This study highlights the patterns of complex parameters in the Gāthās, defining their pervasive numerology. Fundamentally, conceptual pairings and distributional patterns of terms suggest that the composer of the Gāthās presented, and...

This volume is a representative anthology of Sadeq Chubak, one of the outstanding writers of the 20th century Iran.

The Safavid empire was one of the major political and social formations in the early modern world, but has attracted relatively little attention from historians, although this is changing. As a result, the study of Safavid institutions has long been...

NOTE: Also available in Kindle format at lower price. 1- Click on "Select Format" 2- Select "eBook Download" 3- Select "AMAZON KINDLE" In antiquity Samarkand was the capital of the Persian province of Sogdiana. Its language,...

Fourth Printing. The first volume of Aini's unfinished Reminiscences is a first-person account both of a traditional Iranian-Islamic society on the eve of a fateful transition, and of a precocious boy's rites of passage to literary preeminence. The two...

PLEASE NOTE: THIS BOOK IS IN PERSIAN LANGUAGE. Sargozasht-e Haji Baba-ye Isfahani is a translation of James Morier’s novel, "The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan," by Mirza Habib Isfahani. Morier’s work, first published in England in 1824, is a...

The present monograph provides a survey of the Sasanian coin collection in /the Civico Gabinetto Numismatico/ of Milan. The collection consists of sixty-nine silver coins from the Sasanian period, stretching from the beginning of the reign of Ardašir I...

The Sasanian era (224-651 CE) is an important period in the history of the Near East, the Caucuses and Central Asian history. Some of the basic institutions and ideas that developed in the ancient Near East passed to the Sasanian Iran and through the...

Pars was the birthplace of the Sasanian Dynasty. For more than four hundred years, this province held an important political, economic and religious status within the Empire in spite of westward shift of the capital to Ctesiphon during the earlier phase of...

This publication is based on a lecture delivered by Professor Ahmad Tafazzoli at Harvard University. Professor Tafazzoli divided his lucid presentation into 3 major classes of Sasanian society: warriors, scribes, and dehqans.