Qajar paintings: Persian oil paintings of the 18th & 19th centuries

Teaching and learning Persian as an additional language is facing unprecedented demand inside and outside the Persian-speaking counties. This chapter discusses teaching Persian to ...

The present chapter is an overview of sociolinguistic studies in the Persian-speaking territory with an emphasis on Iran and is divided into two general parts. In the first part, d...

Ideal for high school and college-level readers as well as students attending military academies and general audiences, this encyclopedia covers the details of the Persian Gulf War...

This well-balanced reference on ancient Persia demonstrates the region's contributions to the growth and development of human civilization from the 7th century BCE through the fall...

This chapter provides an overview of the prosody of the Persian language. The chapter starts with a discussion of word stress, which is known to be word-final in all categories oth...

The article offers brief descriptions and analyses of five virtually unknown 18th-century European sources on Persia written in different languages and spanning a period from the r...