British Institute of Persian Studies
The British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) is the UK’s foremost learned society dedicated to promoting and supporting scholarship, research excellence and understanding on all aspects of Iran and the wider Persianate world.
Iran and Afghanistan: Toward a Connected (Literary) History
Fulayj: A Sasanian Persian Fort on the Batinah in Omanfulayj video
The amazing technicolor Yusuf u Zulaykha manuscript from Bukhara in the Sissinghurst collection
Nader Shah and Turkmen Freedom in The Connected Histories of The Kuzzilbash
Book Launch: Karbala in the Ta’ziyeh Episode, Shi’i Devotional Drama in Iran
Book Launch: The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Iranian Cinema
Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century
The origins of Iran’s political and cultural ties with Africa under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
A Persian Paradise: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in Iran 1925-1927
Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran
The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages
Historiographical Controversies Involving the Rise of the Achaemenid Empire
Staging Piety: The Takkiyya Muʿavin al-Mulk in Kermanshah
Reformulation of the Ideals of Heroism in Bahram Beyzaie’s Dramatic Worlds
Poetry on the High Seas: Migration and the Making of an Early Modern World Literature
Uncovering Dr Hans E. Wulff Collection: A Life Contribution to the Study of Iran and Iranian Studies
The Reunification of Iran and the Reign of Aqa Muhammad Shah Qajar
Excavating the Archives: David Stronach’s fieldwork in Iran with the BIPS
Treasures of Herat: Two Timurid Khamsah of Nizami Manuscripts
Open Sesame: Ancient Persia and the Greek Imagination
Feeling Mission Hospitals in Persia and British India
The Hunt as Erotic and Military Training in Early New Persian Poetry
Bringing Wales and Iran together through academia and beyond
Agreeable News from Persia
Making and Unmaking Community: Urban Life in Persianate Rajasthan
Economic and Cultural Renaissance at Kartid Herat, 1251 to 1381
Rivalling Rome: Parthian coins and culture
Humayun Padshah and Iran: Safavid Present and Mythical Past
Roi sur son Trone: the Achaemenid royal audience in late Qajar media
The Mobility of Persian Artefacts: The Sanguszko Carpet in Motion