Journal of Persianate Studies (JPS)
The journal publishes articles on the culture and civilization of the geographical area where Persian has historically been the dominant language or a major cultural force, encompassing Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, as well as the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and parts of the former Ottoman Empire. Its focus on the linguistic, cultural and historical role and influence of Persian culture and Iranian civilization in this area is based on a recognition that knowledge flows from pre-existing facts but is also constructed and thus helps shape the present reality of the Persianate world. Such knowledge can mitigate the leveling effects of globalization as well as counteract the distortions of the area’s common historical memory and civilizational continuity by the divisive forces of modern nationalism and imperialism.
ASPS welcomes papers from members and other scholars for the Journal of Persianate Studies. Please send your submissions to:
Said Amir Arjomand, Editor-in-Chief.
The JPS replaces our annual publication, Studies on Persianate Societies, the last (3rd) volume of which appeared in the fall of 2007.
JPS, 3.1 (2010) contains:
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
JPS, 2.2 (2009) contains:
Said Amir Arjomand, Evolution of the Persianate Polity and its Transmission to India
Inga Kaladze, The Georgian Translation of Vis and R?min: An Old Specimen of Hermeneutics
Symposium on the Eighteenth-Century Fracturing of the Persianate World:
Paul Losensky, Introduction o Sunil Sharma, From Aesha to Nur Jahan: The Shaping of a Classical Persian Poetic Canon of Women
Rajeev Kinra, Infantilizing Baba Dara: The Cultural Memory of Dara Shekuh and the Mughal Public Sphere
Matthew C. Smith, Literary Connections: Bahar’s Sabkshenasi and the Bazgasht-e Adabi
Mana Kia, Accounting for Difference: A Comparative Look at the Autobiographical Travel Narratives of Hazin Lahiji and‘Abd-al-Karim Kashmiri
JPS, 2.1 (2009) contains:
Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian, Georgia and Iran: Three Millennia of Cultural Relations: An Overview
Hassan Rezai Baghbidi, Darius and the Bisotun Inscription: A New Interpretation of the Last Paragraph of Column IV
Habib Borjian, Median Succumbs to Persian after Three Millennia of Coexistence: Language Shift in the Central Iranian Plateau
Akbar Irani, Persian Manuscripts: The Persianate Common Heritage of Iran with the Indian Subcontinent, Transoxiana and the Ottoman Empire
Leila Dodykhudoeva and Bayandur Areg, Survey of Russian Books on Iranian and Persianate Studies (2206-08)
JPS, 1.2 (2008) contains the following articles:
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 xar∂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). Ire`ne Natchkebia
Two 18th-Century Royal Palaces in Georgia and Armenia. Irina Khoshoridze
Two Chinese bowls from the Chini-kh?na of Ardabil. Natia Rostiashvili
Persians in Georgia (1801-1921). Marina Alexidze
JPS, 1.1 (2008) contains:
From the Editor: Defining Persianate Studies. Said Amir Arjomand
The Salience of Political Ethic in the Spread of Persianate Islam. Said 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
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Editor-in-Chief:
- Saïd Amir Arjomand, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Associate Editor:
- Habib Borjian, New York
Editorial Board:
- Iraj Afshar, Tehran
- Oleg Akimushkin, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, St. Petersburg
- Sajida Alvi, McGill University
- Muzaffar Alam, The University of Chicago
- Garnik Asatrian, Yerevan State University
- Grigol Beradze, The G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Tbilisi
- Anne H. Betteridge, University of Arizona
- Houchang E. Chehabi, Boston University
- Charles-Henri de Fouche´cour, University of Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Bert Fragner, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey
- Edmund Herzig, Oxford University
- Irina Koshoridze, National Museum of Georgia
- Robert McChesney, New York University
- Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware
- Charles P. Melville, Cambridge University
- Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University
- Sunil Sharma, Boston University
- Asom Urunbaev, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan
- Ishtiyaq Ahmad Zilli, Aligarh Muslim University
- Iraj Afshar, Tehran