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English-language texts specifically devoted to Tehrān are rare, but one book that offers a comprehensive picture of the city is Ali Madanipour, Tehran: The Making of a Metropolis (1998). Persian sources include Ḥusayn Karīmān, Tihrān dar guẕashtah va ḥāl (1976 or 1977); Nāṣir Najmī, Irān-i qadīm va Tihrān-i qadīm (1983); Jaʿfar Shahrī, Ṭihran-i qadīm, 4th ed., 5 vol. (2004 or 2005); and the serial publication Kitāb-i Tihrān (irregular).
Useful information on the history and geography of Tehrān can be found in reference books such as The Cambridge History of Iran, 7 vol. in 8 (1968–91); Ehsan Yarshater (ed.), Encyclopædia Iranica (1985– ); C.E. Bosworth et al., “Tihrān,” in H.A.R. Gibb et al. (eds.), The Encyclopædia of Islam, new ed., vol. 10 (1999), pp. 482–496; as well as in some general books on Iranian cities: Paul Ward English, City and Village in Iran (1966); Heinz Gaube, Iranian Cities (1979); and Laurence Lockhart, Persian Cities (1960).
Indirect sources of information on Tehrān include publications that provide treatment of Iran’s modern history: Ervand Abrahamian, Iran Between Two Revolutions (1982); Fariba Adelkhah, Being Modern in Iran (1999; originally published in French, 1998); Haleh Afshar (ed.), Iran: A Revolution in Turmoil (1985); Anoushiravan Ehteshami, After Khomeini: The Iranian Second Republic (1995); L.P. Elwell-Sutton, Modern Iran (1941); John Foran (ed.), A Century of Revolution: Social Movements in Iran (1994); Fred Halliday, Iran: Dictatorship and Development, 2nd ed. (1979); Nikki R. Keddie and Yann Richard, Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution, updated ed. (2006); Homa Katouzian, The Political Economy of Modern Iran: Despotism and Pseudo-Modernism 1926–1979 (1981); Elie Kedourie and Sylvia G. Haim (eds.), Towards a Modern Iran (1980); and Misagh Parsa, Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution (1989).
Some sources of Iran’s 19th-century history also include interesting references to Tehrān, such as C.E. Bosworth, Carol Hillenbrand, and L.P. Elwell-Sutton (eds.), Qajar Iran: Political, Social, and Cultural Change 1800–1925 (1983); V.V. (Wilhelm) Bartold, ed. by C.E. Bosworth, An Historical Geography of Iran (1984; originally published in Russian, 1903); George Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question, 2 vol. (1892, reissued 1966); Charles Issawi (ed.), The Economic History of Iran 1800–1914 (1971); A.K.S. Lambton, Qājār Persia: Eleven Studies (1987); and Percy Molesworth Sykes, Ten Thousand Miles in Persia, or Eight Years in Irán (1902).
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| Added media. | Jun 17, 2025 | ||
| Article revised. | Jun 09, 2025 | ||
| Added cross-reference. | Jun 26, 2024 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: The Bah��� Encyclopedia Project - Tehran. | Apr 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopaedia Iranica - Tehran i. A PErsian Coty At the Foot of The Alborz. | Sep 10, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Iran Chamber Society - Tehran. | Mar 21, 2021 | ||
| Added mention of Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf's tenure as mayor. | Jan 10, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: San Jose State University - The Economic History of Tehran, Iran. | Aug 09, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Bah��� Encyclopedia Project - Tehran. | Mar 13, 2018 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 26, 2018 | ||
| In section Character of the city, revised description of Tehrān's topography. | Dec 13, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lonely Planet - Tehran, Iran. | Apr 23, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of Tehran, Iran. | Apr 23, 2013 | ||
| Media added. | Dec 11, 2009 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 06, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: National Geographic - Travel and Cultures - Tehran. | Apr 17, 2009 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Jun 05, 2008 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Jun 05, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jun 05, 2008 | ||
| Article revised. | Aug 23, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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