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Answer to History (French: Réponse à l'histoire; Persian: پاسخ به تاریخ) is a memoir written by the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, shortly after his overthrow in 1979 by Islamic revolution. The book was originally written in French and was translated into English and Persian as well as other languages, and was published ...
The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was known in the Western world) is intertwined with Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning from Anatolia to the Indus River and from the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf. Central to this area is modern-day Iran, which covers the bulk of the Iranian plateau.
Greater Iran or Greater Persia (Persian: ایران بزرگ Irān-e Bozorg), also called the Iranosphere or the Persosphere, is an expression that denotes a wide socio-cultural region comprising parts of West Asia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia (specifically the Tarim Basin)—all of which have been affected, to some ...
It is impossible that most of the Persian material in the Nihāyat come from the Khwadāynāmag, but some of the shorter and drier royal biographies may ultimately be derived from it. [10] The Nihāyat generally agrees with the history of al-Dīnawarī (d. 895), although it often provides more detail, as in the story of Bahrām Chōbīn.
Jessica Settergren of World History Encyclopedia gave The Persians a score of 4 out of 5 stars, recommending the book as an "excellent introduction to the history of Iran". [23] Settergren described it as "a gorgeous coffee table book " and praised the "heavy, photo-quality glossy paper" with "liberally populated" pictures, maps, timelines and ...
The remaining books primarily detail the reign of Mas'ud I, sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire. [4] Written during a pivotal era in Islamic history marked by the disintegration of the universal Islamic caliphate and the rise of regional powers, the work reflects the transition of the Ghaznavid amirate into a sultanate.
It is the largest early book in the tradition of the Persian miniature, [3] in which it is "the most magnificent manuscript of the fourteenth century", [4] "supremely ambitious, almost awe-inspiring", [5] and "has received almost universal acclaim for the emotional intensity, eclectic style, artistic mastery and grandeur of its illustrations".
Russo-Persian War (1826–1828) Facing the possibility of a Russian conquest of Tehran and with Tabriz already occupied, Persia signed the Treaty of Turkmenchay; decisive and final cession of the last Caucasian territories of Iran comprising modern-day Armenia, the remainder of the Azerbaijan Republic that was still in Iranian hands, and Igdir ...