"The Persian Prince is a unique and formidable text that encapsulates the brilliance, vivacity, and political ferocity of Dabashi's mind." —Jeanne Morefield, University of Oxford

“Praised by leading academics in the field as “extraordinary,” “a brilliant analysis,” “fresh, provocative and iconoclastic,” Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-handedly effected a revolution in the field of Iranian studies.”

“A major achievement. With wit and erudition, Hamid Dabashi has pushed open one of the great locked doors of world literature: the Shahnameh.” Aravind Adiga, author of The White Tiger

Hamid Dabashi’s scholarly investigation into Persophilia―the attraction that Iran’s literary humanism held for giants of European culture including Mozart, Goethe, and Nietzsche―turns simplistic views of ‘Orientalism’ upside down. Malise Ruthven—

“Dabashi is sui generis: there is no other scholar like him in the study of Iranian cinema or Persian literature."—Shaj Mathew, Trinity University

In his retelling of the boldness and tragedy of the Zhina uprising in Iran, Hamid Dabashi asks: What constitutes the success of revolutions and how do we measure their failures? haymarketbooks.org/books/2456-ira…

“Anyone wishing to understand what progressive Iranian intellectuals are now thinking about the traumatic developments in their country will want to read this book. (Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)

“In a grand sweep of Iran’s intellectual history since the eighteenth century, Dabashi discovers a cosmopolitan worldliness rooted in national freedom struggles . . . Partha Chatterjee —