20th Century

A Scholar for our Times: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Shahrokh Meskoob

By Abbas Milani & C. Ryan Perkins, editors In Biography & Memoir, Featured, and Non-Fiction Tagged In 20th Century, Books by Abbas Milani, Persian, Poetry, and Social Science.

$50.00

Pub. Date : March 21, 2022

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The Rebel Bandits of Tangestan

By Willem Floor In History, Non-Fiction, and Recent Titles Tagged In 20th Century, Bandits, Books by Willem Floor, History, Persian Gulf, Social Science, Tangestan, and Tangestani.

$60.00

Pub. Date : May 4, 2021

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Crowning Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity 1884-1914 – 2nd Edition

By Taj Al-Saltana, Edited by Abbas Amanat In Biography & Memoir and Featured Tagged In 19th Century, 20th Century, Books by Abbas Amanat, Constitutional Revolution, Feminism, Feminist, Harem, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Qajar, and Women.

$35.00

Pub. Date : December 14, 2020

“A Thousand and One Nights meets Raise the Red Lantern in this tale of growing up among royal wives and concubines in what is now Iran . . . .[read more>>]

Another Birth and Other Poems

By Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Hasan Javadi and Susan Sallée In Bilingual Featured, Bilingual Text, and Poetry Tagged In 20th Century, Books by Hasan Javadi, Poems, Poetry, and Poetry by Women.

$30.00

Pub. Date : March 24, 2010

Forugh Farrokhzad was born in Tehran in 1935 and died in a car crash at the age of 32…Fiercely honest, insightful, and often wonderfully lyrical, her work has earned her a secure place in the thousand-year tradition of illustrious Iranian poets.[read more>>]

History of Hospitals in Iran, 550–1950

By Willem Floor In Featured, History, and Non-Fiction Tagged In 19th Century, 20th Century, Books by Willem Floor, Health Care, Imam Reza Shrine Foundation, Medicine, and Urumiyeh.

$85.00

Pub. Date : 12/14/20

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Kermanshah: City and Province, 1800-1945

By Willem Floor In History, Non-Fiction, and Recent Titles Tagged In 19th Century, 20th Century, Books by Willem Floor, Kerbela, Mohajerin, Najaf, Ottomans, and World War I.

$150.00

Pub. Date : December 14, 2018

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When They Broke Down The Door: Poems

By Fatemeh Shams. Introduced and Translated by Dick Davis In Bilingual Featured, Bilingual Text, and Poetry Tagged In 20th Century, Books by Dick Davis, Poems, Poetry, Poetry by Women, and Women.

$25.00

The power of poetry to map the human heart has been a hallmark of Persian culture for at least a thousand years, and Fatemeh Shams wields it unforgettably.[read more>>]

Salar al-Dowleh: A Delusional Prince and Wannabe Shah

By Willem Floor In Biography & Memoir, History, Non-Fiction, Politics & Economics, and Recent Titles Tagged In 20th Century, Books by Willem Floor, Constitutional Period, Qajar, and Salar al-Dowleh.

$50.00

Pub. Date : Jun 11, 2018

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Awake: A Moslem Woman’s Rare Memoir of Her Life and Partnership with the Editor of Molla Nasreddin, the Most Influential Satirical Journal of the Caucasus and Iran, 1907–1931

By Hamideh Khanum Javanshir, Translated from the Azeri by Hasan Javadi & Willem Floor In Biography & Memoir and History Tagged In 20th Century, Agriculture, Azerbaijani, Books by Hasan Javadi, Books by Willem Floor, Cartoons, Constitutional Revolution, Education, Farming, Feminism, Feminist, Girls, Hamideh Khanum, Humor, Islam, Islamic, Medicine, Mirza Jalil Mamadqulizadeh, Molla Nasreddin, Moslem, Political, Qajar, Satire, Satirical, Sociolology, and Women.

$85.00

Pub. Date : Sep 6, 2016

The marriage between Hamideh Khanum, the daughter of a leading aristocratic Azerbaijani family, and Mirza Jalil Mamadqulizadeh, founder and editor of the renowned satirical journal Molla Nasreddin, was a union of like-minded spirits.[read more>>]