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| Title: A Man of Two Worlds |
| Sub-title: Pedros Bedik in Iran, 1670-1675 |
| By (author): Pedros Bedik, Colette Ouahes, Willem Floor |
| ISBN10-13: 1933823658 : 9781933823652 |
| Throughout history, many an ambitious diplomatic initiative has slipped into obscurity, but few have been so thoroughly forgotten as the efforts of a young man named Pedros Bedik to foster an alliance between two great seventeenth century powers, Persia and the Holy Roman Empire, against the mighty Ottoman Empire that lay between them. As a related enterprise, he worked to end the separation between the Western and Eastern versions of Christianity. In 1678, he published a bookwritten in Latin, with a Persian introductionintended to explain the East to the West and thus further those aims. Never reprinted or translated, it has remained virtually unknown until now. Bedik was raised in an Armenian, Christian community in Ottoman-ruled Aleppo. At the age of 16, he was sent to Rome by his mother to avoid forced conversion to Islam. For seven years he attended a missionary college there, but his theological education abruptly ended in 1668 when he was expelled for carousing. Soon after, he left Rome in the company of the archbishop of Nakhchivan, in present-day Azerbaijan. En route the two agreed to launch a project to unite the Armenian Church with that of Rome. Bedik wanted to use this plan as leverage to get European Roman Catholic support for the protection of Armenian Christians. From Armenia Bedik travelled to Iran and spent 5 years there. In his book, which is mostly about his time in there, he is aggressively Christian and scathing about Islam, but not about Iran and Iranians. And he goes to great pains to show that the Shah was more than willing to enter into a pact with the Pope and the Christian princes of Europe to jointly attack the Turks from all sides. The value of this long-forgotten book lies in Bedik's talents as a knowledgeable, linguistically-skilled and keen-eyed observer, although a highly partisan one. Its pages contain fascinating descriptions of the court, customs, and people of Iran, including such unique information as the ash-e su memorial banquet ceremony; the abbasiyaneh drinking custom; how Persians threw a party and their cooking; the Nowruz ceremonies; the various breeds of horses; the race of messengers, and the Caspian Kalmyk nomadic tribe's annual oath to the Russian tsar. Bedik eventually returned to Europe, entered the Holy Roman Emperor's service as diplomat and soldier, and was made a count. In 1683, he was appointed ambassador and sent to Iran to discuss joint military action against the Ottomans and to seek better treatment for Iran's Christians. En route, after discussions in Warsaw, he disappeared in Russia. In this book, his vital and adventurous spirit lives again. |
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Pages: 582
Size: 229x152mm
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| Published: Mage Publishers Inc (US) - December 2013 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Middle Eastern history : Religion & politics : Ottoman Empire |
| List Price: 50.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 1 of: 94 |
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| Title: A Nook in the Temple of Fame |
| Sub-title: French Military Officers in Persian Service, 18071826 |
| By (author): D T Potts |
| ISBN10-13: 1949445437 : 9781949445435 |
| In the interests of exploiting Irans location and natural resources to launch a projected attack on British India, Napoleon sent a delegation of military advisers to Fath 'Ali Shah. They were charged with designing and reinforcing fortifications, training cavalry and infantry to European standards, and establishing a centre of artillery production. He also sent geographers to reconnoitre the country, documenting routes that might be used by French and Persian land forces in a planned but never fulfilled invasion of India. The work of these officers has often been mentioned in passing but rarely has it been studied in detail. Although shifting geo-political forces ended the Napoleonic experiment, French involvement in the armed forces of 'Abbas Mirza and his brother Mohammad 'Ali Mirza continued. Despite the presence of English officers at Tabriz, the renegade Gaspard or J.B. Drouville headed to Iran, followed after the debacle at Waterloo by a handful of French officers who sought employment outside their native land. This book is the first detailed study of the French officers who worked in Iran between 1807 and 1826, the impact they had, the innovations they introduced, their trials, and their tribulations. French military involvement in early Qajar Iran produced a host of stories deserving the attention of anyone with an interest in the seeds of military modernisation in the Middle East, technology transfer in the 19th century, and the social, political, diplomatic, and military history of the Middle East in one of its most tumultuous phases. |
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Pages: 428
Size: 229x152mm
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| Published: Mage Publishers Inc (US) - October 2022 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: European history : Middle Eastern history : France : Iran : Ottoman Empire |
| List Price: 96.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 2 of: 94 |
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| Title: A Scholar for our Times |
| Sub-title: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Shahrokh Meskoob |
| Edited by: Abbas Milani, C Ryan Perkins |
| ISBN10-13: 1949445348 : 9781949445343 |
| Shahrokh Meskoob was an Iranian writer and intellectual, who was born in Babol, on the Caspian coast, in 1924 and died in Paris in 2005. Imprisoned in the mid-1950s for leftist activities, he was forced to leave the country following the Islamic Revolution of 1979, after publishing two critical articles in the Ayandegan newspaper in Tehran. Meskoobs literary analysis of the Shahnameh and the poetry of Hafez, and his book Iranian National Identity and the Persian Language, all translated into English, demonstrate his view that national identity meant cultural identity and that modernity in Iran should be based upon an understanding of the best of Iranian culture. This book celebrates Meskoobs life and work in eight essays by prominent Iranian scholars and in a selection of facsimiles of his papers, now archived at Stanford University. |
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Pages: 228
Size: 235x160mm
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| Published: Mage Publishers Inc (US) - March 2022 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Biography: literary : Poetry : Iran |
| List Price: 45.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 3 of: 94 |
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| Title: Agriculture in Qajar Iran |
| By (author): Willem Floor |
| ISBN10-13: 0934211787 : 9780934211789 |
| Agriculture was the mainstay of Iran's economy in the nineteenth century, yet little is known about it. Historians have rarely taken that important reality into account when writing on the economic or social history of that period, and until now there have been no comprehensive studies of Iranian agriculture. Now, in Agriculture in Qajar Iran, renowned scholar Willem Floor has compiled an all-encompassing analysis of nineteenth-century Iranian agriculture based on extensive research into previously untapped Persian and European archives. Floor presents farming in Iran from the ground up and in its every dimension. His investigation covers farming methods like irrigation and seeding, the raising of livestock, and the range of crops cultivated, from wheat, barley, and rice, to the more notorious cash crops of tobacco and opium. Floor also delves into methods of forestry and fishing, subjects about which very little is known and even less has been written, until now. Agriculture in Qajar Iran traces the commercialisation of Iranian farming, and explains how this process altered the structure of Iran's economy. The change included the rise in cash crops, the growth of wage labor, the rise in off-farm employment, and the market economy's growing influence in the countryside. Floor also highlights the importance of trade within this burgeoning system, and gauges the impact of the commercialisation of agriculture on the rural population's socioeconomic status. |
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Pages: 692
Size: 210x280mm
Illustrations: b/w photos
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| Published: Mage Publishers Inc (US) - December 2003 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Social & cultural history : Iran |
| List Price: 66.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 4 of: 94 |
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| Title: An Encounter with Dylan Thomas |
| By (author): Abbas Milani |
| ISBN10-13: 1949445410 : 9781949445411 |
| This book is part of a series of Iranian Studies publications made possible by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies at Stanford University. Abadan, 1951. Iran and Britain are bracing for battle over the continued British monopoly of Iran's oil. Twenty-nine-year-old Ebrahim Golestan, who was to become a towering figure in Iranian cinema and literature, encounters Dylan Thomas, the famous Welsh poet, who died two years later at the age of thirty-nine from bronchial disease and pneumonia. More for his celebrity than an intimate knowledge of the subject, Thomas had been sent to Iran by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company to write a script for a propaganda film about the company's supposedly salutary role in the country. But for a few hours, Golestan and Thomas pause amidst the escalating standoff between their two countries and speak candidly about poetry, history, philosophy, and the perils of translation. Published here for the first time is the English translation (with facing pages in the original Persian) of Golestan's unflinching portrayal of that encounter, revealing, all too clearly, how unsuited Thomas was for the task in hand. Accompanying the translation is an account of Thomas's time in Iran, written by Abbas Milani, Director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University, together with Alina Utrata, a Ph.D. candidate and Gates Cambridge scholar. Based on the poet's letters, journals, and archival material in England and Wales, it helps to shed further light on an episode long shrouded in mystery and plagued by controversy. Publication of this book coincides with the hundredth birthday in October 2022 of Ebrahim Golestan. To mark the occasion, Professor Milani has included a personal and erudite introductory essay on Golestan's life and work, examining his pioneering approach to film and his important contribution to Iranian literature, despite living in exile for most of his adult life. With a filmography and selected bibliography of the works by or about Golestan, this multifaceted volume offers not only a striking commentary on Iranian arts, politics, and history. |
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Pages: 184
Size: 229x152mm
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| Published: Mage Publishers Inc (US) - October 2022 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Memoirs : Anthologies (non-poetry) : Comparative politics |
| List Price: 51.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 5 of: 94 |
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| Title: Astrakhan -- Anno 1770 |
| Sub-title: Its History, Geography, Population, Trade, Flora, Fauna & Fisheries |
| By (author): Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin Translated by: Willem Floor |
| ISBN10-13: 1933823542 : 9781933823546 |
| In 1770, Astrakhan, on the left bank of the Volga River close to where it discharges into the Caspian Sea, was Russia's most important southern port through which all its trade with Iran and the Orient was conducted. Astrakhan had been a Tatar city until 1556 (when Ivan the Terrible conquered it), a fact reflected in the composition of its population in 1770: Tatars, Russians, Armenians, and Iranians. |
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Pages: 280
Size: 275x210mm
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| Published: Mage Publishers Inc (US) - December 2012 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: History : Russia |
| List Price: 62.50 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 6 of: 94 |
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| Title: Black Parrot, Green Crow |
| Sub-title: A Collection of Short Fiction |
| By (author): Houshang Golshiri |
| ISBN10-13: 0934211744 : 9780934211741 |
| Until now, only a sparse selection of Golshiri's fiction has been available in English translation -- three short stories, a novella written under a pseudonym, and his novel Prince Ehtejab, which was made into a film. Now, Black Parrot, Green Crow brings together the largest collection of Golshiri's writings in any language -- eighteen short stories and three poems. They span the arc of Golshiri's career as a writer, from his days as a young student in Isfahan under the Pahlavi regime, to the 1980s and 1990s, and the disappointment of Iranian people with the Islamic Republic. Golshiri's stories, crafted with a withering irony, expose the fanatical and draconian political apparatus of tyrannical regimes, while his wry humour and delicate sensitivity to the human condition tempers the blistering satire, making the narratives short but nonetheless harrowing and touching tragedies. The tales are filled with the uncertainty of life in a culture undergoing drastic change, and hauntingly etch the plight of the individual in a climate of political oppression. |
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Pages: 240
Size: 155x230mm
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| Published: Mage Publishers Inc (US) - December 2003 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 7 of: 94 |
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| Title: Borrowed Ware |
| Sub-title: Medieval Persian Epigrams |
| Translated by: Dick Davis |
| ISBN10-13: 0934211388 : 9780934211383 |
| Poet and translator Dick Davis brings together a collection of epigrams by poets from the 'classic' period of Persian literature. It makes a fascinating introduction to a literature that is little known in the West, and incidentally provides insight into a vanished and extraordinary way of life. Davis's prodigious scholarship of Persian poetry has enabled him to select a wide range of poems, from both famous and little-known poets. The result is some of the best English translations of Persian poetry ever. Davis has maintained exceptional faithfulness to the original Persian while recasting the poems' grace and drive in English. The book also contains a lucid and entertaining introduction, and informative notes on each of the sixty-eight poets whose work is included. Each poem is faced by the text in delicate Persian nasta'liq calligraphy by Amir Hossein Tabnak. |
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Pages: 206
Size: 140x215mm
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| Published: Mage Publishers Inc (US) - December 2003 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry : Iran : English : Persian (Farsi) |
| List Price: 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 8 of: 94 |
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| Title: Cooking in Iran |
| Sub-title: Regional Recipes and Kitchen Secrets |
| Edition Statement: 2nd Edition |
| By (author): Najmieh Batmanglij |
| ISBN10-13: 1949445070 : 9781949445077 |
| After five years of overcoming obstacles, meticulous planning, and ten thousand miles of traveling the length and breadth of Iran cooking with local cooks, visiting workshops, and developing recipes Najmieh's dream has been realised with the creation of Cooking in Iran: Regional Recipes and Kitchen Secrets. This book is a distillation of those past five years. It is an authoritative exploration of a cuisine whose cultural roots are among the deepest of any in the world. "The Grande Dame of Iranian Cooking" Esteemed American chef. Award-winning cookbook author. Persian cooking instructor. Iranian immigrant. Storyteller. Mother of two acclaimed sons Zal -- a filmmaker, Rostam -- a musician. Born in the middle of the 20th century in Tehran, Iran. Lives in Washington, DC and Los Angeles. Consults with restaurants around the world. Member of Les Dames d'Escoffier. |
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Pages: 728
Size: 240x215mm
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| Published: Mage Publishers Inc (US) - May 2020 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: National & regional cuisine : Iran |
| List Price: 63.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 9 of: 94 |
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| Title: Crowning Anguish |
| Sub-title: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity 1884-1914 |
| Edition Statement: 2nd Edition |
| By (author): Taj al-Saltana |
| ISBN10-13: 1949445208 : 9781949445206 |
| The life of Taj al-Saltana, daughter of the ruler of Iran, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, epitomized the predicaments of her changing era. Overcoming her limited education within the harem walls, Taj chronicled a thirty-year span in the life of a generation that witnessed a shift from traditional order to revolutionary flux. It is as though she had chosen this moment to recall her personal historya tale filled with wonder and anguish -- in order to record a cultural and political leap, symbolic of her time, from the indulgent, sheltered, and often petty world of her fathers harem to the puzzling and exposed, yet emotionally and intellectually challenging world of a new Iran. Now almost one hundred years later Tajs memoirs are relevant and qualify her not only as a feminist by her societys standards but also in comparison with feminists of her generation in Europe and America. Beyond her fascination for the material glamours of the West at the turn of the twentieth century -- fashion, architecture, furniture, the motorcar -- she was also influenced by Western cultures painting, music, history, literature and language. And yet throughout this time she kept her bond with her own literary and cultural heritage and what she calls her Persianness. Despite her troubled life of agony -- an unloving and harsh mother; a benevolent but self-indulgent father; an adolescent, bisexual husband; separation from her children; financial difficulties; the stigma of leading a libertine lifestyle and the infamy of removing her veil -- Tajs is a genuine voice for womens social grievances in late-twentieth century Iran, and one that reveals a remarkable woman in her own right. This new paperback edition, now also available as an eBook, coincides with the release of the audio book read by the Iranian-American actress Kathreen Khavari. Abbas Amanat, who edited the book, and wrote its superb introduction and historical biographies, has written a new preface that adds details that have emerged since 1993 about Taj al-Saltanehs tragic life after 1914. |
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Pages: 352
Size: 230x155mm
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| Published: Mage Publishers Inc (US) - December 2020 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Middle Eastern history : Iran |
| List Price: 33.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Title: 10 of: 94 |
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