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This course studies the political, religious, and cultural history of greater Iran from Late Antiquity through the Islamic period to the early modern era. Following an overview of the history of the …
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Examines the cultural environment for the emergence of the short story in Iran and in world literature and traces the development of the Iranian short story through 20th century examples of this …
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This course explores the most important texts of the Zoroastrian literature of ancient and late antique Iran and serves as a broad introduction to the mythical and ritual world of Zoroastrianism and …
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The Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, is the single most important book in Iranian national culture and one of the great epics of world literature. Composed in Persian by the poet Ferdowsi in the late …
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Persian women born in the late 19th century and first half of the 20th century were products of a period of major social and cultural change. For the first time, an educated female could envision a …
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The focus of the course this term is the work of the writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad (b. 1923 d. 1969). His literature will be discussed in terms of 1) the period in which it was written and 2) the social, …
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