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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 ...
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.
The Comprehensive History of Iran (Persian: تاریخ جامع ایران) is a twenty-volume book series about various aspects of Iran's political, social and cultural history from pre-Islamic times to the extinction of the Qajar dynasty.
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Browne, E.G. Literary History of Persia 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X. Browne, Edward G. Islamic Medicine. 2002. ISBN 81-87570-19-9; Rypka, Jan. History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company, 1968. OCLC 460598. ISBN 90-277-0143-1. Schimmel, Annemarie (1992). A Two-colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry. University of North ...
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:
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.
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