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...

Collection of articles by one of Iran's leading thinkers and social critiques of modern times.

Passed down by word of mouth through the magic of live performance art for a millennium and a half till its first scholarly transcriptions in the late 19th century, the Armenian epic “Daredevils of Sasun” presents a rich legacy of accumulated folk...

Three so-called manuals of government administration, all written between 1726 and 1731, are the main source for the study of the structure of the royal court and central government of Safavid Iran. The “Tadhkerat al-Moluk,” published in 1943, has...

The fifth/sixth century Armenian Neoplatonist David Anhaght‘ is recognized as the founder of several branches of Armenian philosophy, particularly logic. His philosophical writings have been studied by generations of Armenian scholars, and during the...

Dr. Nina Garsoïan begins her masterfully written autobiography by introducing the reader to the émigré world into which she was born. She paints candid pictures of her parents and grandparents, ethnic Armenians who had never lived in Armenia. In the early...

Leonardo P. Alishan was an Armenian-Iranian-American poet, short story writer, and playwright, as well as a scholar of Persian and comparative literature. Alishan’s writings—his poetry in particular—although very personal, speak to shared experiences and...

The Qajar monarch, Nasir al-Din Shah, ruled Persia (Iran) for the second half of the nineteenth century (1848-96), a momentous period in which the forces of colonialism and Western commercial interest were fully unleashed on the Islamic world. Within Persia...

A Latin-English-Persian dictionary with more than 8,000 Latin entries and 30,000 English sub-entries, describing authentic Persian names of the plants of Iran and their Latin-English equivalents.