In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons—its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear program, and controversial role in the Middle East—but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than can be gleaned from the news. This authoritative and comprehensive history of Iran, written by Homa Katouzian, an acclaimed expert, covers the entire history of the area from the ancient Persian Empire to today’s Iranian state.
Writing from an Iranian rather than a European perspective, Katouzian integrates the significant cultural and literary history of Iran with its political and social history. Some of the greatest poets of human history wrote in Persian—among them Rumi, Omar Khayyam, and Saadi—and Katouzian discusses and occasionally quotes their work. In his thoughtful analysis of Iranian society, Katouzian argues that the absolute and arbitrary power traditionally enjoyed by Persian/Iranian rulers has resulted in an unstable society where fear and short-term thinking dominate. A magisterial history, this book also serves as an excellent background to the role of Iran in the contemporary world.

The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran

History

Katouzian, Homa

Ancient Civilizations

Yale University Press

In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons—its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear program, and controversial role in the Middle East—but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than can be gleaned from the news. This authoritative and comprehensive history of Iran, written by Homa Katouzian, an acclaimed expert, covers the entire history of the area from the ancient Persian Empire to today’s Iranian state. 
Writing from an Iranian rather than a European perspective, Katouzian integrates the significant cultural and literary history of Iran with its political and social history. Some of the greatest poets of human history wrote in Persian—among them Rumi, Omar Khayyam, and Saadi—and Katouzian discusses and occasionally quotes their work. In his thoughtful analysis of Iranian society, Katouzian argues that the absolute and arbitrary power traditionally enjoyed by Persian/Iranian rulers has resulted in an unstable society where fear and short-term thinking dominate. A magisterial history, this book also serves as an excellent background to the role of Iran in the contemporary world.

Ideology and Method in Economics

Ideology and method in economics (Macmillan new studies in economics)

Business & Money

Economics

Macmillan

Palgrave HE UK

Visit the Unspun website which includes Table of Contents and the Introduction. The World Wide Web has cut a wide path through our daily lives. As claims of "the Web changes everything" suffuse print media, television, movies, and even presidential campaign speeches, just how thoroughly do the users immersed in this new technology understand it? What, exactly, is the Web changing? And how might we participate in or even direct Web-related change? Intended for readers new to studying the Internet, each chapter in Unspun addresses a different aspect of the "web revolution"--hypertext, multimedia, authorship, community, governance, identity, gender, race, cyberspace, political economy, and ideology--as it shapes and is shaped by economic, political, social, and cultural forces. The contributors particularly focus on the language of the Web, exploring concepts that are still emerging and therefore unstable and in flux. Unspun demonstrates how the tacit assumptions behind this rhetoric must be examined if we want to really know what we are saying when we talk about the Web. Unspun will help readers more fully understand and become critically aware of the issues involved in living, as we do, in a wired society. Contributors include: Jay Bolter, Sean Cubitt, Jodi Dean, Dawn Dietrich, Cynthia Fuchs, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Timothy Luke, Vincent Mosco, Lisa Nakamura, Russell Potter, Rob Shields, John Sloop, and Joseph Tabbi.

The Political Economy of Modern Iran: Despotism and Pseudo-modernism, 1926-1979

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Iranian History and Politics: The Dialectic of State and Society (Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies Series)

This book contains the most detailed and comprehensive statement of Homa Katouzian's theory of arbitrary state and society in Iran, and its applications to Iranian history and politics, both modern and traditional. Every chapter is a study of its own specific topics while being firmly a part of the whole argument. The discussions include close comparisons with the history of Europe to demonstrate the diversities of the logic and sociology of Iranian history from their European counterparts. Being the first modern theory of Iranian history, it is highly regarded by Iranian historians and social scientists, especially as it has helped to resolve many of the anomalies resulting from the application of traditional theories.

Reference

Routledge

Iran (Iranian Studies)

This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine. Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society against the state; the main objective of the first being to establish lawful government to make modernisation possible, and the second, to overthrow the absolute and arbitrary state, though this time mainly under the banner of religion and Marxism-Leninism and anti-Westernism. Neither of them succeeded in their lofty ideals for reasons that are explained and analysed within. The author also offers a detailed description of Iran’s short-term society, examining the political and intellectual lives of two of the most remarkable intellectuals-cum-politicians of the twentieth century. This book provides an overview of modern Persian literature, both poetry and prose, and discusses the works of three of the most remarkable Persian poets and writers of the period. It considers classical Persian literature through the great variety of its form and substance, and neo-classical literary developments in the nineteenth century, covering the whole history of Persian literature. This is crowned in the last chapter by the love poetry of one of the greatest Persian poets.
Iran will be of interest to students and scholars of Iranian studies and Middle East Politics.

Iran: Politics, History and Literature (Iranian Studies)

Sadeq Hedayat: The Life and Legend of an Iranian Writer

Product Description Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. This book is the first comprehensive study of Hedayat's life and works set against the background of literary and political developments in a rapidly changing Iran over the first half of the 20th century. Katouzian discusses Hedayat's life and times and the literary and political circles with which he was associated. But he also emphasises the uniqueness and universality of his ideas that have both influenced and set Hedayat apart from other Iranian writers of the period and that have given him a mystique that has been instrumental in his posthumous success with acclaimed works such as The Blind Owl.This second edition is fully revised and updated to reflect on recent debates and scholarship on Sadeq Hadeyat. Review “Sadeq Hedayat offers the first reliable introduction to an Iranian writer whose genius is as elusive as the gazelle in the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz's poem... Katouzian deftly dispels the legends about Hedayat that have grown up since his death... Katouzian has produced a study which all who want to understand Iran ought to read. This is a Life which inevitably tells more about Iran's sufferings in the modern world than many other books do.” ―Peter Avery, Times Literary Supplement““a skilful and pioneering study of Sadiq Hedayat which builds on previous scholarship.”” ―Muslim World Book Review“Homa Katouzian has merely reminded us in this revised edition of his already seminal work that he is bar-none the final word on Sadeq Hedayat. This work is a testament to Katouzian's uncanny ability to synthesize society, literature, politics, and a literary persona in a particularly important century in Iran's turbulent and experimental history. The unabashedly informed penmanship, invigorated by well-researched scholarship that is devoid of what we see today are flights of pomp and fancy makes this revised, larger edition a celebrated platform upon which studies on Hedayat can be nurtured: mindful of philology, sociology, and culture. Homa Katouzian carefully draws a logical road map of Hedayat's time and life: from birth to suicide; all awhile surgically keeping the milieu and many of its most pertinent facet's in a literary persona's life present in his discourse. The development of the theme in this book leaves no room for confusion in the flow of this book and as such in the way it informs. Kudos to Professor Katouzian as this is simply a masterpiece: New and improved and AGAIN!” ―Alireza Korangy, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Persian Literature“A must read for anyone who is exploring the field of modern Persian literature, culture, and politics. Katouzian brilliantly and carefully provides a tangible and original framework with which to present an alternative understanding of the life and career of Sadeq Hedayat in the socio-political context of modern Iran.” ―Fatemeh Shams, University of Pennsylvania, USA“In this book Homa Katouzian walks the readers, both the experts on Iran and Persian literature and those who might not be familiar with that country and its culture, through the maze of Hedayat's life and mind via his stories producing the most thorough, well researched, and reader friendly account of Sadeq Hedayat's life and work.” ―M. R. Ghanoonparvar, The University of Texas at Austin, USA About the Author Homa Katouzian is the Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St Antony's College, and Member, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

I.B.Tauris

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