Persia (RLE Iran A) 1136841547, 9781136841545

This volume is a fascinating portrait of a part of the world uneasily balanced between many loyalties – East and West, E

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Persia (RLE Iran A)
1136841547, 9781136841545

This volume gives a popular description of Iran and was the result of the author’s extensive travelling in the country a

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This book is the first full-length analysis of the theory and practice of Persian singing, demonstrating the centrality

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This book describes the structure of modern Persia, showing the methods by which it conveys meaning in sentences and con

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This volume contains thirty-five translations of Persian poetry, arranged in five groups as well as two examples of pros

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The Sufi phenomenon is not easy to sum up or define. This book is concerned primarily with the Persian mystics and looks

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This book analyses the distant and proximate causes of the 1978 revolution in Iran as well as the dynamics of power whic

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Iran is More than Persia: Ethnic Politics in Iran analyses Iranian politics from a unique perspective, one that focuses

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