Talk:Iranshenasi

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 * Some Further Comments' I think some background is necessary here.  The Iranica article is not applaudatory but readers need to know some context:
 * A) On spell checks: The journal is not typed via a wordprocessor but with a typewriter (at least as far as I know till recently). Word Processors for Persian language with a spell check is a fairly recent phenomenon (much after the journal came about).  Before the era of modern word processors, one can expect many typos in journals, specially ones that the material had to be retyped via a typewriter.
 * B) Despite the fact that the journal is in Persian, it is somewhat a pioneer in terms of the quality of the material it publishes and also its editorial staff. So it is in this context that the Iranica articles might at first seem "praiseworthy" for the journal.  It calls it a reliable journal, since it is cited by scholars around the world.
 * C) We should not expect thousands of English sources referencing the journal, since it is in Persian language covering a small field Iranian studies.  However, the number of citations by well known authors and writers makes it reliable.  Example:
 * John Walbridge, "The leaven of the ancients: Suhrawardī and the heritage of the Greeks", SUNY Press, 2000. pg 232.
 * Leonard Lewisohn, David Morgan, "The Heritage of Sufism: Late classical Persianate Sufism (1501-1750)" (Vol.3), Oneworld, 1999. pg 122
 * Franklin Lewis, Rumi Past and Present, East and West, Oneworld Publications, 2000
 * Heshmat Moayyad, Franklin Lewis, "The Colossal Elephant and his spiritual feats: Shaykh Ahmad-e Jâm : the life and legend of a popular Sufi saint of 12th century Iran",Mazda Publishers, 2004.
 * Francois De Blois, "Persian Literature - A Biobibliographical Survey: Volume V Poetry of the Pre-Mongol Period", RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
 * Reza Pourjavady, Sabine Schmidtke, "A Jewish philosopher of Baghdad: 'Izz al-Dawla Ibn Kammūna (d. 683/1284) and his writings", BRILL, 2006. pg 7.
 * Shafique N. Virani, "The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: a history of survival, a search for salvation", Oxford University Press US, 2007. pg 204.
 * Joyce Moss, "Middle Eastern literatures and their times", Thomson Gale, 2004. pg 274
 * Charles Peter Melville, "Safavid Persia: the history and politics of an Islamic society", I.B. Tauris, 1996. pg 76.
 * Meir Litvak, "Shi'i Scholars of Nineteenth-Century Iraq: The 'Ulama' of Najaf and Karbala", Cambridge University Press, 2002. pg 242.
 * Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, "Layli and Majnun: Love, Madness and Mystic Longing",Brill Studies in Middle Eastern literature, Jun 2003.
 * Robert Hillenbrand, "Shahnama: the visual language of the Persian book of kings",Volume 2 of Visual Arts Research Institute Edinburgh,Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004. pg 18.
 * Franklin Lewis, Farzin Yazdanfar, "In a voice of their own: a collection of stories by Iranian women written since the Revolution of 1979", Mazda Publishers, 1996. pg xxx, xxxi, xlviii
 * Abbas Milani, "Eminent Persians: the men and women who made modern Iran, 1941-1979: in two volumes", Syracuse University Press, 2008.
 * Wilferd Madelung, Farhad Daftary, Josef W. Meri, "Wilferd Madelung, Farhad Daftary, Josef W. Meri", I.B.Tauris, 2003. pg 25.
 * Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, "Culture and learning in Islam", UNESCO, 2003.
 * Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Sarah Stewart, "Birth of the Persian Empire", I.B.Tauris, 2005. pg 141.

One can check google books and google scholar for the word "Iran Shinasi"/"Iranshinasi"/"Iranshenasi"/"Iran Shenasi". There is many links referencing this journal (only journal with this title and one can check the volume numer) from 1989 till now.--Khodabandeh14 (talk) 14:10, 22 October 2010 (UTC)