Overview :The hinterland of Bushehr on the Persian Gulf-Tangestan, Borazjan, Dashti, and other districts-was populated by a disparate and poor people,... Read More
Overview :Although most people do not speak of theater and Iran in the same breath, dramatic expression has always been a fixture of Iranian culture. ... Read More
Overview :In the early-seventeenth century the European thirst for knowledge about other countries and cultures was growing, after all it was the Age ... Read More
Overview :The island of Khark was an important link in Persian Gulf navigation, supplying passing ships with water, victuals, and pilots for ships sai... Read More
Overview :Located in the Straits of Hormuz, the island of Qeshm has had a tumultuous history. Qeshm: The History of a Persian Gulf Island is the first... Read More
Overview :Given the importance of bread in the Iranian diet, it is surprising that its role in Iranian society has so far been ignored as a subject of... Read More
Overview :This study illuminates the 2,500-year social history of sexual relations in Iran. Marriage, temporary marriage, prostitution, and homosexual... Read More
Overview :Links with the Hinterland focuses on two related themes: the importance of what goes on in a port city's hinterland, and, the importance of ... Read More
Overview :Until now, there have been no books and only a few articles available in English that deal with the actual practice of medicine in nineteent... Read More
Overview :Muscat, the capital city of present day Oman, has had a long, and colorful history as a typical Indian Ocean port at the mouth of the Persia... Read More
Overview :This book discusses the political and economic history of the port of Bushehr, which by the end of the eighteenth century had become the gat... Read More
Overview :Originally, Khorshid Khanom or "Sun Lady," was the symbol of the Mother Goddess, but later she became the goddess of fertility and water, a... Read More
Overview :Merchants and bankers managed much of nineteenth-century Iran's economy and finances. The ulama-clerical leaders-who considered themselves r... Read More
Overview :Little is known about the Arab migrants who settled on the Iranian coast between Bushehr and Lengeh in the late 1500s. They were a disparate... Read More
Overview :By any measure, Nader Shah-founder of the Afsharid Dynasty-ranks as a towering figure in Iranian history. Rising from the humblest of origin... Read More
Overview :Bandar Abbas, once a small fishing village, became the gateway port for Iran after Shah Abbas defeated the Portuguese in 1622. However, with... Read More
Overview :Games Persians Play is a study of the history, development, and change in the games played in Iran. Iranians, young and old, rich and poor, ... Read More
Overview :For this book, Willem Floor has selected and translated into English thirteen German sources reporting on events in Iran from 1580 to 1722. ... Read More
Overview :Not much has been written about the early beginnings of modern medicine in Iran. With this book, renowned scholar Willem Floor, who has writ... Read More