Reviews

• Published in: Iranian studies 1997, Vol.30 (3-4), p.389-410
• Main Authors: Allen, Roger, Daryaee, Touraj, Garthwaite, Gene R., Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad, Meisami, Julie Scott, Perry, John R., Reid, Megan, Rejali, Darius, Simidchieva, Marta, Terry, Judith
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0021-0862; 1475-4819
• DOI: 10.1080/00210869708701889

My Uncle Napoleon, Iraj Pezeshkzad, trans. Dick Davis, Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 1996, 512 pp., $29.95. Les textes vieil-avestiques, vol. I: Introduction, text et traduction, Jean Kellens and Eric Pirart, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1988, 195 pp. Reading Nasta c liq: Persian and Urdu Hands from 1500 to the Present, William L. Hanaway and Brian Spooner, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 1995, 278 pp. Az Nima ta Ruzagar-e Ma: Tarikh-e Adab-e Farsi-ye Mo c aser (From Nima to Our Time: History of Contemporary Persian Letters), Yahya Arianpur, Tehran: Zavvar, 1374 (1995), 638 pp. + 48 pp. of photographs, title-page reprints, etc. The Green Sea of Heaven: Fifty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz, trans. Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., with an Introduction by Daryush Shayegan, Ashland, Ore.: White Cloud Press, 1995, x + 170 pp. The Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell, with the original Persian on the facing page, Bethesda, Md.: Iranbooks, 1995, 176 pp. Iran und Turfan: Beiträge Berliner Wissenschaftler, Werner Sunder-mann zum 60. Geburtstaggewidmet, ed. Christiane Reck and Peter Zieme, Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 1995, viii + 296 pp., photographs. The History of al-Tabari, vol. XXXIII: Storm and Stress Along the Northern Frontiers of the c Abbasid Caliphate, trans. and annot. C. E. Bosworth, Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies and Bibliotheca Persica, State University of New York Press, 1991. Tales of Two Cities, Abbas Milani, Washington, D.C.: Mage, 1996, 263 pp., $24.95. Avicenna and I: The Journey of Spirits, Manouchehr Parvin, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 1996, 284 pp., $26.95 (cloth). In A Voice of Their Own: A Collection of Stories by Iranian Women Written since the Revolution of 1979, trans. Franklin Lewis and Farzin Yazdanfar, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 1996, 153 pp.