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The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature, Kamran Talattof, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000, 250 pp., cloth, $ 49.95; paper $24.95.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 458-463
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Dūr az khānah, Mehri Yalfani, Bethesda, Maryland: Ibex Publishers, 1998, ISBN 0–93647–87–2, 307 pp.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 224-226
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Ottoman and Persian Odysseys, James Morier, Creator of Haiji Baba of Ispahan, and His Brothers, Henry Mckenzie Johnston, London: British Academic Press, 1998.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 226-228
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To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America, Tara Bahrampour, New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1999, 361 pages, $24.00.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 463-466
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Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1783–1925, edited by Layla S Diba with Maryam Ekhtiar, I. B. Tauris in association with the Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1998, 296 pp., numerous illustrations, mostly in color.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 228-231
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At the Wall of the Almighty, Farnoosh Moshiri, New York: Interlink Books, 2000, 495 pp., $16.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 466-470
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Princes, Poets and Paladins: Islamic and Indian paintings from the Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan, Sheila R. Canby, London: British Museum Press, 1998, ISBN 0–7141–1483–9, 192 pages, 150 illustrations in color and 7 in black-and-white, 2 maps, index.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 231-234
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La Civiltà Timuride come Fenomeno Internationale, Volume I: Stori—I Timuridi e l'Occidente, Volume II: Letteratura—Arte (i.e. Oriente Moderno)Rivista d'informazione e di studi per la diffusione della conoscenza della cultura dell'oriente supratutto musulmano—numeri monografici, Michele Bernardini, ed., Rome, 1996, Nuova serie XV/LXXVI, no.2, 727 pp.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 470-477
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Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World, Anthony Shay, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999, Bibliotheca Iranica Performing Arts Series No. 5, ISBN: 1–56859–083–0, 245 pp., 16 figures, bibliography, index.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 234-236
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A Fiscal History of Iran in the Safavid and Qajar Periods, 1500–1925, Willem Floor, New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 1998, ix, 573 pp., ISBN 0–933273–29–0.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 477-478
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Supplementary Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1966–1998, Muhammad Isa Waley, London: The British Library, 1998, British Library Oriental and India Office Collections, ISBN 0 7123 46147, 114 pp., indexes, £30.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 236-238
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Half the World: the Social Architecture of Safavid Isfahan, 1590–1722, Stephen P. Blake, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999 Islamic Art and Architecture Series, no. 9., xix + 206 pp. including plates, maps, plans, charts, appendix, bibliography, and index. Cloth.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 478-482
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Pouvoir et succession en Iran: Les premiers Qâjâr 1726–1834, Hormoz Ebrahimnejad, (Moyen Orient & Océan Indien, 12), Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999, ISBN 2–7384–8915-X, 332 pp., 180 FF.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 482-485
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Ancient Persia: From 550 BC to 650 AD, Josef Wiesehöfer, trans. Azizeh Azodi, London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1996, xiv, 329 pp., 32 pls., 4 maps.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 238-240
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The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Persia: New Light on the Parthian and Sasanian Empires, Vesta Sarkhosh. Curtis, Robert Hillenbrand, and J.M. Rogers, London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, in association with the British Institute of Persian Studies, 1998, 191 pp., map, illustrations, $69.95.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 240-242
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Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804–1946, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 0–691–00497–8, xv + 304 pp. including illustrations, glossary, chronology, notes, bibliography, and index.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 486-488
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Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety, Gavin R.G. Hambly, ed., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, 566 pp., bibliography, index.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 242-245
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State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826–1863), Christine Noelle, Surrey, England: Curzon, 1997, ISBN 0–7007–0629–1, xxiv + 439 pp. (glossary, appendices [maps, genealogical charts], bibliography, index), hardback, $75.00.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 488-492
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For God, Mammon and Country: A Nineteenth-Century Persian Merchant, Haj Mohammad Hasan Amin al-Zarb (1834–1898), Shireen Mahdavi, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 492-498
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The Fall of Amir Chupan and the Decline of the Ilkhanate 1327–37: A Decade of Discord in Mongol Iran, Charles Melville, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1999, Papers on Inner Asia no. 30. ISSN 0893–1860 90 pages including bibliography, index, and 5 tables, $4.50 within the U.S., $5.50 or $7.55 for overseas.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 245-246
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