Vol. 28, No. 4, Winter 2013

Table of Contents

Remembrance

Amin Banani: A Visionary Scholar
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

Historical Inquiries

Iran’s Forgotten Jewish Revolutionaries
Lior Sternfeld
Carnival as Heterotopia: The Reinvention of Informal Spaces in Yazd
Vahid Vahdat Zad
The Honorific Titles of Foreign Kings in Persian
Daryoosh Akbarzadeh

Literary Inquiries

Where is the Shahnameh’s “Happy Conclusion”?
Behrouz Chamanar
Origins: Rereading ‘Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani’s Tamhidat
Nasim Khaksar
Similarities and Harmonies in the Poetry of Sana’i and Hafiz
Khadijeh Hajiyan

Philosophy and History of Science

The Tabari and Persian Glossaries of Spices in Islah al-Hashayish of Abu ‘Abd Allah Natili
Ali Safari-Aqqal‘ah
Reflections on the Impact of Avicenna on Science and Philosophy
Farhad Ghaboussi
Search for the Truth
Hamid Sahebjami

Book Review

Simin Behbahani, Along With My Mother
Ehsan Yarshater
Rouben Galichian, The Clash of Histories in the South Caucasus
Kaveh Farrokh