I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationThe Safavid era is of special signific...

Located in the Straits of Hormuz, the island of Qeshm has had a tumultuous history. Qeshm: The Hi...

Cette étude présente une analyse socio-économique de l'industrie textile en Perse de 1500 à 1925....

Links with the Hinterland focuses on two related themes: the importance of what goes on in a port...

The Chinese invented papermaking, which by the 8th century had reached the Muslim world in Samark...

This comprehensive and richly detailed study by renowned scholar Willem Floor is the culmination ...

In Russian Sources on Iran, 1719-1748, polyglot scholar Willem Floor brings together annotated tr...

Only 100 years ago the main means of transportation in Iran was by quadruped. Transportation & Te...

Originally, Khorshid Khanom or 'Sun Lady,' was the symbol of the Mother Goddess, but later she be...

The renowned Russian Iranist Ilya Pavlovich Petrushevsky devoted his career to the study of agric...

Hamideh Khanum Javanshir grew up in a traditional Azerbaijani society where women were relegated ...

Bandar Abbas, once a small fishing village, became the gateway port for Iran after Shah Abbas def...