Iran Today [2 volumes]

Iran Today [2 volumes]

Author: Manochehr Dorraj

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2008-10-30

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 1567207405

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Iran dominates the media headlines once again and has taken center stage in the U.S. and European Union strategy toward the Middle East. A more nuanced understanding of Iranian society has assumed even greater significance and urgency. Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic offers crucial insight for students and the general reader into an often misunderstood and complex country that is shrouded in mystery and misperception. Heir to a long history and a great culture and civilization, Iran embodies a rich, complex, and diverse mosaic that defines its national identity. Diversity is also the operative word that describes Iranian landscapes and geography, its multiple ethnic groups and their varied cultures and traditions, as well as the uneven and vastly different levels of economic and industrial development, conflicting political tendencies, and different and often contradictory social and cultural outlooks. Because of its tumultuous recent political history, Iran appears to encapsulate all of these internal differences and stark contrasts somewhat more distinctly than most of its neighbors. The 1978-1979 revolution transformed the society and culture in fundamental ways and redefined social life. It created new institutions of governance and Islamicized the culture, education and the legal system in an attempt to create a new society that would usher in the reign of piety and virtue. Yet, Islamization had to come to terms with pre-Islamic and illustrious Persian history and culture, as well as the realities of an interdependent, postmodern, globalized world in which, as a developing country, Iran resides in the periphery. Within this framework, the dynamics and complexity of social life in the Islamic Republic unfold. This encyclopedia is the source for up-to-date, authoritative information on a full range of critical topics of interest. Coverage of the Islamic Republic here falls into the general categories of history, politics, economics, society and culture. The most significant aspects of the life in Iran since the revolution-the era of the Islamic Republic so far-are stressed. The wide range of entries shows the richness and complexity of Iranian society, its multiple and varied facets, its expressions and outward manifestations, and its nuanced responses to political repression, instability, war, pervasive crisis and the chronic tension between modernity and tradition. Some of the entries designed to highlight these important phenomena revolve around the country's ethnic mosaic, the social role and position of women, veiling, the educational system, sports, intellectuals, the arts and artistic expression, literature, poetry, cuisine, healthcare, and the family. Other entries range from regionalism and urban development to the petroleum industry, agriculture, the banking system, issues of wealth and poverty, class structure and economic mobility, and the private sector. In a number of significant areas economic, social and cultural phenomena intersect. These intersections are reflected in entries on broadcasting and communications technology, the Internet, public relations, electronic and print media, and family planning and healthcare. A chronology, selected bibliography, and photos complement the entries.


Iran and the West

Iran and the West

Author: Ghani

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781138869967

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First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


America and Iran

America and Iran

Author: John Ghazvinian

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 0307271811

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"A history of the relationship between Iran and America from the 1700s through the current day"--


Iran and the Deccan

Iran and the Deccan

Author: Keelan Overton

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2020-06-02

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 025304894X

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In the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India. Lured to the region for many reasons, these poets, traders, statesmen, and artists of all kinds left an indelible mark on the Islamic sultanates that ruled the Deccan until the late seventeenth century. The result was the creation of a robust transregional Persianate network linking such distant cities as Bidar and Shiraz, Bijapur and Isfahan, and Golconda and Mashhad. Iran and the Deccan explores the circulation of art, culture, and talent between Iran and the Deccan over a three-hundred-year period. Its interdisciplinary contributions consider the factors that prompted migration, the physical and intellectual poles of connectivity between the two regions, and processes of adaptation and response. Placing the Deccan at the center of Indo-Persian and early modern global history, Iran and the Deccan reveals how mobility, liminality, and cultural translation nuance the traditional methods and boundaries of the humanities.


Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal Reports: Volume 6

Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal Reports: Volume 6

Author: S. R. Pirrie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-07-13

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780521464406

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The Tribunal, concerned principally with the claims of US nationals against Iran, is the most important to have sat in over half a century.


Iran, Past and Present

Iran, Past and Present

Author: Donald Newton Wilber

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1400857473

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This Ninth Edition of the standard work on Iran includes up-to-date statistics and current information on the country. It begins with an account of the history, arts, languages, and religions of Iran from 4000 B.C. to the present. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


Iran Modern

Iran Modern

Author: Fereshteh Daftari

Publisher: Asia Society Museum

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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'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.


Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal Reports: Volume 7

Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal Reports: Volume 7

Author: J. C. Adlam

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-25

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780521464413

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The Tribunal, concerned principally with the claims of US nationals against Iran, is the most important to have sat in over half a century.


Iran's Revolutionary Guard

Iran's Revolutionary Guard

Author: Steven K. O'Hern

Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 159797823X

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Argues that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard poses a danger to the economy and well-being of the United States, citing its previous operations in the Middle East and Asia.