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Nihāyat al-arab fī akhbār al-Furs wa ʾl-ʿArab ("The Ultimate Aim, about the History of the Persians and the Arabs") is an anonymous 9th-century Arabic history of Persia and South Arabia. [1] Its author is sometimes known as Pseudo-Aṣmaʿī. [2] It is preserved in four manuscripts:
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.
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 ...
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.
Two Centuries of Silence has been translated into English by Paul Sprachman (Oct. 5, 2017). [2] In his extensive introductory essay, Sprachman offers an analysis as how Zarrinkub was compelled to change his historical view of Iranian history after the 1979 Revolution [3] The book was earlier translated by Avid Kamgar (Aug. 19, 2016) and published by Oughten House Publications.
The Persian Contributions to the English Language: An Historical Dictionary is a 2001 book by Garland Cannon and Alan S. Kaye. It is a historical dictionary of Persian loanwords in English which includes 811 Persian words appeared in English texts since 1225 CE.
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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 ...