Iranian Studies Journal

Volume 54, Issue 3-4, 2021

Art and Art History

New Histories for the Age of Speed: The Archaeological–Architectural Past in Interwar Afghanistan and Iran

Nile Green

Jan Lucasz. van Hasselt: A Dutch Painter in Safavid Isfahan

Willem Floor & Forough Sajadi

Emissaries of Enlightenment: Azeri Theater Troupes in Iran and Central Asia, 1906–44

Kelsey Rice

Hermeneutics and Religious Texts

Zoroastrian Doctrine of Formation of Heavenly Bodies in Pahlavi Texts

Amir Ahmadi

Sanāʾi’s Hadiqat al-haqiqeh: Between Narrative and Non-narrative

Parisa Zahiremami

Conflicting Worldviews: Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsāʾī’s Risālat al-Rashtīyah and the Problematic of Akbarīan Mysticism

Leila Chamankhah

Varia

Religious Modernism in Pre-University Schools: The Case of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s Iran

Hamid Karamipour & Matthew Shannon

Falling Out of Love with the Franks: The Life and Writings of an Armenian Catholic Diplomat in the Service of Late Safavid Persia

Henry R. Shapiro

Hurufism: The Faḍlallāh Family, Children, and Testament

Fatih Usluer

Review Essay

Completing the Persianate Turn

Kaveh Hemmat

Reviews

The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception

Roger Sedarat

The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora: Meaning and Identity since the Islamic Revolution

Goulia Ghardashkhani

The Arts of Ornamental Geometry: A Persian Compendium on Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures, Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutawāfiqa (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. Persan 169, fols. 180r–199r), a Volume Commemorating Alpay Özdural

Patricia Blessing

The Iranian Expanse. Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE – 642 CE

Gianfilippo Terribili

The Layered Heart: Essays on Persian Poetry. A Celebration in Honor of Dick Davis

Roxane Haag-Higuchi

Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions

Owen Wright

India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765

Munis D. Faruqui

Mughal Arcadia: Persian Literature in an Indian Court

Thibaut d’Hubert

Islam, Modernity and New Millennium: Themes from a Critical Rationalist Reading of Islam

Mojtaba Mahdavi

English Language Teaching in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Innovations, Trends and Challenges

Hossein Davari & Abutaleb Iranmehr

In Memoriam

Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti (26 November 1938–19 September 2020): Teacher, Author, and Scholar of Islamic and Iranian Studies

Simone Cristoforetti & Leila Karami