... to Middle Eastern immigrants. Through interviews and visual analysis of the New York Persian Day Parade, one of more than 180 annual ethnic parades in Manhattan, I track, analyze, and compare the use of space, signs, and performance to argue that Iranian American public events such as the parade offer...

...Mana Kia Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400–1800 Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 xvi, 399 pp., $99.00 (cloth) Duke University Press 2011 Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries...

... novelistic tradition present to the authors of this Iranian diaspora. I put the Persian novel in French into the context of the contemporary Persian literary system and then give a close reading of one novel to illustrate my point. I have chosen Sorour Kasmaï’s The Glass Cemetery ( Le cimeti”re de verre...

...Audrey Truschke This article presents the first in-depth textual analysis of the Razmnamah ( Book of War ), the Persian translation of the Mahabharata sponsored by the Mughal emperor Akbar in the late sixteenth century. I argue that the Razmnamah was a central literary work in the Mughal court...

...Mona Damluji As the most widely circulated cinematic portrait of Abadan under full administration of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), the AIOC film Persian Story offers an exceptional opportunity to examine the ways in which the British company linked the idea of modernity to the image...

...Sunil Sharma Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 - - The City of Beauties in Indo-Persian Poetic Landscape SUNIL...

...Talinn Grigor This essay traces the Persian artistic revival of two separate but interdependent communities: the Parsis of the British Raj and the reformist Muslims and Zoroastrians of Qajar Iran. The two communities, with their own distinct, though at times overlapping, art historical developments...

... the Persian Cosmopolis Usman Hamid and Pasha M. Khan W hen the early seventeenth- century Central Asian traveler Mah.m d b. Am r Wal Balk. h found himself shipwrecked, destitute, and imprisoned in Orissa, in the eastern reaches of the Mu-ghal empire, his future must have looked bleak. Because he had been...

... con- ference (Montreal) and the 2015 Association for the Study of Persianate Societies conference (Istanbul). I am grateful to the Mellon Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust for fellowships that made this work possible. Translations are my own unless noted. 1. For background on the migration, see...

... Khan, Tyson Patros, and participants in the Central Asia Workshop at UCLA for extensive readings and comments on various oral and written versions of this article. 1. See Alam, The Pursuit of Persian, 317 40, and Busch, Hidden in Plain View, 268. For the case of Persian and a critique...

... Segmented Feminization and the Decline of Neopatriarchy in GCC Countries of the Persian Gulf John Willoughby he labor markets of oil-rich Saudi...

...Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulleth, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 8i 2 (1991). The Persian Gaze and Women of the Occident Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi* following pages, I will focus on observations...

... the with power.however, It was, tribal ofOmani conquestmaintaining and the in tool indispensable ( power military their constituted corps Baluch Beatrice Nicolini Centuries Twentieth and Nineteenth during the The Baluch Role in the Persian Gulf...

... into an eschatological framework in which Fatimah is transformed from a gatherer of the tears of the mourners into the judge and intercessory authority of Muslim loyalty to the Ahl-e Bait on the Day of Judgment. This essay focuses on four aspects of Fatimah's mystical and intercessory powers in Indo-Persian Shiism: (1...

... process. Rather than view Iran and other Middle Eastern nations as problematically “late developers” of printing, the essay argues for a reframing of the process in terms of two distinct printing revolutions: Gutenberg's and Stanhope's. Duke University Press 2011 Persian Print and the Stanhope...

...Michael H. Fisher Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2002 - Persian Professor in Britain: Mirza Muhammad Ibrahim at the East India Company's College, 1826-44...

...Marral Shamshiri Abstract This article analyzes the material networks, connections, and solidarities formed between revolutionary Iranian and Arab organizations in the Persian Gulf in the 1970s. In the context of decolonization and the Cold War, it explores how the Iranian Left engaged...

...Thomas F. McDow This chapter reassesses Richard Burton's 1853 journey to Mecca and asks questions about the flexibility of identities in the Indian Ocean and Persianate worlds of the mid-nineteenth century. Often hailed or criticized by previous generations of scholars for his imperial vision...

...Mana Kia; Afshin Marashi Mana Kia and Afshin Marashi's introduction asks the main question that the articles in the special section “After the Persianate” endeavor to answer: How should we write the histories of societies that emerged from the Persianate ecumene in the nineteenth and twentieth...

...Mana Kia This article examines the figure of the Indian friend in late nineteenth-century Persian-language modernist writings, specifically those by Fath ‘Alī Ākhūndzādah, Jamāl al-Dīn “al-Afghānī,” and writers published in the Calcutta newspaper Habl al-Matīn . These writings drew on older...