Bashiri Working Papers
on Central Asia and Iran

• Winter by Mehdi Akhavan Sales
• State of Afghanistan
• Mahdism in Iranian Religio-Political Life
• Impact of Egypt on Ancient Iran
• Interview with Dr. Iraj Bashiri
• Life of Abbos Aliev

• Cultures of the Silk Road
• Epic Tradition on the Silk Road
• Civil War in Tajikistan

• Bashiri's Biography
• Chronology of Central Asia
• Biographies
• Prominent Tajik Figures
• Persian for Beginners (English)
• Persian for Beginners (Russian)
• The Black Tulip
• Nowruz
• Hedayat's Corner
• Aitmatov's Corner
• Firdowsi's Corner
• Poet's Corner
• Dushanbe-Boulder Teahouse
• History of a National Catastrophe

• Central Asia: An Overview
• Flags of the Republics

Lectures

• Afghanistan After the Taliban?
• Soros Foundation Lectures

Afghanistan

• Afghanistan: Overview
• Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
• Kabul
• The Kirghiz of Afghanistan

Azerbaijan

• Azerbaijan: Overview
• Baku
• Imam Shamil of Daghestan

Kazakhstan

• Kazakhstan: Overview
• Almaty
• Astana

Kyrgyzstan

• Kyrgyzstan: Overview
• Bishkek

Kyrgyz Culture & Identity

• Kyrgyz National Identity
• Ethnic Conflict in Osh
• Chingiz Aitmatov's Corner

Epics

• Manas: The Kyrgyz Epic

Tajikistan

• Tajikistan: Overview
• Dushanbe
• Gorno-Badakhshan

Culture

• Boulder-Dushanbe Teahouse
• The Role of Farr in the Shahname

Identity

• Samanids and Tajik Identity
• Factors Affecting Tajik Identity

Language

• Languages of Tajikistan

Islam

• Muslims and Communists Vie for Power

History

• Masov’s History of a National Catastrophe
• Coins of Kamal Khujandi
• Medicine Under the Samanids

Art & Architecture

• Samanid Decorative Architecture

Music

• Musical Culture of Iran

Biographies

• Prominent Tajik Figures
• Aini’s Life

Turkmenistan

• Turkmenistan: Overview
• Ashgabat
• Kerbabayev’s Life
• Makhtumquli’s Life

Uzbekistan

• Uzbekistan: Overview
• Karakalpakistan
• Tashkent
• Aibek’s Life
• Ashtarkhanids of Bukhara
• Manghits of Bukhara

• Iran: Overview
• Tehran
• Julfa of Isfahan

Persian History & Culture

• The Persian Nowruz
• Zarathustra to Borbad
• Iran and Islam to A.D. 1400

Authors

• Bashiri, Iraj
• Hedayat, Sadeq
• Hafiz
• Rumi
• Nima Yushij

Ancient Iran

• The Achaemenians
• The Sassanians

Drama

• An Eye for an Eye

Language

• Persian for Beginners (English)
• Persian for Beginners (Russian)

Literature

• Hafiz' Shirazi Turk
• Faqiri’s Fiction
• Poets’ Corner

Persian Music

• Borbad’s First Iranian Songs
• Music in the Shahname
• Mehdi: Our Music
• Taj-i Isfahani
• Traditional Persian Music
• Definitions in Persian Music
• At the Side of Ustad Davami

Persian Literature<

• Hafiz' Shirazi Turk
• Hafiz and the Sufic Ghazal
• Hedayat's Corner
• Firdowsi's Corner
• Faqiri's Fiction
• Poets' Corner
• Writers' Corner

Authors and Works A-F

• Afghani, Jamal al-Din
• Ahmadi, Ahmad Reza
• Al-i Ahmad, Jalal
• Attar, Farid al-Din
• Bashiri, Iraj
• Behrangi, Samad
• Chubak, Sadrq
• Daneshvar, Simin
• Daqiqi, Muhammad
• Dihlavi, Amir Khusrau
• E'tesami, Parvin
• Faqiri, Amin
• Farrukhi Sistani
• Farrukhzad, Forugh
• Farrokhzād's Unfinished Experiment
Farru
• Influences on the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad
• Firdowsi, Abu al-Qasim

Authors and Works G-N

• Garmarudi, Sayyid Ali
• Golsurkhi, Khosrow
• Gulistan, Ibrahim
• Hafiz, Shams al-Din
• Hedayat, Sadeq
• Jamalzadeh, Muhammad
• Kasravi, Ahmad
• Khanlari, Parviz Natil
• Khayyam, Umar
• Nasir-i Khusrau
• Manuchehri Damghani
• Mo'ayeri, Rahi
• Moshiri, Fereydun
• Naderpur, Nader
• Nizami, Jalal al-Din Ilyas

Authors and Works Q-Z

• Qarib, Shapur
• Rudaki, Abu Abd Allah
• Rumi, Jalal al-Din
• Sa'di, Muslih al-Din
• Saedi, Ghulamhusein
• Sales, Mehdi Akhvan
• Sepand, Masoud
• Shamlu, Ahmad
• Sultanpur, Sa'id
• Taqva'i, Nasir
• Tavallali, Fereydun
• Unsari Balkhi
• Yushij, Nima

Persian Drama

• An Eye for an Eye

Language and Linguistics

• Persian for Beginners (in English)
• Persian for Beginners (in Russian)
• Persian Syntax

Humor/Children

Mullah Nasr al-Din

References

Who's Who in the World: Iranians