Featured Articles
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ḤABIB-ALLĀH SĀVAJI
(1587-1628), one of the more conservative artists active during the reign of Shah ʿAbbās I (r. 1587-1628). All we know about him, besides his paintings, is the brief note by his contemporary Qāżi Aḥmad, who, writing in 1596, referred to him as a masterful artist distinguished among his peers.
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IRĀNŠAHR (4)
monthly Persian journal, published in forty-eight issues in Berlin by Ḥosayn Kāẓemzāda Irānšahr, June 1922 to February 1927. Two principal tendencies can be distinguished in these articles: a strong interest in ancient Persia and its language and culture, and belief in the potency of a nationalistic spirit.
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
MAY AND APRIL 2010
We hope you are enjoying the new Encyclopædia Iranica website. Various enhancements and improvements continue to be implemented and we appreciate your patience as we strive to put all the pieces in place. In the meantime, we invite you to peruse Iranica's most recently published entries, which were posted on the site during April and May of 2010. Click below for a brief review of these entries, which are sorted alphabetically, and come back often!
In Focus
The extensive historical relations between Iran and India have been covered in a series of survey articles on selected areas of interaction and mutual influence between the two culture areas under the rubric of INDIA; numerous other articles have also treated the various aspects of Iran-India relations, ranging from consideration of the fragmentary information available for the pre-Islamic period to an overview of the enormous body of history, poetry, and other literature produced in India in the Persian language.
