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Iranian Studies Series

IRANIAN STUDIES SERIESThe Iranian Studies Series publishes high-quality scholar ship on various aspects of Iranian civilization, covering both contemporary and classical cultures of the Persian cultural area. The contemporary Persian-speaking area includes Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Central Asia, while classical societies using Persian as a literary and cultural language were located in Anatolia, Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent. The objective of the series is to foster studies of the literary, historical, religious and linguistic products in Iranian languages. In addition to research monographs and reference works, the series publishes English-Persian critical text-editions of important texts. The series intends to publish resources and original research and make them accessible to a wide audience.

Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

Courtly RiddlesEnigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry

Sassan Tabatabai

Father of Persian Verse Rudaki and his Poetry

Seyed-Gohrab/McGlinn (eds)

Safina Revealed A Compendium of Persian Literature in 14th Century Tabriz

Seyed-Gohrab/McGlinn

One word - Yak Kaleme 19th Century Persian Treatise Introducing Western Codified Law

Anousha Sedighi

Agreement Restrictions in Persian

Seyed-Gohrab/Doufikar-Aerts/ McGlinn (eds)

Embodiments of Evil: Gog and MagogInterdisciplinary Studies of the “Other” in Literature & Internet Texts

Lewis/Sharma

The Necklace of the Pleiades 24 Essays on Persian Literature, Culture and Religion

Jos Coumans

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám An Updated Bibliography

Celebrating 20 titles - Iranian Studies Series

Carmen Pérez González

Local Portraiture Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers

Talattof/Seyed-Gohrab (eds)

Conflict and Development in Iranian Film

Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi

Processing compound verbs in Persian A Psycholinguistic Approach to Complex Predicates

Mahnia A.N. Mahani

The Holy Drama Persian Passion Play in Modern Iran

Bahman Solati

The Reception of Hafiz The Sweet Poetic Language of Hafiz in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Persia

Bürgel/Van Ruymbeke

A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim Artistic and Humanistic Aspects of Nizami Ganjavi’s Khamsa

Rahmoni/Van Den Berg (eds)

The Story of Barzu As told by two storytellers from Boysun, Uzbekistan

Seyed-Gohrab (ed.)

The Great ‘Umar Khayyam A Global Reception of the Rubáiyát

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Celebrating 20 titles - Iranian Studies Series

CHIEF EDITORA.A. Seyed-Gohrab (Leiden University)

ADVISORY BOARD OF ISSF. Abdullaeva (University of Cambridge)

G.R. van den Berg (Leiden University)

F. de Blois (University of London, SOAS)

J.T.P. de Bruijn (Leiden University)

D.P. Brookshaw (University of Oxford)

N. Chalisova (Russian State University of (Moscow)

A. Adib-Moghaddam (University of London, SOAS)

D. Davis (Ohio State University)

M.M. Khorrami (New York University)

A.R. Korangy Isfahani (University of Virginia)

F.D. Lewis (University of Chicago)

L. Lewisohn (University of Exeter)

S. McGlinn (unaffiliated)

Ch. Melville (University of Cambridge)

D. Meneghini (University of Venice)

N. Pourjavady (University of Tehran)

Ch. van Ruymbeke (University of Cambridge)

A. Sedighi (Portland State University)

S. Sharma (Boston University)

K. Talattof (University of Arizona)

Z. Vesel (CNRS, Paris)

M.J. Yahaghi (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad)

R. Zipoli (University of Venice)

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Leila Rahimi Bahmany

Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath

Riccardo Zipoli

Irreverent Persia Invective, Satirical and Burlesque Poetry from the Origins to the Timurid Period (10th to 15th centuries)

Navid Fozi

Reclaiming the Faravahar Zoroastrian Survival in Contemporary Tehran

Anousha Sedighi

Persian in Use An Elementary Course in Language and Culture

Celebrating 20 titles - Iranian Studies Series