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In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. She sought an escape from the suffocation she felt under the cultural rules of her country and the future her family had envisioned for her. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political unrest in Iran intensified and in February of 1979, Farideh’s family was forced to flee Iran on the last El-Al flights to Tel Aviv. They arrived in Israel as refugees, having left everything behind including the only home Farideh’s father had ever known.Baba, as Farideh called her father, was a well-respected son of the chief rabbi and dayan of the Jews of Shiraz. During his last visit to the United States in 2006, he handed Farideh his memoir that chronicled the years of his life after exile: the confiscation of his passport while he attempted to return to Iran for his belongings, the resulting years of loneliness as he struggled against a hostile bureaucracy to return to his wife and family in Israel, and the eventual loss of the poultry farm that had supported his family. Farideh translated her father’s memoir along with other documents she found in a briefcase after his death. Leaving Iran knits together her father’s story of dislocation and loss with her own experience as an Iranian Jew in a newly adopted home. As an intimate portrait of displacement and the construction of identity, as a story of family loyalty and cultural memory, Leaving Iran is an important addition to a growing body of Iranian–American narratives.

Jews, Iranian --- Iranian American women --- Iranians --- Refugees --- Goldin, Farideh, --- Family. --- Iranis --- Persians --- Ethnology --- Indo-Iranians --- Iranian Jews --- 1979 Islamic revolution --- dislocation --- Shirazi Jews --- immigration --- diaspora --- Iranian --- Shah --- Jewish

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This is a collection of articles by established scholars in the fields of History, Philosophy, Literature and Religious Studies. These are original essays which address the issues and concerns that now dominate the study of religion in its multiple dimensions with a fresh approach. They critique settled opinions and raise new and engaging questions concerning cultural hermeneutics and the academic study of religion. Embellished with a substantive and topical introduction by the editor, this collection of articles will be of abiding interest to scholars and interested lay persons alike.

John Robert Seeley --- Bankimchandra Chatterjee --- natural religions --- hagiography --- auto/biography --- Victorian Jesus --- carita as genre --- life narratives in colonial Bengal --- Krishnacaritra --- secularism --- Swami Vivekananda --- Jyotirmaya Sharma --- Hindu nationalism --- Hindutva --- religious pluralism --- religious inclusivism --- caste system --- Sri Ramakrishna --- Bābā Farīd --- bhakti --- Bhāgavata-purāṇa --- Bulleh Shāh --- Caṇḍīdās --- Hīr-Rāṇjhā --- Ibn ‘Arabī --- Rabindranath Tagore --- Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa --- Rūmī --- Sufism --- Vaiṣṇavism --- Vidyāpati --- virahiṇī --- Wāris Shāh --- Yūsuf-Zulaikhā --- Śrīdhara --- Bhāgavata --- Purāṇa --- commentary --- Caitanya --- Gauḍīya --- Jīva Gosvāmī --- digital Hinduism --- god posters --- Shani --- Hindu images --- Hinduism and mediatization --- Bengal --- Vaiṣṇava --- colonial --- gender --- women --- Srīkanḍa --- gaura nāgara vāda --- Viṣnupriyā --- Śrī Rāmakṛṣṇa --- Vedānta --- Ādi Śaṁkara --- Advaita --- Upaniṣads --- brahman --- ātman --- Śakti --- vijñāna --- samādhi --- Hinduism --- Vedanta --- philosophy of religion --- yoga --- n/a --- Bābā Farīd --- Bhāgavata-purāṇa --- Bulleh Shāh --- Caṇḍīdās --- Hīr-Rāṇjhā --- Ibn 'Arabī --- Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa --- Rūmī --- Vaiṣṇavism --- Vidyāpati --- virahiṇī --- Wāris Shāh --- Yūsuf-Zulaikhā --- Śrīdhara --- Bhāgavata --- Purāṇa --- Gauḍīya --- Jīva Gosvāmī --- Vaiṣṇava --- Srīkanḍa --- gaura nāgara vāda --- Viṣnupriyā --- Śrī Rāmakṛṣṇa --- Vedānta --- Ādi Śaṁkara --- Upaniṣads --- ātman --- Śakti --- vijñāna --- samādhi

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"Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or Munshi, Chandar Bhan 'Brahman' (d. c.1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan's life spanned the reigns of four different emperors, Akbar (1556-1605), Jahangir (1605-1627), Shah Jahan (1628-1658), and Aurangzeb 'Alamgir (1658-1707), the last of the 'Great Mughals' whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of the empire's power, territorial reach, and global influence"--Provided by publisher.

Authors, Indic --- Secretaries --- Indic authors --- Persian literature --- Indo-Iranian Languages & Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Brāhman, Candar Bhān, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Mogul Empire --- History --- Pakistani literature --- White collar workers --- Administrative assistants --- Receptionists --- Candar Bhān Brāhman, --- Brahman, Chander Bhan, --- Brahman, Chandar Bahān, --- Brahman, Chandra Bhan, --- براهمن، چندر بهان, --- برهمن، چندر بهان, --- Moghul Empire --- Mughal Empire --- Mugala Empire --- History of Asia --- Brahman, Candar Bhan --- South Asia --- Chandar Bhān Barahman, --- akbar. --- asia. --- aurangzeb alamgir. --- biography. --- brahman. --- caste. --- chandar bhan. --- classics. --- courtier. --- cultural history. --- great mughals. --- hindu. --- hinduism. --- history. --- identity. --- india. --- indopersian. --- islam. --- jahangir. --- literature. --- middle eastern. --- mughal court. --- mughal. --- munshi. --- muslim monarchs. --- nonfiction. --- persian poets. --- political history. --- religious identity. --- religious pluralism. --- religious tolerance. --- royal court. --- self fashioning. --- shah jahan. --- south asia. --- taj mahal. --- world literature.