Reviews

• Published in: Iranian studies 1989, Vol.22 (4), p.98-123
• Main Authors: Amanat, Mehrdad, Damghani, Ahmad Mahdavi, Dabashi, Hamid, Ernst, Carl W., Frye, Richard N., Hunter, Shireen T., Karimi-Hakak, Ahmad, Keddie, Nikki, Lawson, Todd, Matthee, Rudi, Sims, Eleanor, Stockman, Rober H., Zonis, Marvin
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0021-0862; 1475-4819
• DOI: 10.1080/00210868908701743

Babi and Baha'i Religions: From Messianic Shi'ism to a World Religion, by Peter Smith, Cambridge University Press, London, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, Sydney 1987, pp.xiv, 243. Panj Vaqf-namah, by Mahmud Afshar Yazdi, (Five Endowment Deeds), Tehran Foundation for Mahmud Afshar Yazdi's Endowments, 1363/1984. Iraj Afshar and Karim Isfahaniyan, eds., Namvarah-yi Doktor Mahmūd Afshar Yazdi (Mahmud Afshar Yazdi's Festschrift), 4 vols., Tehran: Foundation for Mahmud Afshar Yazdi's Endowments, 1364/1985-1367/1988. Bulles et Sceaux sassanides de diverses collections, by Philippe Gignoux and Rika Gysclen, Paris: Sludia Iranica, Cahier 4, Association Pour l'avancemeni des études iraniennes, 1987, 306 pp, 23 plates. Iran and Iraq at War , by Shahram Chubin and Charles Tripp, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1988. The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam, from the Persian National Epic, the Shahnameh of Abol-Qascm Ferdowsi, translated by Jerome W. Clinton, Seattle: The University of Washington Press, 1988, xxv + 190 pages, $25.00 cloth $12.50 paper. Persian Carpets , by Michael Craig Hillmann, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984, 98 pp. index to p. 112. Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850, Abbas Amanat, Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1989, pp. xv.+ 461, no price indicated. Iran min al-Dakhil, (Iran From Within), by Fahmi Huwaydi, Cairo: Markaz al-Ahram li al-tarjuma wa al-nashr, 1987, 405 pp. Woven From the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16lh-19lh Centuries , edited by Carol Bier, Washington, DC: The Textile Museum, 1987. Summon Up Remembrance, by Marzich Gail, Oxford: George Ronald Books, 1987, 295 pp., appendix, bibliography, $14.95. Iran and The United States, A Cold War Case Study, by Richard W. Cottam, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. $12.95 pb.