Iranian Studies Journal

Volume 52, Issue 3-4, 2019

editorial

Editorial Foreword

Ali Gheissari

GUEST EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

Commercial, Confessional, and Military Encounters in the Ottoman–Iranian Borderlands in the Early Modern Period

Fariba Zarinebaf

Articles

Azerbaijan between Two Empires: A Contested Borderland in the Early Modern Period (Sixteenth‒Eighteenth Centuries)

Fariba Zarinebaf

A Messiah Untamed: Notes on the Philology of Shah Ismāʿīl’s Dīvān

Ferenc Csirkés

Treaty of Zohab, 1639: Foundational Myth or Foundational Document?

Sabri Ateş

Rethinking Idris-i Bidlisi: An Iranian Bureaucrat and Historian between the Shah and the Sultan

Vural Genç

The Safavid-Qizilbash Ecumene and the Formation of the Qizilbash-Alevi Community in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1500–c. 1700

Rıza Yıldırım

Through the Backdoor: An Overview of the English East India Company’s Rise and Fall in Safavid Iran, 1616–40

Daniel Razzari

Safavid Iran and the “Turkish Question” or How to Avoid a War on Multiple Fronts

Rudi Matthee

PRIMARY SOURCES, ARCHIVAL NOTES

Ottoman Taxation and the Province of Tabriz in the Early Eighteenth Century

Fariba Zarinebaf

REGULAR ARTICLES

The Mazandarani Dialect of Kalijān Rostāq

Habib Borjian

DPg: Ahuramazdā and the Creation of Water, with a New Text Edition

Soheil Delshad

Operation Countenance: The 1941 Invasion of Iran and the Clash of Propaganda Narratives

Mervyn Roberts

REVIEW ESSAY

“Great Games” on the Crossroads of High Asia

M. Nazif Shahrani

reviews

Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts: Codices Persici, Codicis Eyseriani, Codex Persicus Add.

Benedek Péri

Persepolis West (Fars, Iran): Report on the Fieldwork Carried out by the Iranian-Italian Joint Archaeological Mission in 2008–2009 (BAR-IS 2870)

Ali Mousavi

“Mysticism” in Iran: The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept

Syed A. H. Zaidi

Crisis, Collapse, Militarism and Civil War: The History and Historiography of 18th Century Iran

Assef Ashraf

Occidentalist Perceptions of European Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Persian Travel Diaries: Travels in Farangi Space

Shawhin Roudbari

BOOK REVIEW ROUNDTABLE

Abbas Amanat’s Iran: A Modern History. Opening Remarks

Arash Khazeni

Iran: A Modern History

Rudi Matthee

Iran: A Modern History

Sussan Babaie

Iran: A Modern History

Janet Afary

Iran: A Modern History

Afshin Matin-Asgari