Iranian Studies
Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies
EDITOR
Homa Katouzian, University of Oxford, UK
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Roham Alvandi (History), London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Dominic Brookshaw (Literature and Culture), Stanford University, USA
Hossein Shahidi (Social Science), Jordan Media Institute, Amman, Jordan
BOOK REVIEW EDITORS
Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (History), University of Manchester, UK
Cyrus Schayegh (Social Science), Princeton University, USA
Rivanne Sandler (Literature and Culture), University of Toronto, Canada
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Shahrough Akhavi, University of South Carolina, USA; Abbas Amanat, Yale University, USA;
Ahmad Ashraf, Columbia University, USA; Ali Banuazizi, Boston College, USA; Houchang
Esfandiar Chehabi, Boston University, USA; Juan Cole, University of Michigan, USA; Farhad
Daftary, Institute of Isma‘ili Studies, UK; Stephen Dale, Ohio State University, USA; Richard
Davis, Ohio State University, USA; Mansoureh Ettehadieh, Tehran University, Iran; Willem Floor,
Washington, USA; Bert Fragner, Institut für Iranistik, Austria; John Gurney, University of Oxford,
UK; William Hanaway, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Edmund Herzig, University of Oxford,
UK; Robert Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh, UK; Bernard Hourcade, CNRS, France;
Farhad Kazemi, New York University, USA; Paul Luft, University of Durham, UK; Robert
McChesney, New York University, USA; Vanessa Martin, University of London, UK; Rudi Matthee,
University of Maryland, USA; Charles Melville, University of Cambridge, UK; Nasrin Rahimieh,
UC Irvine, USA; Reza Sheikholeslami, University of Oxford, UK; Maria E. Subtelny, University of
Toronto, Canada; Ehsan Yarshater, Columbia University, USA.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Fariba Adelkhah, CERI/Sciences-Po, France; Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara,
USA; Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Ali
Banuazizi, Boston College, USA; Hossein Bashirieh, Tehran University, Iran; Stephanie Cronin,
University of Oxford, UK; Elton Daniel, University of Hawai'i, USA; Touraj Daryaee, University of
California, Irvine, USA; Masashi Haneda, University of Tokyo, Japan; Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet,
University of Pennsylvania, USA; Franklin Lewis, University of Chicago, USA; Mina Marefat,
Library of Congress, USA; Sayed Askar Mousavi, Ministry of Higher Education, Afghanistan;
Negin Nabavi, Montclair State University, USA; Hamid Naficy, Northwestern University, USA;
Mohammad Nafissi, London Metropolitan University, UK; Jürgen Paul, Martin-Luther-Universität,
Halle, Germany; Rahim Shayegan, UCLA, USA; Marta Simidchieva, York University, Canada;
Pricilla Soucek, New York University, USA; Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto,
Canada; Soraya Tremayne, University of Oxford, UK.