This course examines the emergence of modern Iran against the backdrop of Iran's political, social and diplomatic history from the 16th century to 2003. It covers three inter-related topics: the ...

The IHI brings together faculty and research students at LSE who teach and research various aspects of the history of modern Iran from the 16th century to the present, including the history of Safavid ...

The maps of modern Iran which follow were prepared by the CIA and are available in electronic form from The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection of The University of Texas at Austin Modern Iran: The ...

‘In his lucid, astute, and balanced history of the Qajar and Pahlavi eras, Mehran Kamrava provides a strikingly accessible account of the domestic and international forces that ended some ...

The Safavid Dynasty, a Golden Age in Iran, witnessed a cultural flowering under the charismatic Isma'il and and his son Tahmasp, the first two Shahs of the dynasty. This essay is a short history of ...

Foreigners died fighting other people’s wars since antiquity, but Iran’s proxy scheme is unlike anything history has seen, or ...

As Iran faces increasing tensions with the West and turmoil at home, a new exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals clearly interbred ... encounters occurred — the Zagros Mountains in what is now mostly Iran. "The geography of the Iranian Plateau has been almost at the ...