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,...

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...

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.

Scholars and Humanists contains a series of letters exchanged between the Iranian scholar and statesman, S.H. Taqizadeh, and the German Iranist W.B. Henning, between 1937 and 1966. The letters contain a wealth of information important to the history of...