A Survey of Persian Handicraft by Jay Gluck, Sumi Gluck 0 Reviews In 1926, Arthur Upham Pope, in commencing a decade of photographing for the monumental A Survey of Persian Art, recorded traditional craftsmen at work on mosaic tiles and tribal carpers. During 1964 while in Isfahan with his former students Jay Gluck, Pope... $125.00
Dance in the Persianate WorldHistory, Aesthetics, Performance by Anthony Shay 0 Reviews Dance in the Persianate World is a rich collected volume featuring the most up-to-date writings that addresses multiple issues surrounding dance, its performance and its reception throughout the Persianate world and constitutes a sequel to Anthony... $45.00
Disease, Dying, Death by M. R. Ghanoonparvar 0 Reviews The topic of this book revolves around the four words that appear in its title, namely disease, dying, death, and trauma. Each chapter explores not only the above mentioned themes, but also questions of identity, loss of homeland, unrequited love and broken... $20.00
Etymology of Caviar by Guive Mirfendereski 1 Reviews The word-origin of the term caviar has been a subject of Western scholarly curiosity as late as the mid-18th century. The lexical evidence of the term’s existence as hāvyār and khāviār in the Ottoman Turkish language dates back to... $35.00
From the Moon to the WellTranslated from the Persian by M. R. Ghanoonparvar by Hossein Atashparvar 0 Reviews While in classical Persian literature one finds poems in praise of cities, in modern Persian literature, and specifically modern Persian fiction, we find merely a few cities in Iran that are indirectly and implicitly portrayed in novels and short stories, and... $15.00
Hedayat on Religion by Paul Sprachman, M. R. Ghanoonparvar 0 Reviews The most internationally recognized Persian fiction writer in the 20th century, Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951), was known as a secular intellectual whose controversial views on religion gained him both distractors and supporters in Iran, both during his life and... $45.00
Iranians in Achaemenid Babylonia by M.A. Dandamayev 0 Reviews 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,... $35.00
Jujube BlossomsTranslated from the Persian by M. R. Ghanoonparvar by Reza Julai 0 Reviews 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... $35.00
Kurdish WomenThrough History by Shahrzad Mojab 0 Reviews Kurdish Women Through History, Culture, and Resistance is a study of the lives and struggles of Kurdish women in the past while also envisioning the social, cultural, and sexual transformation of gender relations for a future that is upon us. An... $45.00
NeyrangestanTranslated from the Persian with Annotations by M. R. Ghanoonparvar by Sadeq Hedayat (1903- 1951) 0 Reviews 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... $35.00