Studies on Persianate Societies

Annual Publication of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, now replaced by the Journal of Persianate Studies.

Editor-in-Chief:

• Saïd Amir Arjomand
• State University of New York at Stony Brook
  

Associate Editors:

• Muzaffar Alam (India and Pakistan)
• The University of Chicago & Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Bahriddin Aliev (Tajikistan)
• Institute of Language and Literature, Dushanbe
• Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari (Iran)
• The Greater Islamic Encyclopedia, Tehran
• Asom Urunbaev (Uzbekistan)
• The Institute of Oriental Studies, Tashkent
• Manouchehr Kasheff, Columbia University

Editorial Board:

Oleg Akimushkin, Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg
Abbas Amanat, Yale University
Garnik Asatrian, Yerevan State University
Massumeh Farhad, Freer Gallery of Art
and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution
Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey
Shahla Haeri, Boston University
Anna Krasnowolska, The Jagellonian University, Krakow
Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware
John R. Perry, The University of Chicago
Ishtiyaq Ahmed Zilli, Aligarh Muslim University

Manuscripts should be submitted either to the Associate Editor for the appropriate region or to Editor-in-Chief , Studies on Persianate Societies , Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794-4356, USA.


Table of Contents of SPS.1 (2003/1382)

Articles:

Medieval Persianate Political Ethic
Saïd Amir Arjomand

New Ropes for Royal Tents: Shaykh Baha'i and the Imperial Order of Shah ‘Abbas (996/1587-1038/1629)
Rula Jurdi Abisaab

Modernity and Rural Resistance in Iran: Southern Tribal Uprisings of 1929
Stephanie Cronin

Popular Movements in Fourteenth Century Samarqand (in Persian)
V.V. Barthol'd (Persian translation by Bahriddin Aliev )

Contribution of the Afghan Cameleers to the Development of Australia (in Persian)
Hossein Adibi

Iranian Women: Rising Expectations (in Persian)
Jaleh Shaditalab

Aspects of Verb Formation in Middle Persian Lexicology (in Persian)
Dodikhudo Saymiddinov

Sekandar, Skordion, and Darab's Queen's Bad Breath
Dick Davis

The Mazandarani Kanz al-Asrar ( Divan of Amir Pazvari) (in Persian)
Gity Shokri

The Land of Darkness: Images of India in the Works of Some Safavid Poets
Sunil Sharma

Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique in Iranian Cinema
Michael Fischer

Book Surveys:

India and Pakistan by Ishtiyaq Ahmad Zilli

Russia by Alexei A. Khismatulin

Iran (Persian) by Farrokh Amir-Faryar