Iran Nameh is a quarterly journal of Iranian Studies. A special issue, volume 30, Number 2 (Summer 2015), is dedicated to Ehsan Yarshater
for his lifetime service to Iranian Studies.
Table of Contents
English Section
Professor Ehsan Yarshater IV
Mary Boyce and Gernot Windfuhr
Literature and Politics in Iran, 1919-1925 XX
Homa Katouzian
Mirza Kuchik Khan and the Jangali Movement XLVIII
Farhad Kazemi
Persian Language Policies: Nationalism and Islam LX
Pardis Minuchehr
The Violation of Human Rights in Marjane Satrapi’s XXVIII Persepolis
Shadi Mazhari
Persian Section
Iranian Studies’ Advocate and Patron 4
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
A Young Scholar at the University of London: Ehsan Yarshater, 12
Walter Henning and the Study of Persian Dialects
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
The Tale of an Enduring Devotion 22
Mohammad Estelami
Accompanying Ostad Ehsan Yarshater 30
Jalal Matini
‘Birth, Evolution and Pride:’ The Institute for the Translation 36
and Publication of Books, the Book Society, and the Culture of
Translation and Criticism
Mandana Zandian
The Civilizational Turn, Cyrusian Tolerance and Citizenry’s 52
‘Equality Rights’
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
History and Archaeology: Ernst Herzfeld in Iran 120
Jennifer Jenkins
The Emergence of Iran as a Vatan During the Safavid Era 156
Ahmad Ashraf
Red Iranian Studies 174
Touraj Atabaki and Lana Ravandi-Fadai
Perspectives of Ghaznavid Poetry 192
Mahmoud Omidsalar
Storytelling in Classical Persian Texts: A Concordance 210 of Two Texts
Nasim Khaksar
The Mihrans and the Articulation of Islamic Dogma 218
Parvaneh Pourshariati
The Tale of Siavash 246
Fazlollah Reza
The Manifestations of Soroush in Avestan and Pahlavi 270 Texts and the Shahnameh
Firouzeh Qandehari
Why Was Kartir Forgotten? 280
Touraj Daryaee and Soudabeh Malekzadeh
Mazdian Eschatology and the Disintegration of the Sassanids 288
Daryoosh Akbarzadeh
Selections
My Biography 296
Introduction: Encyclopedia of Iran and Islam 310
An Untimely Foray of Death: 334
[Obituary of W.B. Henning and Review of His Works]
The Respected Scholar 366
The Individual or the Society 370
Patriotism 372
Our Dual Homeland