Parvin E'tesami may be called the greatest Iranian poetess in classical style. She witnessed Iran's social, economic, and educational changes which followed the termination of the Qajar dynasty and the beginning of the reign of Reza Shah, the first Pahlavi....

Foroogh Farrokhzaad (1935-67) is the leading feminist of Iran of this century and the greatest Persian poetess of modern style. A Rebirth [Tavallodi Digar] is a collection of a woman’s new identity as “woman as lover” rather that “woman as domestic” in Iran....

Two long poems,critical of the Iranian clerics, by one of Iran's leading social critics, Sa'idi- Sirjani, who died in 1998 as a result of sever torture he suffered in the notorious Evin Prison.

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 first Persian edition of the book appeared nearly sixty years ago. Since then, it has undergone eight printings in Iran under the supervision of Parvin's brother, the late Abolfath Etessami. This volume for the first time contains a full bibliography of...

First published in Berlin, Germany in 1890. Three-volume set, sold as one. Language: German. Condition: Good. Reprinted in Iran in 1976 as part of the Pahlavi Commemorative Reprint Series. For more information, please see under "Select Images."

SOLD. First published in1875 in London, England. Reprinted in Iran in 1976 as part of the Pahlavi Commemorative Reprint Series. Language: Persian and English. Conditions: Excellent. 4-color lithography. For more information, please see "Select...

This volume presents poems from the Prakrit Sattasai. The Prakrit language is a less well known and more "common" descendant of Sanskrit, the classical language of India. As such it was not used for the same purposes as was Sanskrit, but produced quite a bit...

This volume contains the translation of the literary works of Shahrzad, an Iranian dancer, actor, ‎and writer, originally published in three different books before the 1979 Iranian Revolution. In ‎the 1960s and 70s, Shahrzad was known as a popular artist: she...

The present volume is a collection of articles by the noted critic and translator, Karim Emami, on art, cinema, theatre, and literature in Iran in the dynamic 1960s, when culture and society were in the throes of transformation. Emami's insightful and...