If the United Nations meets its deadline, we should be living in a 'drug-free world'by 2008.
Within the UN there is a large bureaucracy that monitors trends in the production and …

This book presents a cultural history of modern Iran from the point of view of Shiraz, a city
famous for its poetry and its traditions of scholarship. Exploring the relationship among …

In the story of Rostam and Sohrab in the Shahnameh, the poet Ferdowsi a millennium ago
gives us a tale of a tragic quest, which contains subtle allusions to the complexities of Iranian …

Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905) was one of the key thinkers and reformers of modern Islam
who has influenced both liberal and fundamentalist Muslims today.'Abdul-Baha (1844-1921) …

For generations, God-related ideas and practices have intersected in expressions of shared
faiths, forms of worship, charity, and service, bringing disparate peoples eye to eye and side …

Abu al—I'Iasan Mirza, known as Shaykh al—Rais (18487 1920), has been called the poet
laureate of the lranian Con-stitutional Revolution (19054911). A prince, a cleric, a poet, and …

Modern Iran, once an important issue of rivalry between the Great Powers for influences,
resources and trade routes, was formed through a sequence of small and larger revolutions …

From the 1770s onwards, there was a struggle for the soul of Shiʿism in Iran–a struggle
over what the true nature of religion should be. On one side was the dominant Uṣūlī …

This paper discusses changing attitudes to the ancient Iranian past at the turn of the
nineteenth/twentieth centuries, through a study of the work of Fursat Shîrâzî, arguing for a …

The aim of this paper is to offer a glimpse into the Baha⁠ ʾi mercantile community in Iran
during the second half of the nineteenth century and its reformist and modernist attitudes …