Iranian Studies Journal

Volume 53, Issue 5-6, 2020

editorial

Editorial Note

Ali Gheissari

Articles

Ibn al-Malāḥimī on Zoroastrianism

Yoones Dehghani Farsani & Kianoosh Rezania

Translation of the Words of ʿAli b. Abi Tālib in Early Fourteenth-Century Iran: A Local Bilingual Network

Louise Marlow

On the Road: The Life and Verse of Mir Zeyn al-Din ʿEshq, a Forgotten Eighteenth-Century Poet

James White

Race, Slavery and Domesticity in Late Qajar Chronicles

Wendy DeSouza

An Oasis of Radicalism: The Labor Movement in Abadan in the 1940s

Nimrod Zagagi

Narrative Geometry in ʿAli Reza Gholami’s Divar (The Wall): New Developments in Iranian War Literature

Goulia Ghardashkhani

Dialogues with the Dead: Necropoetics of Zahra’s Paradise

Fatemeh Shams

Structures in Crisis: A Narrative Approach to Asghar Farhadi’s Films

Aarón Rodríguez Serrano

The Family Business in Iran since the Islamic Revolution as a Mode of Coordination

Thierry Coville

“We Deserve Better”: Ideologies of Deservingness and Status in the Interpretation of Chinese Goods in an Iranian Bazaar

Simon Theobald

Primary Sources, Archival Notes

An Early Decree of Nādir Shāh Concerning the vaqf of Ardabil

András Barati

Review Essays

The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands

Saghi Gazerani

Adab and Modernity: A “Civilising Process”? (Sixteenth–Twenty-First Century)

Neguin Yavari

Reviews

Ctesias’ Persica and Its Near Eastern Context

John O. Hyland

Persian Interventions: The Achaemenid Empire, Athens and Sparta, 450-386 BCE

Christopher Tuplin

Lives of the Prophets: The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru’s “Assembly of Chronicles,”

Sheila Blair

Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies: Essays in Memory of Hossein Ziai

Rasoul Namazi

The War between the Turks and the Persians: Conflict and Religion in the Safavid and Ottoman Worlds

Palmira Brummett

Diplomatie nippo-iranienne: Enjeu énergétique et interférences américaines: Concilier l’inconciliable

H. E. Chehabi

Taghi Erani, a Polymath in Interwar Berlin: Fundamental Science, Psychology, Orientalism, and Political Philosophy

Roman Siebertz

Female Bodies and Sexuality in Iran and the Search for Defiance

Navid Darvishzadeh

The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran: An Archival and Photographic Adventure

Claudia Yaghoobi

Women, Art, and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora

Marie Ostby

Does Intercultural Dialogue Matter? The Role of Intercultural Dialogue in the Foreign Cultural Policy of Iran and Germany

Lars Müller

In Memoriam

Badr al-Zamān Qarib (b. Tehran, 23 August 1929, d. Tehran, 28 July 2020): Author and Translator, Linguist, Expert in Soghdian, Iranologist

Jaleh Amouzegar | Translated from the Persian by Saghi Gazerani

Abdullah Ghouchani (b. Baghdad, 11 August 1948, d. Tehran, 7 August 2020): Epigrapher, Expert in Medieval Arabic and Persian Inscriptions

Robert Hillenbrand

Reza Banakar (b. Shiraz, 1959–d. Lund, 28 August 2020): Professor of Legal Sociology and Scholar of the Iranian Legal Culture

Ali Gheissari

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