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Papers by Houman Sarshar
American journal of Islam and society, 2009
After twenty-seven centuries of uninterrupted presence on the Persian plateau, the Jews of Iran h... more After twenty-seven centuries of uninterrupted presence on the Persian plateau, the Jews of Iran have become so inextricably ingrained in every possible aspect of Iranian life, culture, religion, and history that any valuable work of scholarship in Judeo-Persian studies, such as the one at hand, must by necessity entail an interdisciplinary approach. Between Foreigners and Shi`is, a groundbreaking work that will henceforth prove indispensable to any researcher of modern Judeo-Persian studies, is a meticulous piece of scholarship that brings as much novelty to its own field as it does to modern Iranian historiography, Middle Eastern political studies, and Islamic studies.
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2009
After twenty-seven centuries of uninterrupted presence on the Persian plateau, the Jews of Iran h... more After twenty-seven centuries of uninterrupted presence on the Persian plateau, the Jews of Iran have become so inextricably ingrained in every possible aspect of Iranian life, culture, religion, and history that any valuable work of scholarship in Judeo-Persian studies, such as the one at hand, must by necessity entail an interdisciplinary approach. Between Foreigners and Shi`is, a groundbreaking work that will henceforth prove indispensable to any researcher of modern Judeo-Persian studies, is a meticulous piece of scholarship that brings as much novelty to its own field as it does to modern Iranian historiography, Middle Eastern political studies, and Islamic studies.
Introduction. Houman M. Sarshar Chapter 1: New Vistas on the History of Iranian Jewry in Late Ant... more Introduction. Houman M. Sarshar Chapter 1: New Vistas on the History of Iranian Jewry in Late Antiquity: Patterns of Jewish Settlement in Iran. Parvaneh Pourshariati Chapter 2: Loter?'i. Martin Schwartz Chapter 3: The Intellectual and Polemical Dimensions of Hovot Rafa'el by El'azar Hayim b. ha-Dayyan Eliahu. Vera B. Moreen and David Yeroushalmi Chapter 4: Two Wars, Two Cities, Two Religions: The Jews of Mashhad and the Herat Wars. Haideh Sahim Chapter 5: The Origins of the Decorated Ketubbah in Iran and Afghanistan. Shalom Sabar Chapter 6: The Material Culture and Ritual Objects of the Jews of Iran. Orit Carmeli Chapter 7: The Things They Left Behind. Judith L. Goldstein Chapter 8: Voices of Marginality: Diversity in Jewish Iranian Women's Memoirs and Beyond. Jaleh Pirnazar Chapter 9: Flights from History in Gina Barkhordar Nahai and Dalia Sofer's Fiction. Nasrin Rahimieh Chapter 10: Fantasies of Flight and Inclusion: Gina Nahai's Reclaiming of Jewish Iranian Identity in the American Diaspora. Mojgan Behmand
... The editor, Houman Sarshar, writes on the mahellah, or the Jewish quarter in Iran (and other ... more ... The editor, Houman Sarshar, writes on the mahellah, or the Jewish quarter in Iran (and other Muslim lands), Haideh Sahim on traditional costumes and ... The last essay of the book, written byNeil Kadisha, is "Eminent Jews of Iran: Their Contributions to the History and Culture of ...
Liverpool University Press eBooks, Dec 1, 2006
Essays on Nima Yushij, 2004
Jewish Quarterly Review, 2005
... The editor, Houman Sarshar, writes on the mahellah, or the Jewish quarter in Iran (and other ... more ... The editor, Houman Sarshar, writes on the mahellah, or the Jewish quarter in Iran (and other Muslim lands), Haideh Sahim on traditional costumes and ... The last essay of the book, written byNeil Kadisha, is "Eminent Jews of Iran: Their Contributions to the History and Culture of ...
American journal of Islam and society, 2009
After twenty-seven centuries of uninterrupted presence on the Persian plateau, the Jews of Iran h... more After twenty-seven centuries of uninterrupted presence on the Persian plateau, the Jews of Iran have become so inextricably ingrained in every possible aspect of Iranian life, culture, religion, and history that any valuable work of scholarship in Judeo-Persian studies, such as the one at hand, must by necessity entail an interdisciplinary approach. Between Foreigners and Shi`is, a groundbreaking work that will henceforth prove indispensable to any researcher of modern Judeo-Persian studies, is a meticulous piece of scholarship that brings as much novelty to its own field as it does to modern Iranian historiography, Middle Eastern political studies, and Islamic studies.
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2009
After twenty-seven centuries of uninterrupted presence on the Persian plateau, the Jews of Iran h... more After twenty-seven centuries of uninterrupted presence on the Persian plateau, the Jews of Iran have become so inextricably ingrained in every possible aspect of Iranian life, culture, religion, and history that any valuable work of scholarship in Judeo-Persian studies, such as the one at hand, must by necessity entail an interdisciplinary approach. Between Foreigners and Shi`is, a groundbreaking work that will henceforth prove indispensable to any researcher of modern Judeo-Persian studies, is a meticulous piece of scholarship that brings as much novelty to its own field as it does to modern Iranian historiography, Middle Eastern political studies, and Islamic studies.
Introduction. Houman M. Sarshar Chapter 1: New Vistas on the History of Iranian Jewry in Late Ant... more Introduction. Houman M. Sarshar Chapter 1: New Vistas on the History of Iranian Jewry in Late Antiquity: Patterns of Jewish Settlement in Iran. Parvaneh Pourshariati Chapter 2: Loter?'i. Martin Schwartz Chapter 3: The Intellectual and Polemical Dimensions of Hovot Rafa'el by El'azar Hayim b. ha-Dayyan Eliahu. Vera B. Moreen and David Yeroushalmi Chapter 4: Two Wars, Two Cities, Two Religions: The Jews of Mashhad and the Herat Wars. Haideh Sahim Chapter 5: The Origins of the Decorated Ketubbah in Iran and Afghanistan. Shalom Sabar Chapter 6: The Material Culture and Ritual Objects of the Jews of Iran. Orit Carmeli Chapter 7: The Things They Left Behind. Judith L. Goldstein Chapter 8: Voices of Marginality: Diversity in Jewish Iranian Women's Memoirs and Beyond. Jaleh Pirnazar Chapter 9: Flights from History in Gina Barkhordar Nahai and Dalia Sofer's Fiction. Nasrin Rahimieh Chapter 10: Fantasies of Flight and Inclusion: Gina Nahai's Reclaiming of Jewish Iranian Identity in the American Diaspora. Mojgan Behmand
... The editor, Houman Sarshar, writes on the mahellah, or the Jewish quarter in Iran (and other ... more ... The editor, Houman Sarshar, writes on the mahellah, or the Jewish quarter in Iran (and other Muslim lands), Haideh Sahim on traditional costumes and ... The last essay of the book, written byNeil Kadisha, is "Eminent Jews of Iran: Their Contributions to the History and Culture of ...
Liverpool University Press eBooks, Dec 1, 2006
Essays on Nima Yushij, 2004
Jewish Quarterly Review, 2005
... The editor, Houman Sarshar, writes on the mahellah, or the Jewish quarter in Iran (and other ... more ... The editor, Houman Sarshar, writes on the mahellah, or the Jewish quarter in Iran (and other Muslim lands), Haideh Sahim on traditional costumes and ... The last essay of the book, written byNeil Kadisha, is "Eminent Jews of Iran: Their Contributions to the History and Culture of ...