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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 Persian history. Books 7–11: Cyrus the Great (600–530 BC). The books described Cyrus' rise from humble origins, his conquest of the Median empire and his reign down to his death.
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 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.
This prose Shahnameh was in turn and for the most part the translation of a Pahlavi (Middle Persian) work, known as the Khwadāy-Nāmag "Book of Kings", a late Sasanian compilation of the history of the kings and heroes of Persia from mythical times down to the reign of Khosrow II (590–628).
The Book of Daniel originated from a collection of legends circulating in the Jewish community in Babylon and Mesopotamia in the Persian and early Hellenistic periods (5th to 3rd centuries BC), and was later expanded by the visions of chapters 7–12 in the Maccabean era (mid-2nd century BC).
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:
In its original form, which has not been recorded, it was probably planned to consist of about 280 folios with 190 illustrations, bound in two volumes, although it is thought it was never completed. [2] 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 ...
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 ...
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