Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History

by Nasrin Rahimieh

Book Overview

Missing Persians serves to articulate in elegant, vibrant prose the disparate and displaced narratives of five Persian subjects. Nasrin Rahimieh's complex and nuanced arguments effectively demonstrate the links that her five figures have to a stable Persian identity--complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change.

Rahimieh delineates the captivating histories of "missing" Persians from the sixteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081562753X
• ISBN13: 9780815627531
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.9" x 7.9"