Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s

Edited by Fabrizio Speziale

€99.00$136.00
Volume: 
7
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ISSN: 
1569-7401
ISBN13: 
9789004228290
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1
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x, 244 pp.
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€110.00$151.00
Series:
IS
Volume:
6
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004211254
Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry
edited by Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
This volume contains ten chapters on Persian metaphors, tropes, rhetorical figures, and poetic forms and genres, by some of the world's foremost scholars in the field of classical Persian poetry.
€129.00$177.00
Series:
IS
Volume:
5
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004209794
Theater State and the Formation of Early Modern Public Sphere in Iran
Babak Rahimi
This first systematic study of a wide range of Persian and European archival and primary sources, analyzes how the Muharram rituals changed from being an orginally devotional practice to public events of political significance, setting the stage for the emergence of the early modern Iranian ...
€146.00$189.00
Series:
IS
Volume:
4
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004173446
East and West of Zagros
C.J. Edmonds Edited and with an introduction by Yann Richard, Sorbonne nouvelle (Paris)
A Consular Officer in Bushire, serving in Mesopotamia and Luristan during First World War, Edmonds was sent to Qazvin after the war. He witnessed the Jangal upheaval and the 1921 coup d’Etat. The encounter with Persia of a well-trained and brilliant British agent.
€212.00$275.00
Series:
IS
Volume:
3
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004170353
The Messiah of Shiraz
Denis Martin MacEoin
Based throughout on original Persian and Arabic sources, most in manuscript, this is an exhaustive overview of Babi history and doctrine. Alongside Amanat's Resurrection and Renewal, this distillation of a lifetime's work on the movement brings Babi studies into the twentieth century.
€96.00$124.00
Series:
IS
Volume:
2
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004163539
Rūmī and the Hermeneutics of Eroticism
Mahdi Tourage
Drawing on relevant postmodern theories, and exploring the link between the dynamics of eroticism and esotericism, this book establishes the esoteric significance of the bawdy tales in Rūmī’s (d. 1273) Mathnawī, a masterpiece of medieval Perso-Islamic mystical literature.
€96.00$124.00
Series:
IS
Volume:
1
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004153455
Living Shi'ism
David Thurfjell
This book provides a vivid portrait of Iranian Islamism. Based on interviews with grass-roots activists it gives a unique picture of pro-regime movement in Iran. It is of interest to anyone who seeks to understand Shi’ite Islamism today.
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