This book adopts a thematic and comparative approach to shed light on the antagonism of these two nations. Its first part deals with the Armenian and Azerbaijani self-representation of their nations’ identity and historical territory. This is the core...

Based on a meticulous study of the texts—mostly cuneiform, legal and economic documents— mentioning Iranians in Achaemenid Babylonia (539-330 B.C.), Dr. Dandamayev has reconstructed the social, economic, and administrative life of the Persians,...

James Lyman Merrick was born into a farming family in western Massachusetts in 1803. In his youth, while completing a school project, he developed an enduring love for Persia that became a guiding light for his entire life. As a committed Christian of a...

Jujube Blossoms is a historical novel about a tumultuous period in Persian history during the Persian Constitutional Revolution that began in 1905 and ended in 1911. Even though the ruling monarch, Mozaffareddin Shah Qajar, signed the declaration for a...

This book is a translation of Sadeq Hedayat’s Neyrangestan, a collection of Persian beliefs and customs, including Persian tales, legends, myths, and proverbs, among other issues. A major interest of Hedayat was to collect and study Iranian folklore...

Prior to being converted to Islam in the second half of the seventh century, Zoroastrian Iran (Persia) had developed a sophisticated legal system under Sasanian rule (226-651 C.E.). It possessed, however, no formal legal code, but, rather, collections of...

Sistan, a land now on the borders of Afghanistan and Iran, was ruled in the 9th and 10th centuries by the Saffarids, a dynasty of freebooters of lowly origin who carved out a kingdom from eastern Iranian lands that the declining Abbasid caliphate could no...

The Syrian Arab Spring Uprising of 2011 offered Kurdish political parties a unique opportunity to address the ongoing government repression of their people through political and diplomatic channels. However, Turkey’s covert support for Syrian Arab...