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Contents of JPS 4.1 (2011)

Special Issue on Fathers and Daughters in Islam
Guest Editors Alyssa Gabbay and Julia Clancy-Smith

  • Alyssa Gabbay, Foreword
  • Julia Clancy-Smith, Introduction
  • Karen Ruffle, May You Learn from Their Model: The Exemplary Father-Daughter Relationship of Mohammad and Fatima in South Asian Shi‛ism
  • Paul E. Walker, The Fatimid Caliph al-‛Aziz and His Daughter Sitt al-Mulk: A Case of Delayed but Eventual Succession to Rule by a Woman
  • Alyssa Gabbay, “In Reality a Man”: Sultan Iltutmish and His Daughter, Raziya
  • Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Süleyman and Mihrimah: The Favorite’s Daughter
  • Afshan Bokhari, Imperial Transgressions and Spiritual Investitures: A Begam’s “Ascension” in Seventeenth Century Mughal India

Contents of JPS 3.2 (2010)

  • Sholeh A. Quinn, Through the looking Glass: Kingly Virtues in Safavid and Mughal Historiography
  • Sulhiniso Rahmatullaeva, Samarqand's Rigestan and its Architectural Meanings
  • Sassan Pejhan, A Picture Postcard View of the Persian Constitutional Revolution
  • Dariush Borbor, A Syntacto-Cognitive Study of the Diachrony, Synchrony, Etymology and Gloss of the New Persian Formant am/an
  • Review Essay
  • Touraj Daryaee, The Fall of the Sassanian Empire to the Arab Muslims: From Two Centuries of Silence to Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: the Partho-Sasanian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran
  • Alexander V. Akopyan, A Survey of Russian Works on Persianate Histry and Culture, 2006-2010

Contents of JPS 3.1 (2010)

  • Jocelyn Sharlet, A Garden of Possibilities in Manuchehri’s Spring Panegyrics
  • Mohammad-Ali Forughi, The History of Modernization of Law (translated by Manouchehr Kasheff)
  • Afshin Marashi, Imagining Hafez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932
  • Ludwig Paul, The Language Reform of the First Farhangestān (1935-41) and the Question of its Success
  • Maryam Rutner, A Survey of the Content and Purpose of the Discipline of Political Science in Iran and Its Significance for the Iranian Society
  • Review Essay on General Introduction to Persian Literature: A History of Persian Literature by Michael Hillmann

Contents of JPS 2.2 (2009)

  • Evolution of the Persianate Polity and its Transmission to India
    Saïd Amir Arjomand
  • The Georgian Translation of Vis and Rāmin: An Old Specimen of Hermeneutics
    Inga Kaladze
  • Introduction: Symposium on the Eighteenth-Century Fracturing of the Persianate World
    Paul Losensky
  • From 'Ā'esha to Nur Jahān: The Shaping of a Classical Persian Poetic Canon of Women
    Sunil Sharma
  • Infantilizing Bābā Dārā: The Cultural Memory of Dārā Shekuh and the Mughal Public Sphere
    Rajeev Kinra
  • Literary Connections: Bahār’s Sabkshenāsi and the Bāzgasht-e Adabi
    Matthew C. Smith
  • Accounting for Difference: A Comparative Look at the Autobiographical Travel Narratives of Hazin Lāhiji and 'Abd-al-Karim Kashmiri
    Mana Kia
  • Report on the Fourth ASPS Biennial Convention in Lahore

Contents of JPS 2.1 (2009)

  • Georgia and Iran: Three Millennia of Cultural Relations: An Overview
    Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian
  • Darius and the Bisotun Inscription: A New Interpretation of the Last Paragraph of Column IV
    Hassan Rezai Baghbidi
  • Median Succumbs to Persian after Three Millennia of Coexistence: Language Shift in the Central Iranian Plateau
    Habib Borjian
  • Persian Manuscripts: The Persianate Common Heritage of Iran with the Indian Subcontinent, Transoxiana and the Ottoman Empire
    Akbar Irani
  • Survey of Russian Books on Iranian and Persianate Studies (2206-08)
    Leila Dodykhudoeva and Bayandur Areg

Contents of JPS 1.2 (2008)

  • Social Movements in Near Eastern Cities from the 9th to the 13th Century
    Valerian Gabashvili
  • An Historical Survey of Georgian-Iranian Relations in the Nineteenth Century
    George Sanikidze
  • The Iranian Notion of xνar∂nah in Post-Achaemenid Georgian Kingship
    Mariam Gvelesiani
  • Ancient and Historical Maps of Georgia and Persia
    M.R. Sahab
  • Among the Chosen Cities: Tbilisi in the Shi'i Tradition
    Grigol Beradze
  • Parsadan Gorgijanidze’s Exile in Shushtar: A Biographical Episode of a Georgian Official in the Service of the Safavids
    Hirotake Maeda
  • Joseph Rousseau on Georgia and the Planned Indian Expedition (1807)
    Irène Natchkebia
  • Two 18th-Century Royal Palaces in Georgia and Armenia
    Irina Khoshoridze
  • Two Chinese bowls from the Chini-khāna of Ardabil
    Natia Rostiashvili
  • Persians in Georgia (1801-1921)
    Marina Alexidze

Contents of JPS 1.1 (2008)

[Note that all the content from this issue can be retrieved for free at the link above.]

  • From the Editor: Defining Persianate Studies
    Saïd Amir Arjomand
  • The Salience of Political Ethic in the Spread of Persianate Islam
    Saïd Amir Arjomand
  • To Forge a Book in the Medieval Age: Nezam al-Molk’s Siyar al-Moluk (Siyasat-Nama)
    Alexey A. Khismatulin
  • Central Organisation, Tabarrokat and Succession among the Early Cheshtis in India
    Ishtiyaq Ahmad Zilli
  • Flowers of Persian Song and Music: Davud Pirniy'a and the Genesis of the Golha Programs
    Jane Lewisohn
  • Persian Rap: The Voice of Contemporary Iran’s Youth
    Sholeh Johnston

Studies on Persianate Societies

The JPS replaces our former annual publication, Studies on Persianate Societies, the last (third) volume of which appeared in the fall of 2007.