The New Persia
Author | : Vincent Sheean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Eastern Question (central Asia) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Vincent Sheean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Eastern Question (central Asia) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Donald L. Stilo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780300100518 |
Although Persian is one of the world's oldest languages, in its modern form it is still spoken by more than forty million people in Iran and by more than twenty million people elsewhere. These volumes provide students from beginning to intermediate levels with a mastery of modern Persian (also known as farsi) and with an understanding of colloquial Persian. The books offer extended vocabulary, grammar, and essays on aspects of Iranian culture. Volume I emphasizes speaking and understanding, and Volume 2 focuses on the written language. The first to teach Persian as a living language, Modern Persian incorporates the most effective methodologies and the most recent cultural and linguistic changes occurring in Iran.
Author | : Homa Katouzian |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300121186 |
In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons—its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear program, and controversial role in the Middle East—but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than can be gleaned from the news. This authoritative and comprehensive history of Iran, written by Homa Katouzian, an acclaimed expert, covers the entire history of the area from the ancient Persian Empire to today’s Iranian state. Writing from an Iranian rather than a European perspective, Katouzian integrates the significant cultural and literary history of Iran with its political and social history. Some of the greatest poets of human history wrote in Persian—among them Rumi, Omar Khayyam, and Saadi—and Katouzian discusses and occasionally quotes their work. In his thoughtful analysis of Iranian society, Katouzian argues that the absolute and arbitrary power traditionally enjoyed by Persian/Iranian rulers has resulted in an unstable society where fear and short-term thinking dominate. A magisterial history, this book also serves as an excellent background to the role of Iran in the contemporary world.
Author | : Mana Kia |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2020-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1503611965 |
For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world. Not everyone who lived in the land of Iran was Persian, and Persians lived in many other lands as well. Thus to be Persian was to be embedded in a set of connections with people we today consider members of different groups. Persianate selfhood encompassed a broader range of possibilities than contemporary nationalist claims to place and origin allow. We cannot grasp these older connections without historicizing our conceptions of difference and affiliation. Mana Kia sketches the contours of a larger Persianate world, historicizing place, origin, and selfhood through its tradition of proper form: adab. In this shared culture, proximities and similarities constituted a logic that distinguished between people while simultaneously accommodating plurality. Adab was the basis of cohesion for self and community over the turbulent eighteenth century, as populations dispersed and centers of power shifted, disrupting the circulations that linked Persianate regions. Challenging the bases of protonationalist community, Persianate Selves seeks to make sense of an earlier transregional Persianate culture outside the anachronistic shadow of nationalisms.
Author | : Louisa Shafia |
Publisher | : Ten Speed Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 1607743574 |
This luscious and contemporary take on the alluring cuisine of Iran featuring 75 recipes for both traditional Persian dishes and modern reinterpretations using Middle Eastern ingredients. In The New Persian Kitchen, acclaimed chef and Lucid Food blogger Louisa Shafia explores her Iranian heritage by reimagining classic Persian recipes from a fresh, vegetable-focused perspective. These vibrant recipes demystify Persian ingredients like rose petals, dried limes, tamarind, and sumac, while offering surprising preparations for familiar foods such as beets, carrots, mint, and yogurt for the busy, health-conscious cook. The nearly eighty recipes—such as Turmeric Chicken with Sumac and Lime, Pomegranate Soup, and ice cream sandwiches made with Saffron Frozen Yogurt and Cardamom Pizzelles—range from starters to stews to sweets, and employ streamlined kitchen techniques and smart preparation tips. A luscious, contemporary take on a time-honored cuisine, The New Persian Kitchen makes the exotic and beautiful tradition of seasonal Persian cooking both accessible and inspiring.
Author | : Richard Nelson Frye |
Publisher | : Mazda Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Iran |
ISBN | : 9781568590080 |
Author | : Josef Wiesehöfer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Iran |
ISBN | : 9781417520770 |
Author | : Matt Waters |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107652723 |
The Achaemenid Persian Empire, at its greatest territorial extent under Darius I (r.522–486 BCE), held sway over territory stretching from the Indus River Valley to southeastern Europe and from the western Himalayas to northeast Africa. In this book, Matt Waters gives a detailed historical overview of the Achaemenid period while considering the manifold interpretive problems historians face in constructing and understanding its history. This book offers a Persian perspective even when relying on Greek textual sources and archaeological evidence. Waters situates the story of the Achaemenid Persians in the context of their predecessors in the mid-first millennium BCE and through their successors after the Macedonian conquest, constructing a compelling narrative of how the empire retained its vitality for more than two hundred years (c.550–330 BCE) and left a massive imprint on Middle Eastern as well as Greek and European history.
Author | : Fereshteh Daftari |
Publisher | : Asia Society Museum |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
'Iran Modern' offers a timely exploration of the cultural diversity and production of avant-garde art in Iran after World War II and up to the revolution, from 1950 through to 1979.
Author | : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2014-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748677119 |
This book explores the representation of Persian monarchy and the court of the Achaemenid Great Kings from the point of view of the ancient Iranians themselves and through the sometimes distorted prism of Classical authors.