Books
June 19-23, 2000 / Khordad 30-Tir 3, 1379
Books of the week
The
Golden Age of Persian Art, 1501-1722 : 1501-1722
By Sheila R. Canby
2000, Harry N Abrams Publishers
From Horn Book: The golden age of Persian art was the era of
the Safavid dynasty. In this time of dynamic religious and political developments,
painting and textiles achieved new heights of brilliance and opulence,
and architecture flourished with the growth of cities. This resplendent
volume provides a chronological history of the reign of each successive
Safavid shah, including that of Shah 'Abbas I, who came to the throne in
1588 >>>
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* Haft
zan, haft daastaan
Seven stories by seven women
Forty
Fortunes: A Tale of Iran
By Aaron Shepard
1999, Clarion Books
From Horn Book: Frustrated by her husband's meager earnings,
Jamell convinces Ahmed to become a fortuneteller. After Ahmed unwittingly
fools forty treasure thieves into believing he knows their identities,
he is rewarded handsomely by the king. The story, adapted from a traditional
Iranian folktale, is clever and funny, and the book is well designed: the
text is ostensibly printed on scrolls, and the illustrations are the colors
of gemstones >>>
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Comprehensive
History of the Jews of Iran :
The Outset of the Diaspora
By Habib Levy
1999, Mazda Publishers
A reader writes: This is a fascinating history of the oldest
Jewish community in the Diaspora. In an initial chapter,the author makes
a credible case that the ten lost tribes of Israel are really the Jews
of Kurdistan and other northern provinces of ancient Persia. Since Babylon
was a Persian province for a thousamd years, the Babylonia talmud was really
a product of Persia's Jewish community and Persia was the center of Jewish
thought for a thousand years >>>
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Black
on Black: Iran Revisited
By Ana M. Briongos
2000, Lonely Planet
From Booklist: When the shah of Iran was deposed in the late
1970s after 2,000 years of continuous government by shahs, it marked the
beginning of a new era in everyday Iranian life as well as in politics.
Since 1960 the Spanish author Briongos has made numerous pilgrimages to
Iran. Her chief discovery is the Iranian belief in and practice of ketman,
a traditional philosophy that allows its adherents to publicly renounce
their innermost beliefs while remaining loyal to those beliefs anyway >>>
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Ancient
Persia : From 550 Bc to 650 Ad
By Josef Wiesehofer
1999, I B Tauris & Co
A reader writes: A well researched book however the author seems to
be confused with Zoraoastrainism and suffice to say that he refers in many
places to Zoroastrian 'gods' while the religion is montheistic believing
in Ahuramazda or the Wise Lord. >>>
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Being
Modern in Iran
By Fariba Adelkhah
2000, Columbia University Press
What does it mean to be modern in Iran today? Can one properly speak
of modernity in relation to what many consider to be the paradigmatic Islamic
state? Since its1979 revolution seized the world´s attention, the
Islamic Republic of Iran has remained a subject of misunderstanding, passion,
and polemic, making these questions difficult to answer - or even to ask.
This book - a study of Iran´s political culture in the broadest and
deepest sense - looks into both of these questions by examining the tremendous
changes taking place in Iran today >>>
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