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    Featuring work from before and after the revolution, it offers Western audiences an invaluable introduction to the scope and quality of the country's artistic output.

    Outside Europe, however, it has continued to flourish throughout the 20th century. Covering Turkey, Iran, Abkhazia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, this study reveals the counter-forces unleashed by the project of nationalist modernization, and the stimulation of identity politics as the result of ruthless repression of minority languages, culture, traditions, and religion--the life-blood of minority ethnicity. The study examines how these policies have strengthened identity politics and the movements for opting out of the nation.

    Then, under the cool night skies and the full muh above, we'll take it in turns to recite she'r, and discuss the hasti: bale, amma...bale, hatman! 'yes, but...yes, sure!' From mystics to museums, barbers to bazaars, and art to archaeology, jump into the event with this phrasebook...In This Guide:Clear pronunciation guide for the scrupulous speaker.Action-packed vocabulary for outdoor devotees.Classical Persian poetry for that inspirational moment.Savouries and sweets to summon up a feast.Language tips for getting the perfect bargain.Comprehensive two-way dictionary.

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    He brings to light a wealth of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Indo-Persian texts, made "homeless" by subsequent nationalist histories and shows how they relate to Indo-Iranian modernity. In doing so, he argues for a radical rewriting of Iranian history with profound implications for Islamic debates on gender.

    Against a background of intrigue, manipulation and Anglo-Russian rivalry for influence, Sir Denis Wright charts the experiences, adventures, and impact of the "English" (including many Scots, Irish, and Welsh) who helped to define the relationship between Britain and Iran from the end of the 18th century to the early 20th century. We meet the diplomats and consuls, soldiers, frontier-makers, spies, traders, travelers, missionaries, concession-hunters, and doctors who in their often colorful, different ways contributed to Anglo-Iranian understanding and misunderstanding.

    This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1892 edition by Longmans, Green, and Co., London and New York.

    Nasrin Rahimieh's complex and nuanced arguments effectively demonstrate the links that her five figures have to a stable Persian identity--complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change.Rahimieh delineates the captivating histories of "missing" Persians from the sixteenth century to modern times and defines the arbitrary generic boundaries that isolate Persian biographies, autobiographies, travelogues, and social histories. Balancing their documentary and historical value with creative and fictional elements, she reads them as individual engagements with broader questions of Persian identity at different moments of the nation's history. As modes of self-expression, these texts reveal both remnants of traditional Persian literary forms and new styles adopted through translations and readings in European literature and history.Even as it sheds new light on crucial points in cultural self-definition, Missing Persians offers a fresh look at traditional institutions, the role of women, and Persia's turbulent struggle to enter modernity on its own terms.