Affectionately known as Moh among colleagues and friends, Mohammad Reza Ghanoonpoarvar has been a prominent figure in the field of Persian language and literature for the past thirty years. He is credited with pioneering work in the interpretation and...

This collection of essays is dedicated to Dr. Amin Banani, Professor Emeritus of Persian Literature and History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The essays collected in this book deal, in various forms, with the intrinsic relationship...

As his students attest, every session in Professor Peter J. Chelkowski's classes is a memorable event. This has consistently been the case throughout his long, distinguished career. He is often described by his students as a superb teacher who has mastery...

This volume of essays is a tribute to Nikki R. Keddie, professor emerita at UCLA, who in her forty-year career has authored and edited a number of important books and numerous articles in Iranian and Middle Eastern Studies. It contains essays by former...

This book is a festschrift for Mohammad-Reza Djalili, retired professor at the Graduate Institute for International Relations and Development at Geneva. It contains seventeen articles, divided into two parts: Part One contains articles on domestic politics...

For more than four decades, Professor Gernot Ludwig Windfuhr has been a pillar of Iranian Studies in the United States. His extensive publications in several fields and the number of scholars he has trained alone attest to his highly-regarded status and...

This book is dedicated to the eminent Iranist and Vedicist Hanns-Peter Schmidt. It consists of a series of articles on Iranian, Indian, and Indo-European topics written by some of the most prominent scholars of each field. This volume will be of particular...

The Qajar period of Iranian history (1797-1925) is being reinterpreted by historians of modern Iran. Once considered as a time of static backwardness, the period is now more often recognized as an age of dynamic political and social change. Beginning with a...