming Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Iran	0
Editor's Note	0
Artificial Intelligence in Iran: National Narratives and Material Realities	0
Centuries beyond Time (Qarn-hā-ye bi-Zamān): Epistemological Analysis of ʿAttār's Manteq al-Tayr. Mehdi Mohabbati (Tehran: Hermes, 2020). Pp. 951. ISBN 9786004562317	0
Iranian Identity and National Oppression: Crafting the Modern Iranian Nation–State	0
From Persianate Cosmopolis to Persianate Modernity: Translating from Urdu to Persian in Twentieth-Century Iran and Afghanistan	0
Sites of Disremembering: Narrative Tactics of Remembering the Past in Qasr and Heshmatieh Neighborhoods of Tehran	0
Women Write Iran: Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora. Nima Naghibi (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Pp. 211 (paperback). ISBN 978-0816683840	0
Soundwaves of Dissent: Resistance Through Persianate Cultural Production in Afghanistan	0
A Firm Policy Decision: Infrastructural Form and Pahlavi Developmentalism at the Ahvāz Pipe Mill	0
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s New Population Policy and Recent Changes in Fertility	0
From Dengbêj to Modern Writer: Heritagization of the Kurdish Oral Tradition and Revitalization of the Kurdish Language in the Works of Mehmed Uzun and Mehmet Dicle	0
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The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad. Hamid Dabashi (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), 334 pp.	0
Special Issue: Parsis and Iranians in the Modern Period	0
Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance. Michelle Langford (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Pp. xiv, 278 (hardcover). ISBN 9781780762982	0
Andre Godard and Maxime Siroux: Disentangling the Narrative of French Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Iran	0
From ritual to performance: Ta'zieh in Iran today	0
The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation. Sohrab Sepehri. Translated by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Prashant Keshavmurthy (Leiden: Brill, 2022). 419 pp. ISBN 9789004472372	0
TheQalandarKing: Early Development of theQalandariyyātand Saljuq Conceptions of Kingship in Amir Moʿezzi's Panegyric for Sharafshāh Jaʿfari	0
IRN volume 55 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Publisher's Note	0
dastanandtuwān, Adjectives or Nouns? A Discussion about Their Grammatical Category and Meaning in Middle Persian	0
The Bābī-Bahā’ī Revolution in Iran – CORRIGENDUM	0
Art of Protest in Five Acts	0
Bahram Beyzaie: A Visionary in Focus—A Review of Saeed Talajooy’s Study - Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre: Paradigms of Being and Belonging (1959–1979). Volume 1. Saeed Talajooy	0
Tohfeye Ziyarat (Souvenir of Pilgrimage): Religious Mobility and Public Health in Late Qajar Iran, c. 1890–1904	0
Discourses of Writing in Negāresh Textbooks: The Neglect of Social Practice and Sociopolitical Discourses in the Pedagogy of Persian Writing	0
The Postal System in Safavid, Afsharid, and Zand Iran	0
Writing in Turbulent Times. Introduction to the Roundtable on the 2022–23 Iranian Protests	0
Persianate Pasts; National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century	0
The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia, Robert Haug, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2019, The Early and Medieval Islamic World, ISBN 978-1-78	0
Letting Live in Revolutionary Iran	0
Meysam Safarchi, Tejārisāzi va masrafgarāyi: tahavvol-e fazā va farhang-e shahri dar Tehran [Commercialization and Consumerism: Transformation of Urban Space and Culture in Tehran] (Tehran, Ira	0
As Seen from Bombay: An Iranian Zoroastrian Photo Album from the 1930s	0
Recent Titles in Iranian Studies	0