Table of Contents, Volume 2, Number 1

Iran Namag: A Bilingual Quarterly of Iranian Studies
Volume 2, Number 1 (Spring 2017)

English Verso

The Rhetoric and Performance of the Trickster Nasreddin
Janet Afary &Kamran Afary

The Perfect Human in Modern Iranian Shī‘ism: Murtaḍá Muṭahharī’s ‘Irfān-Oriented Conception of the Ideal Human Being
Fitzroy Morrissey

Of the Sins of Khalil Maleki
Homa Katouzian

Towards a History of Iran’s Baha’i Community during the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah, 1941-1979
Mina Yazdani

Persian Recto

From Appearance to Character: A Exploration of Sexual and Gender Conceptions in Safavid Physiognomy
Behzad Karimi

A Glance at the Creativity of Firdawsi: “Ant” in the Shahnameh
Mahmoud Fazeli-Birjandi

Iranian Ideas in Farabi’s Philosophy
Hooshang Shokri

Richard Frye’s Narrative of Iranian Cultural Continuity
Halimeh Jafarpoor & Mohsen Massumi

Towards a Sociology of Technology Transfer and Reception: The Case of Abbas Mirza Qajar’s Military Reform
Yasser Khoshnevis

Critical Child: An Examination of the “Reader” in Ali Ashraf Darvishian’s Our School’s Wall Newspaper
Jafar Mirzaee & Neda Akbari

Zarir Memorial (Yadegar-e Zariran) and the Maiden’s Battle 130 Chronicle (Razmnameh-’i Kanizak)
Arash Akbari Mafakher