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History

A History of Modern Iran
Ervand Abrahamian
ISBN-13: 9780521821391 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521528917 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2008
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The Cambridge History of Iran: Volume No. 7, From Nadir Shah to the Islamic Republic
P. Avery, G. R. G. Hambly, C. Melville, editors
ISBN-13: 9780521200950 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 1991
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Iran's First Revolution: Shi'ism and the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1909
Mangol Bayat
ISBN-13: 9780195068221 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 1991
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Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic
Lois Beck, Guity Nashat, editors
ISBN-13: 9780252071898 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2004
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The Cambridge History of Iran: Volume No. 5, The Saljuq and Mongol Periods
J. A. Boyle, editor
ISBN-13: 9780521069366 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 1968
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The History of Al-Tabari, Vol. 2: Prophets and Patriarchs
William M. Brinner, translator
ISBN-13: 9780873959216 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780887063138 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1986
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The History of Al-Tabari, Vol. 3: The Children of Israel
William M. Brinner, translator
ISBN-13: 9780791406878 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791406885 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1991
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Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran
Richard W. Bulliet
ISBN-13: 9780231148368 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780231148375 (paper)
Columbia University Press, 2009
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Iran in the Persian Gulf, 1820-1966, 6 volume set
A. Burdett, editor
ISBN-13: 9781852078102 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 2000
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Iran Political Developments, 1941-1946, 13 volume set
A. Burdett, editor
ISBN-13: 9781840971958 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 2008
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Iran: Political Diaries, 1881-1965, 14 volume set
R. M. Burrell, editor
ISBN-13: 9781852077105 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 1997
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The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran
Muhammad A. Dandamaev, Vladimir G. Lukonin; Translated by Philip L. Kohl
ISBN-10: 0521611911 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780521611916 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2004
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The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History
Touraj Daryaee, editor
ISBN-13: 9780199732159 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2012

Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity
Beate Dignas, Engelbert Winter
ISBN-13: 9780521849258 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521614078 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2007
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The History of Al-Tabari, Vol. 21: The Victory of the Marwanids A.D. 685-693/A.H. 66-73
Michael Fishbein, translator
ISBN-13: 9780791402214 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791402221 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1990
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The Cambridge History of Iran: Volume No. 1, The Land of Iran
W. B. Fisher, editor
ISBN-13: 9780521069359 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 1968
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The Cambridge History of Iran: Volume No. 4, The Period from the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs
R. N. Frye, editor
ISBN-13: 9780521200936 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 1975
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The Cambridge History of Iran: Volume No. 2, The Median and Achaemenian Periods
I. Gershevitch, editor
ISBN-13: 9780521200912 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 1985
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Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty
Ali Gheissari, Vali Nasr
ISBN-13: 9780195396966 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2009
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Resistance to the Shah: Landowners and Ulama in Iran
Mohammad Gholi
ISBN-10: 0813017319 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813017310 (cloth)
University Press of Florida, 2000

Great Britain and Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921-1941
Mohammad Gholi Majd
ISBN-10: 0813021111 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813021119 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813037202 (paper)
University Press of Florida, 2001

Al-Ghazali’s Philosophical Theology
Frank Griffel
ISBN-13: 9780195331622 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2009
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All in the Family: Absolutism, Revolution, and Democracy in Middle Eastern Monarchies
Michael Herb
ISBN-13: 9780791441671 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791441688 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1999
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The History of Al-Tabari, Vol. 26: The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate: Prelude to Revolution A.D. 738-745/A.H. 121-127
Carole Hillenbrand, translator
ISBN-13: 9780887068102 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780887068126 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1989
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The History of Al-Tabari, Vol. 15: The Crisis of the Early Caliphate: The Reign of 'Uthman A.D.644-656/A.H. 24-35
R. Stephen Humphreys, translator
ISBN-13: 9780791401545 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791401552 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1990
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The Cambridge History of Iran: Volume No. 6, The Timurid and Safavid Periods
Peter Jackson, Lawrence Lockhart, editors
ISBN-13: 9780521200943 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 1986
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The History of Al-Tabari, Vol. 13: The Conquest of Iraq, Southwestern Persia, and Egypt: The Middle Years of 'Umar's Caliphate A.D. 636-642/A.H. 15-21
Gautier H. A. Juynboll, translator
ISBN-13: 9780887068768 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780887068775 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1989
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The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran
Homa Katouzian
ISBN-13: 9780300121186 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780300169324 (paper)
Yale University Press, 2009
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Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran
Nikki Keddie author info
ISBN-10: 0300121059 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780300121056 (paper)
Yale University Press, 1981

Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran
Arash Khazeni
ISBN-13: 9780295989945 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780295989952 (paper)
University of Washington Press, 2010
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A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450-1700
Dina Le Gall
ISBN-13: 9780791462454 (cloth)
State University of New York Press, 2004
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Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran
Beatrice Manz
ISBN-13: 9780521865470 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 2007
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Power, Politics, and Religion in Timurid Iran
Beatrice Forbes Manz
ISBN-13: 9780521865470 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521153461 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780511267369
Cambridge University Press, 2007

Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940
Afshin Marashi
ISBN-13: 9780295987996 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780295988207 (paper)
University of Washington Press, 2008
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The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900
Rudi Matthee
ISBN-13: 9780691144443 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 2009
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Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800
Guity Nashat, Lois Beck, editors
ISBN-13: 9780252071218 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2003
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The Rise and Fall of the Shah: Iran from Autocracy to Religious Rule
Amin Saikal
ISBN-13: 9780691140407 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 2009
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Iran Under the Safavids
Roger Savory
ISBN-13: 9780521042512 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2007
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The Iran-Iraq Border, 1840-1958, 11 volume set
R. Schofield, editor
ISBN-13: 9781852071608 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 1989
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The History of Al-Tabari, Vol. 14: The Conquest of Iran A.D. 641-643/A.H. 21-23
G. Rex Smith, translator
ISBN-13: 9780791412930 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791412947 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1994
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Revolution and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran
Nader Sohrabi
ISBN-13: 9780521198295 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781139210508
Cambridge University Press, 2011

Between Foreigners and Shi‘is: Nineteenth-Century Iran and its Jewish Minority
Daniel Tsadik
ISBN-10: 0804754586 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804754583 (cloth)
Stanford University Press, 2007
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Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces
Steven R. Ward
ISBN-13: 9781589012585 (cloth)
Georgetown University Press, 2009
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The Cambridge History of Iran: Volume No. 3, The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanid Periods: Part No. 1
E. Yarshater, editor
ISBN-13: 9780521200929 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 1983
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The Cambridge History of Iran: Volume No. 3, The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanid Periods: Part No. 2
E. Yarshater, editor
ISBN-13: 9780521246934 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 1983
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The Islamic Revolution and Contemporary Politics

Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran
Ervand Abrahamian
ISBN-10: 0530218663 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780520218666 (paper)
University of California Press, 1999

A Critical Introduction to Khomeini
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, editor
ISBN-13: 9781107012677 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781107670624 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781107722682
Cambridge University Press, 2014

The Iranian Constitutional Revolution
Janet Afary
ISBN-13: 9780231103510 (paper)
Columbia University Press, 1996
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Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism
Reza Afshari
ISBN-13: 9780812236057 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780812221398 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001

Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran
Shahrough Akhavi
ISBN-13: 9780873954082 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780873954563 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1980
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Revolution and Economic Transition: The Iranian Experience
Hooshang Amirahmadi
ISBN-13: 9780791405109 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1990
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Dynamics of the Iranian Revolution: The Pahlavis' Triumph and Tragedy
Jahangir Amuzegar
ISBN-13: 9780791407325 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1991
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Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change
Ali M. Ansari
ISBN-10: 1862031177 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781862031173 (paper)
Brookings Institution Press, 2001

The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi’ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890
Said Amir Arjomand
ISBN-13: 9780226027845 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, 2010

The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran
Said Amir Arjomand
ISBN-13: 9780195042580 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 1989
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After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors
Sa?d Amir Arjomand
ISBN-13: 9780195391794 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780199891948 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2009
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After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors
Saïd Amir Arjomand
ISBN-13: 9780195391794 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2009

The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran
Saïd Amir Arjomand, Nathan J. Brown, editors
ISBN-13: 9781438445977 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781438445960 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781438445984
State University of New York Press, 2013

Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic
Michael Axworthy
ISBN-13: 9780199322268 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2013

The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World
Mohammed Ayoob
ISBN-13: 9780472099719 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780472069712 (paper)
University of Michigan Press, 2007
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Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran
Bahman Baktiari
ISBN-10: 0813014611 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813014616 (cloth)
University Press of Florida, 1996

Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn Minority
Asef Bayat
ISBN-10: 0804755957 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780804755955 (paper)
Stanford University Press, 2007
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Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran
Daniel Brumberg
ISBN-10: 0226077586 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780226077581 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, 2001
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Iran's Political, Demographic, and Economic Vulnerabilities
Keith Crane, Rollie Lal, Jeffrey Martini
ISBN-13: 9780833043047 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2008
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Urban Unrest in the Middle East: A Comparative Study of Informal Networks in Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon
Guilain Denoeux
ISBN-13: 9780791415245 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1993
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Using Social Media to Gauge Iranian Public Opinion and Mood After the 2009 Election
Sara Beth Elson, Douglas Yeung, Parisa Roshan, S. R. Bohandy, Alireza Nader, ,
ISBN-13: 9780833059727 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2012

The Iranian Revolution: Its Global Impact
John L. Esposito
ISBN-10: 0813010179 (paper)
University Press of Florida, 1990

Contemporary Iran: Economy, Society, Politics
Ali Gheissari
ISBN-13: 9780195378498 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2009
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Rules and Rights in the Middle East: Democracy, Law, and Society
Ellis Goldberg, Resat Kasaba, Joel S. Migdal, editors
ISBN-10: 0295972874 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780295972879 (paper)
University of Washington Press, 1993
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Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village
Mary Elaine Hegland
ISBN-13: 9780804775670 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804775687 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780804788854
Stanford University Press, 2013

Middle East Authoritarianisms: Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran
Steven Heydemann, Reinoud Leenders, editors
ISBN-13: 9780804783019 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780804784351
Stanford University Press, 2013

Iran's Intellectual Revolution
Mehran Kamrava
ISBN-13: 9780521725187 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2008
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Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution, Updated Edition
Nikki R. Keddie, with a section by Yann Richard author info
ISBN-10: 0300121059 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780300121056 (paper)
Yale University Press, 2006
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Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace
Arang Keshavarzian
ISBN-13: 9780521866187 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521103305 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2007
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Political Islam, Iran, and the Enlightenment: Philosophies of Hope and Despair
Ali Mirsepassi
ISBN-13: 9780521768825 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521745901 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2010

Understanding Shiite Leadership: The Art of the Middle Ground in Iran and Lebanon
Shaul Mishal, Ori Goldberg
ISBN-13: 9781107046382 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781139899345
Cambridge University Press, May 2014

Class, Politics, and Ideology in the Iranian Revolution
Mansoor Moaddel
ISBN-13: 9780231078672 (paper)
Columbia University Press, 1994
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The Next Supreme Leader: Succession in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Alireza Nader, David E. Thaler, S.R. Bohandy
ISBN-13: 9780833051332 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2011
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The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran
Arzoo Oslanloo
ISBN-13: 9780691135472 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780691135472 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 2009
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Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics: From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad
Ali Rahnema
ISBN-13: 9781107005181 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521182218 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781139065993
Cambridge University Press, 2011

Evolving Iran: An Introduction to Politics and Problems in the Islamic Republic
Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan
ISBN-13: 9781589019782 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781589019799
Georgetown University Press, 2013

Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty: Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia
Benjamin Smith
ISBN-13: 9780801444395 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780801472770 (paper)
Cornell University Press, 2007

Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
Shahla Talebi
ISBN-13: 9780804772013 (cloth)
Stanford University Press, 2011

Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey: The Paradox of Moderation
Güne? Murat Tezcür
ISBN-13: 9780292721975 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780292728837 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2010

Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads: An Exploration of Iranian Leadership Dynamics
David E. Thaler, Alireza Nader, Shahram Chubin, Jerrold D. Green,, Charlotte Lynch, Frederic Wehrey
ISBN-13: 9780833047731 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2010
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A Guerilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy, and the Fadai Period of National Liberation in Iran, 1971-1979
Peyman Vahabzadeh
ISBN-13: 9780815632436 (cloth)
Syracuse University Press, 2010

Rise of the Pasdaran: Assessing the Domestic Roles of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Frederic Wehrey, Jerrold D. Green, Brian Nichiporuk, Alireza, Nader, Lydia Hansell, Rasool Nafisi, S. R. Bohandy
ISBN-13: 9780833046208 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2009
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The Rise of the Pasdaran: Assessing the Domestic Roles of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
Frederic Wehrey, Jerrold D. Green, Brian Nichiporuk, Alireza, Nader, Lydia Hansell, Rasool Nafisi, S. R. Bohandy
ISBN-13: 9780833046208 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2009
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International Relations

     General
     Regional
     The United States

International Relations: General

Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
ISBN-13: 9780231700467 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780231700474 (paper)
Columbia University Press/Columbia / Hurst, 2008
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The History of the British Petroleum Company; Volume 2, The Anglo-Iranian Years 1928–1954
J. H. Bamberg
ISBN-13: 9780521117593 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Western Dominance and Political Islam: Challenge and Response
Khalid Bin Sayeed
ISBN-10: 0791422658 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791422656 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791422656 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1994

Iran's Security Policy in the Post-Revolutionary Era
Daniel L. Byman, Shahram Chubin, Anoushiravan Ehteshami Jerrold Green author info
ISBN-10: 0833029711 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780833029713 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2001

Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network
Gordon Corera
ISBN-13: 9780195375237 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2009
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Iran and the Bomb
Therese Delpech
ISBN-13: 9780231700078 (paper)
Columbia University Press/Columbia / Hurst, 2009
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Coping with Iran: Confrontation, Containment, or Engagement? A Conference Report
James Dobbins, Sarah Harting, Dalia Dassa Kaye
ISBN-13: 9780833041876 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2007
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Iran and the Cold War: The Azerbaijan Crisis of 1946
Louise Fawcett
ISBN-13: 9780521104739 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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China and Iran
John W. Garver
ISBN-13: 9780295986319 (paper)
University of Washington Press, 2006
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Domestic Trends in the United States, China, and Iran: Implications for U.S. Navy Strategic Planning
John Gordon, IV, Robert W. Button, Karla J. Cunningham, Toy I. Reid, Irv Blickstein, Peter A. Wilson, Andreas Goldthau
ISBN-13: 9780833045621 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2008
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The United Nations, Iran, and Iraq: How Peacemaking Changed
Cameron R. Hume
ISBN-10: 0253328748 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780253328748 (cloth)
Indiana University Press, 1994

Building Security in the Persian Gulf
Robert E. Hunter
ISBN-13: 9780833049186 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2010
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The Politics of Secularism in International Relations
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Muhammad Qasim Zaman, editors
ISBN-13: 9780691134666 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781400828012
Princeton University Press, 2007
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Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics
Nikki R. Keddie, Rudi Matthee, editors author info
ISBN-10: 0295982063 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780295982069 (paper)
University of Washington Press, 2002
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The Middle East: The Changing Strategic Environment
F. Stephen Larrabee
ISBN-13: 9780833039507 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2006
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The Challenge of Nuclear-Armed Regional Adversaries
David Ochmanek, Lowell H. Schwartz
ISBN-13: 9780833042323 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2008
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Independence without Freedom: Iran's Foreign Policy
R.K. Ramazani
ISBN-13: 9780813934983 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780813934990
University of Virginia Press, 2013

Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs
Ray Takeyh
ISBN-13: 9780195327847 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780199754106 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2009
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The Iraq Effect: The Middle East After the Iraq War
Frederic Wehrey, Dalia Dassa Kaye, Jessica Watkins, Jeffrey, Martini, Robert A. Guffey
ISBN-13: 9780833047885 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2010
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International Relations: Regional

Ideals and Realities of Regional Integration in the Muslim World: The Case of the Economic Cooperation Organization
Ejaz Akram
ISBN-13: 9780195476354 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2009
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Life After the Soviet Union: The Newly Independent Republics of the Transcaucasus and Central Asia
Nozar Alaolmolki
ISBN-13: 9780791451373 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791451380 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2001
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The Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East: Opacity, Theory, and Reality, 1960-1991 — An Israeli Perspective
Shlomo Aronson, with Oded Brosh
ISBN-13: 9780791412084 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1992
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Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
ISBN-13: 9780691004976 (cloth)
Princeton University Press, 2000
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Israel and Iran: A Dangerous Rivalry
Dalia Dassa Kaye, Alireza Nader, Parisa Roshan
ISBN-13: 9780833058607 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2011

Turkish-Iranian Relations in a Changing Middle East
F. Stephen Larrabee, Alireza Nader, ,
ISBN-13: 9780833080110 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2013

Institutions and the Politics of Survival in Jordan: Domestic Responses to External Challenges, 1988-2001
Russell E. Lucas
ISBN-13: 9780791464458 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791464465 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2005
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Iran's Long Reach: Iran as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World
Suzanne Maloney author info
ISBN-13: 9781601270337 (paper)
United States Institute of Peace Press, 2008
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Iranian Perspectives on the Iran-Iraq War
Farhang Rajaee
ISBN-10: 081301476X (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813014760 (cloth)
University Press of Florida, 1993
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The Iran-Iraq War: The Politics of Aggression
Farhang Rajaee
ISBN-10: 0813011760 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0813011779 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780813011769 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813011776 (paper)
University Press of Florida, 1997
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Iranophobia: The Logic of an Israeli Obsession
Haggai Ram
ISBN-10: 0804760683 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780804760683 (paper)
Stanford University Press, 2009
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Borders and Brethren: Iran and the Challenge of Azerbaijani Identity
Brenda Shaffer
ISBN-10: 0262194775 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780262194778 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780262692779 (paper)
MIT Press, 2002

Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Shibley Telhami
ISBN-10: 080143940X (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0801487455 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780801439407 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780801487453 (paper)
Cornell University Press, 2002
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Dangerous But Not Omnipotent: Exploring the Reach and Limitations of Iranian Power in the Middle East
Frederic Wehrey, David E. Thaler, Nora Bensahel, Kim Cragin,, Jerrold D. Green, Dalia Dassa Kaye, Nadia Oweidat, Jennifer Li
ISBN-13: 9780833045546 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2009
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Saudi-Iranian Relations Since the Fall of Saddam: Rivalry, Cooperation, and Implications for U.S. Policy
Frederic Wehrey, Theodore Karasik, Alireza Nader, Jeremy Ghez, Lydia Hansell, Robert A. Guffey
ISBN-13: 9780833046574 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2009
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International Relations: The United States

The United States and the Middle East: A Search for New Perspectives
Hooshang Amirahmadi, editor
ISBN-13: 9780791412268 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1992
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The Great Satan vs. the Mad Mullahs: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other
William O. Beeman
ISBN-13: 9780226041476 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, 2008
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The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy Of American-Iranian Relations
James Bill
ISBN-10: 0300044127 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780300044126 (paper)
Yale University Press, 1989

Anticipating a Nuclear Iran: Challenges for U.S. Security
Jacquelyn K. Davis, Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr.
ISBN-13: 9780231166225 (cloth)
Columbia University Press, 2013

Iran's Nuclear Future: Critical U.S. Policy Choices
Lynn E. Davis, Jeffrey Martini, Alireza Nader, Dalia Dassa Kaye, James T. Quinlivan, Paul Steinberg
ISBN-13: 9780833051752 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2011

Coping with a Nuclearizing Iran
James Dobbins, Alireza Nader, Dalia Dassa Kaye, Frederic Wehrey
ISBN-13: 9780833058652 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2011

Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam
David Farber
ISBN-13: 9780691127590 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781400826209
Princeton University Press, 2006
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The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq: A Policy Conundrum
Jeremiah Goulka, Lydia Hansell, Elizabeth Wilke, Judith Larson
ISBN-13: 9780833047014 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2009
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Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President
Richard N. Haass, Martin S. Indyk, et al. author info
ISBN-13: 9780815738695 (paper)
Brookings Institution Press, 2008
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Which Lessons Matter?: American Foreign Policy Decision Making in the Middle East, 1979-1987
Christopher Hemmer
ISBN-10: 0791446492 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0791446506 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780791446492 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791446508 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2000
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Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War
Robert Jervis
ISBN-13: 9780801447853 (cloth)
Cornell University Press, 2010
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Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
Rashid Khalidi
ISBN-13: 9780807003107 (cloth)
Beacon Press, 2009
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The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power after the Iran-Contra Affair
Harold Hongju Koh
ISBN-10: 0300044933 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780300044935 (paper)
Yale University Press, 1990
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Groupthink or Deadlock: When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors?
Paul A. Kowert
ISBN-13: 9780791452493 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791452509 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2002
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Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal Reports; Volume 37, 2003
Karen Lee, editor
ISBN-13: 9780521867146 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 2006
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Reshaping Rogue States: Preemption, Regime Change, and US Policy toward Iran, Iraq, and North Korea
Alexander T. J. Lennon, Camille Eiss, editors
ISBN-10: 0262621908 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780262621908 (paper)
MIT Press, 2004
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Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling the Ghosts of History
John W. Limbert author info
ISBN-13: 9781601270443 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781601270436 (paper)
United States Institute of Peace Press, 2009
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A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran
Trita Parsi
ISBN-13: 9780300169362 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780300192360 (paper)
Yale University Press, 2012

Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran
Kenneth M. Pollack, Daniel L. Byman, Martin S. Indyk, Suzanne Maloney, Michael E. O'Hanlon, and Bruce O. Riedel author info
ISBN-13: 9780815703419 (paper)
Brookings Institution Press, 2009
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Containing Iran: Strategies for Addressing the Iranian Nuclear Challenge
Robert Reardon
ISBN-13: 9780833076311 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2012
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Democratic Transition and Human Rights: Perspectives on U.S. Foreign Policy
Sara Steinmetz
ISBN-13: 9780791414330 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791414347 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1994
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The Iran Primer: Power, Politics, and U.S. Policy
Robin Wright, editor
ISBN-13: 9781601270849 (paper)
United States Institute of Peace Press, 2010
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Society and Culture

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Society and Culture: General

Being Modern In Iran
Fariba Adelkhah
ISBN-13: 9780231119412 (paper)
Columbia University Press, 2004
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Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution
Niki Akhavan
ISBN-13: 9780813561936 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813561929 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780813561943
Rutgers University Press, 2013

Saffron Sky: A Life between Iran and America
Gelareh Asayesh
ISBN-13: 9780807072110 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2000
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A Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East
Navtej Dhillon, Tarik Yousef, editors author info
ISBN-13: 9780815703143 (paper)
Brookings Institution Press, 2009
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Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century
Ali Gheissari
ISBN-13: 9780292728042 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1997

Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East
Fatma Muge Gocek, editor
ISBN-13: 9780791451977 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791451984 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2002
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Understanding Iran
Jerrold D. Green, Frederic Wehrey, Charles Wolf, Jr.
ISBN-13: 9780833045584 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2009
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Behind the Veil: An American Woman’s Memoir of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
Debra Johanyak
ISBN-13: 9781931968409 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781931968409 (paper)
University of Akron Press, 2006
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Young and Defiant in Tehran
Shahram Khosravi
ISBN-13: 9780812240399 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780812220681 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007
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Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies
Zachary Lockman, editor
ISBN-13: 9780791416655 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791416662 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1993
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Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity to the Modern Era
D. T. Potts
ISBN-13: 9780199330799 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, April 2014

Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolution Iran
Roxanne Varzi
ISBN-13: 9780822337096 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822337218 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2006
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Social Change in Iran: An Eyewitness Account of Dissent, Defiance, and New Movements for Rights
Behzad Yaghmaian
ISBN-13: 9780791452110 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791452127 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2002
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Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran
David N. Yaghoubian
ISBN-13: 9780815633594 (cloth)
Syracuse University Press, 2014

My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices
Lila Azam Zanganeh
ISBN-10: 0807004634 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807004630 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2005
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Society and Culture: Religious Life

Martyrs of Karbala: Shi’i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran
Kamran Scot Aghaie
ISBN-13: 9780295984551 (paper)
University of Washington Press, 2004
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Authority and Political Culture in Shi'ism
Said Amir Arjomand, editor
ISBN-13: 9780887066382 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780887066399 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1988
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The Political Dimensions of Religion
Said Amir Arjomand, editor
ISBN-13: 9780791415573 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791415580 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1993
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Studies in Religious Fundamentalism
Lionel Caplan, editor
ISBN-13: 9780887065187 (cloth)
State University of New York Press, 1988
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The Throne Carrier of God: The Life and Thought of 'Ala' ad-dawla as-Simnani
Jamal J. Elias
ISBN-13: 9780791426111 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791426128 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1995
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The Future of Islam
John L. Esposito
ISBN-13: 9780195165210 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2010
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
John L. Esposito
ISBN-13: 9780195305135 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2009
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Witches, Whores, and Sorcerers: The Concept of Evil in Early Iran
S.K. Mendoza Forrest
ISBN-13: 9780292726871 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780292747678 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2011

Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education
Robert W. Hefner, Muhammad Qasim Zaman, editors
ISBN-13: 9780691129327 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780691129334 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 2006
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Crescent and Dove: Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam
Qamar-ul Huda, editor
ISBN-13: 9781601270603 (paper)
United States Institute of Peace Press, 2010
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Islam in Practice: Religious Beliefs in a Persian Village
Reinhold Loeffler
ISBN-13: 9780887066795 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1988
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Islam in Iran
I. P. Petrushevsky, Hubert Evans, translator
ISBN-13: 9780887060700 (cloth)
State University of New York Press, 1985
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Islam: A Very Short Introduction
Malise Ruthven
ISBN-10: 0192853899 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780192853899 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2000
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Religious Minorities in Iran
Eliz Sanasarian
ISBN-10: 0521029740 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780521029742 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2006
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The Wisdom of the Mystic East: Suhrawardi and Platonic Orientalism
John Walbridge
ISBN-13: 9780791450512 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780791450529 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2001
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Society and Culture: Gender and Sexuality

Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism
Janet Afary, Kevin B. Anderson
ISBN-13: 9780226007854 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226007861 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780226007878
University of Chicago Press, 2005
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Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
Janet Afary
ISBN-13: 9780521898461 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521727082 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Women, State, and Ideology: Studies from Africa and Asia
Haleh Afshar, editor
ISBN-13: 9780887063947 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 1987
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Veiled Employment: Islamism and the Political Economy of Women’s Employment in Iran
Roksana Bahramitash, Hadi Salehi Esfahani, editors
ISBN-13: 9780815632139 (cloth)
Syracuse University Press, 2011
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Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender
Beshara Doumani, editor
ISBN-13: 9780791456804 (paper)
State University of New York Press, 2003
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Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
ISBN-13: 9780195308860 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780195308877 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2011

Women in the Middle East: Past and Present
Nikki R. Keddie author info
ISBN-10: 0691128634 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780691128634 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 2006
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Passionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution
Pardis Mahdavi
ISBN-10: 0804758565 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780804758567 (cloth)
Stanford University Press, 2009
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Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement
Farzaneh Milani
ISBN-13: 9780815632788 (cloth)
Syracuse University Press, 2011

Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
ISBN-13: 9780691010045 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 1999

Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran
Amy Motlagh
ISBN-13: 9780804775892 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780804778183
Stanford University Press, 2011

Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran
Nima Naghibi
ISBN-13: 9780816647590 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780816647606 (paper)
University of Minnesota Press, 2007
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Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
Afsaneh Najmabadi
ISBN-13: 9780822355434 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822355571 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2013

Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling
Hamideh Sedghi
ISBN-13: 9780521835817 (cloth)
Cambridge University Press, 2007
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Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran: The Life and Legacy of Popular Iranian Female Artists
Kamran Talattof
ISBN-13: 9780815632245 (cloth)
Syracuse University Press, 2011

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Arts, Literature, and Language

The World of Persian Literary Humanism
Hamid Dabashi
ISBN-13: 9780674066717 (cloth)
Harvard University Press, 2012

Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry
Michael M. J. Fischer
ISBN-13: 9780822332855 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822332985 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2004
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In a Persian Mirror: Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction
M.R Ghanoonparvar
ISBN-13: 9780292727618 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1993

Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran
Fatemeh Keshavarz
ISBN-13: 9780807831090 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807859575 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2007
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Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City
John W. Limbert author info
ISBN-13: 9780295983912 (paper)
University of Washington Press, 2004
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The Bathhouse: A Novel
Farnoosh Moshiri
ISBN-13: 9780807083574 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2003
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Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
Negar Mottahedeh
ISBN-13: 9780822342601 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822342755 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2008
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A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 1: The Artisanal Era, 1897–1941
Hamid Naficy
ISBN-13: 9780822347545 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822347750 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2011

A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2: The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978
Hamid Naficy
ISBN-13: 9780822347552 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822347743 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2011

A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984
Hamid Naficy
ISBN-13: 9780822348658 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822348771 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2012

A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010
Hamid Naficy
ISBN-13: 9780822348665 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822348788 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2012

Women’s Autobiography in Contemporary Iran
Afsaneh Najmabadi
ISBN-13: 9780932885050 (paper)
Harvard University Press, 1991

Barriers to the Broad Dissemination of Creative Works in the Arab World
Lowell H. Schwartz, Todd C. Helmus, Dalia Dassa Kaye, and Nadia Oweidat
ISBN-13: 9780833047304 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2009
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Exiled Memories: Stories of the Iranian Diaspora
Zohreh T. Sullivan
ISBN-10: 1566398436 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781566398428 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781566398435 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781439906415
Temple University Press, 2001

The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival
Yasser Tabbaa
ISBN-10: 0295981253 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0295981334 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780295981338 (paper)
University of Washington Press, 2001
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Forbidden: Poems from Iran and Its Exiles
Sholeh Wolpé, editor
ISBN-13: 9781611860344 (paper)
Michigan State University Press, 2012

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