A social history of modern Iran 'from below' focused on subaltern groups and contextualised by developments within Middle Eastern and global history.

Iran's interaction with its neighbours is a topic of wide interest. But while many historical studies of the country concentrate purely on political events and

Iranian history was long told through a variety of stories and legend, tribal lore and genealogies, and tales of the prophets. But in the late nineteenth centur

An introduction to the history of Iran since 1800, covering key events up to the current Islamic Republic.

Based on three decades of ethnographic fieldwork and documentary research, this book traces the political and social history of the Shahsevan, one of the major