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Lara Fabian wrote a mixed review of The Persians for Antiquity, in which she described the "slim and readable book" that unfortunately "[simplifies] the complex historical strands to the point of inaccuracy", with the most successful sections being those that "deal with the reception of Persian history in early modern and modern Western ...
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West is a historical study of the Persian Empire by popular historian Tom Holland, first published in 2005. It won the Runciman Award . Reviews
Savušun (also spelled Savushun, Persian: سووشون) is a 1969 Persian novel by Iranian writer Simin Daneshvar. [1] It is the first novel in Persian written by a female author. [2] The story is about the life of a landowning family in Shiraz faced to the occupation of Iran during World War II. [1] Savušun has sold over five hundred thousand ...
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.
[48] [49] [50] This book has been prepared with great haste. This book is just a chronicle, without regard to new information and references to a large volume of new books and research. The articles do not have the right ending and conclusions. The book's editing is incomplete and some of the reviews have been personalized. [51]
Books 4–6: Median history. The books recounted the history of the Median empire from the reign of Arbaces to the reign of Astyages and his defeat in the hands of Cyrus the Great of Persia. Books 1–6 may have originally been conceived as a separate work devoted to Assyriaca and Medica, and opposed to the rest of the work devoted to the ...
The influence of Persian literature in Western culture is historically significant. In order to avoid what E.G. Browne calls "an altogether inadequate judgment of the intellectual activity of that ingenious and talented people" (E.G.Browne, p4), many centers of academia throughout the world today from Berlin to Japan have permanent programs for Persian studies for the literary heritage of Persia.
The book is in 4 volumes including the events in Iranian poetry from 1905 to 1979. It goes year by year starting with a brief description of political and social condition of the time following with a commentary on the literary criticism condition. A list of literary magazines and published poetry books is provided for each year.