Iran Nameh

A Journal of Iranian Studies

The Foundation for Iranian Studies publishes Iran Nameh, a quarterly journal of Iranian studies now in its 24th year of publication. Articles are in Persian, with summaries in English. Iran Nameh was originally launched to help keep alive Iran's cultural traditions. It now focuses mainly on problems of contemporary Iranian society and government featured in special issues edited by guest scholars while it continues to provide a forum for original research on Iran's literary and artistic heritage. The journal remains one of the most respected and acknowledged publications of its kind inside and outside of Iran. Currently, it has a circulation of 1,000, of which over 600 are subscribed to by individuals and over 120 by institutions in the US, Canada, Western Europe, Russia, CIS, East Asia, South Asia, Australia, North Africa, and Iran. The remainder is made available to readers through bookstores. A complete set of the journal’s back issues has been placed with a local publisher in Tehran and is being gradually printed and distributed within Iran.

Special issues in volumes XII through XXIV of the journal may now be accessed and read on this site as may abstracts of all articles in all issues from volume XIII through volume XXIV. All future issues will be published on the web as well. Past volumes not now available on the web will be gradually made accessible as they become ready for upload.

Searching Iran Nameh

The last issue of each volume contains a cumulative index of the authors and articles that have appeared in that volume. The last issue of the tenth and twentieth volumes contains a cumulative index of all past volumes. Volumes on the web are searchable by author, title, or subject in English and Persian. Searches in English lead to abstracts; searches in Persian lead to the whole issue(s) or appropriate articles in the issue(s). To begin the search, write author's name, article's title, or the subject in the search area at the top right of any page. Within the article, click edit and then click find to go to the name or subject sought.