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Author : Touraj Daryaee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sasanian Iran (224-651 CE) written by Touraj Daryaee and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shahin Nezhad
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3832556117
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Iranshahr and the Downfall of the Sassanid Dynasty written by Shahin Nezhad and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sassanid Persia (224-651 CE) has received increasing attention in both Western and domestic scholarship, not to mention within Iranians in general, particularly in the last three decades. The 1979 Islamic Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the theoretic-clerical regime, the apparent failure of its ideologues in their attempt to reinvent an Irano-Islamic identity based on Twelver Shia myth, and the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) were all key stimuli that have contributed to this increased attention towards the revival of a none-Islamic historicity. The present work sheds light on some significant sociopolitical and cultural aspects which played decisive roles in the collapse of the Sasanian Empire, a world's antique power, whose decline--with on exaggeration--rewrote the history of the three Asian, European and African continents. The authors meticulously describe, analyze and evaluate all the major historical events at the eve of the Arabo-Islamic invasions whose prediction, and subsequently underestimation by and rivalry within the Sasanian nobility put a definite end to the last Iranian pre-Islamic monarchy. The reader hence, by studying this book, may reconsider the downfall of Sasanians and the rise of the Islamic Caliphate to be a mere unexpected event; a cliche which still dominates within majority of scholars and those interested in the Middle East and Iranian Studies looking at Sasanians' decline as an incomprehensible surprise.
Author : Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857733095
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Sasanian Era written by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series concentrates on the Sasanian period. Seizing power from the previous dynasty - the Parthians - the Sasanians ruled Iran and most of the ancient Near East from 224 until 642 CE. They are particularly fascinating because of their adherence to Zoroastrianism, an ancient dualistic Iranian religion named after the prophet Zarathustra (or, in Greek, Zoroaster). The Sasanians expressed the divine aspect of their rule in a variety of forms, such as on coins, rock reliefs and silver plates, and architecture and the arts flourished under their aegis. Sasanian military success brought them into conflict with Rome, and later Byzantium. Their empire eventually collapsed under the force of the Arab army in AD 642, when Zoroastrianism was replaced with Islam.Engaging with all the major aspects of Sasanian culture, twelve eminent scholars address subjects which include: early Sasanian art and iconography; early Sasanian coinage; religion and identity in the Sasanian empire; later Sasanian orality and literacy; and state and society in late antique Iran. The volume in question arguably comprises the most complete and comprehensive treatment of the Sasanian civilization yet to be published in English.
Author : Matthew P. Canepa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520294831
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Two Eyes of the Earth written by Matthew P. Canepa and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires. Bridging the traditional divide between classical and Iranian history, this book brings to life the dazzling courts of two global powers that deeply affected the cultures of medieval Europe, Byzantium, Islam, South Asia, and China.
Author : Parvaneh Pourshariati
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786729814
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire written by Parvaneh Pourshariati and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation It proposes a convincing contemporary answer answer to an ages-old mystery and conundrum: why, in the seventh century CE, did the seemingly powerful and secure Sasanian empire of Persia succumb so quickly and disastrously to the all-conquering Arab armies of Islam? Offering an impressive appraisal of the Sasanians' nemesis at the hands of the Arab forces which scythed all before them, the author suggests a bold solution to the enigma. On the face of it, the collapse of the Sasanians - given their strength and imperial power in the earlier part of the century - looks startling and inexplicable. But Professor Pourshariati explains their fall in terms of an earlier corrosion and decline, and as a result of their own internal weaknesses. The decentralised dynastic system of the Sasanian empire, whose backbone was a Sasanian-Parthian alliance, contained the seeds of its own destruction. This confederacy soon became unstable, and its degeneration sealed the fate of a doomed dynasty.
Author : Matteo Compareti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)
Download or read book From Sasanian Persia to the Tarim Basin. Pre-islamic Iranian Art and Culture Along the Silk-road written by Matteo Compareti and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004460640
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book King of the Seven Climes written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of the King of the Seven Climes, used by Khusro I in the sixth century CE, suggests the most ambitious imperial vision that one would find in the literary tradition of the ancient Iranian world. Taking this as a point of departure, the present book aims to be a survey of the dynasties and rulers who thought of going beyond their own surroundings to forge larger polities within the Iranian realm.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004460667
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of papers on the various aspects of Sasanian world which were delivered at the University of Oxford in 2014.
Author : Jeffrey Spier
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066803
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Persia written by Jeffrey Spier and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of Persia’s interactions and exchanges of influence with ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. The founding of the first Persian Empire by the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great in the sixth century BCE established one of the greatest world powers of antiquity. Extending from the borders of Greece to northern India, Persia was seen by the Greeks as a vastly wealthy and powerful rival and often as an existential threat. When the Macedonian king Alexander the Great finally conquered the Achaemenid Empire in 330 BCE, Greek culture spread throughout the Near East, but local dynasties—first the Parthian (247 BCE–224 CE) and then the Sasanian (224–651 CE)—reestablished themselves. The rise of the Roman Empire as a world power quickly brought it, too, into conflict with Persia, despite the common trade that flowed through their territories. Persia addresses the political, intellectual, religious, and artistic relations between Persia, Greece, and Rome from the seventh century BCE to the Arab conquest of 651 CE. Essays by international scholars trace interactions and exchanges of influence. With more than three hundred images, this richly illustrated volume features sculpture, jewelry, silver luxury vessels, coins, gems, and inscriptions that reflect the Persian ideology of empire and its impact throughout Persia’s own diverse lands and the Greek and Roman spheres. This volume is published to accompany a major international exhibition presented at the Getty Villa from April 6 to August 8, 2022.
Author : Touraj Daryaee
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199732159
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History written by Touraj Daryaee and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a guide to Iran's complex history. The book emphasizes the large-scale continuities of Iranian history while also describing the important patterns of transformation that have characterized Iran's past.
Author : Matthew P. Canepa
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520379209
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Iranian Expanse written by Matthew P. Canepa and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in Persia and the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment to form and contest Iranian cultural memory, royal identity, and sacred cosmologies. Investigating over a thousand years of history, from the Achaemenid period to the arrival of Islam, The Iranian Expanse argues that Iranian identities were built and shaped not by royal discourse alone, but by strategic changes to Western Asia’s cities, sanctuaries, palaces, and landscapes. The Iranian Expanse critically examines the construction of a new Iranian royal identity and empire, which subsumed and subordinated all previous traditions, including those of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Anatolia. It then delves into the startling innovations that emerged after Alexander under the Seleucids, Arsacids, Kushans, Sasanians, and the Perso-Macedonian dynasties of Anatolia and the Caucasus, a previously understudied and misunderstood period. Matthew P. Canepa elucidates the many ruptures and renovations that produced a new royal culture that deeply influenced not only early Islam, but also the wider Persianate world of the Il-Khans, Safavids, Timurids, Ottomans, and Mughals.
Author : Stephen H. Rapp Jr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317016718
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes written by Stephen H. Rapp Jr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgian literary sources for Late Antiquity are commonly held to be later productions devoid of historical value. As a result, scholarship outside the Republic of Georgia has privileged Graeco-Roman and even Armenian narratives. However, when investigated within the dual contexts of a regional literary canon and the active participation of Caucasia’s diverse peoples in the Iranian Commonwealth, early Georgian texts emerge as a rich repository of late antique attitudes and outlooks. Georgian hagiographical and historiographical compositions open a unique window onto a northern part of the Sasanian world that, while sharing striking affinities with the Iranian heartland, was home to vibrant, cosmopolitan cultures that developed along their own trajectories. In these sources, precise and accurate information about the core of the Sasanian Empire-and before it, Parthia and Achaemenid Persia-is sparse; yet the thorough structuring of wider Caucasian society along Iranian and especially hybrid Iranic lines is altogether evident. Scrutiny of these texts reveals, inter alia, that the Old Georgian language is saturated with words drawn from Parthian and Middle Persian, a trait shared with Classical Armenian; that Caucasian society, like its Iranian counterpart, was dominated by powerful aristocratic houses, many of whose origins can be traced to Iran itself; and that the conception of kingship in the eastern Georgian realm of K’art’li (Iberia), even centuries after the royal family’s Christianisation in the 320s and 330s, was closely aligned with Arsacid and especially Sasanian models. There is also a literary dimension to the Irano-Caucasian nexus, aspects of which this volume exposes for the first time. The oldest surviving specimens of Georgian historiography exhibit intriguing parallels to the lost Sasanian Xwadāy-nāmag, The Book of Kings, one of the precursors to Ferdowsī’s Shāhnāma. As tangible products of the dense cross-cultural web drawing the re
Author : Touraj Daryaee
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004460616
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book From Oxus to Euphrates written by Touraj Daryaee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a synthetical and student-friendly introduction to Sasanian studies.
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Author : Mehrdad Kia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Persian Empire [2 volumes] written by Mehrdad Kia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-balanced reference on ancient Persia demonstrates the region's contributions to the growth and development of human civilization from the 7th century BCE through the fall of the Persian Sasanian Empire in 651CE. Knowledge of ancient Persia is often gleaned from the writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans—two civilizations that viewed the Persians as enemies. This one-of-a-kind reference provides unbiased coverage of the cultural history of the Persian Empire, examining the Median, Achaemenid, Parthian, Kushan, and Sasanian dynasties and tracing the development and maturation of Iranian societies during a period of nearly 1,500 years. As one of the most comprehensive studies on the topic, this historical overview explores the region's rich past while providing insight into the cultures and civilizations the Persians came to rule and influence. Using primary sources written and inscribed by the ancient Persians themselves, the encyclopedia studies the pre-Islamic civilizations of Iran in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Incorporating contributions from scholars who discuss the rise and fall of various Persian dynasties, the work offers some 180 entries that cover such topics as religion, royal nobility, the caste system, and political assassinations. The content offers perspectives from a variety of disciplines—from anthropology to archaeology, geography, and art history, among other areas.
Author : Ali Keyhani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (771 download)
Download or read book Sassanid Empire-Four Hundred Years of Wars with Roman written by Ali Keyhani and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sassanid Empire- Four hundred Years of Wars with Roman. The Sassanid called their empire "Iranshahr," "Empire of the Aryans." Cyrus, the great and Darius, set the standard of Persian civilization. The concept of Iran, as a diverse Aryan people, took roots during the Sassanid era. From this perspective, the Sassanid period is one of Iran's influential periods in Iran's history. Sassanid era displayed the highest achievement of the time. The Roman civilization had considerable impacts on the Sassanids' times. The Romans recognized the Sassanid Persians with the status of equals to their own. Sassanid Empire ruled the greater Iran from 224 C.E to 651 C.E. During this time, Mani was the prophet of the Manichaean, a theology that taught a dualistic view of good and evil. A key belief in Manichaeism is that the powerful, though not omnipotent good power (God), was opposed by the eternal evil power (devil). Humanity, the world, and the soul are the by-product of the battle between God's proxy, Primal Man, and the devil. Mazdak was a Zoroastrian priest who claimed to receive revelation from Ahura Mazda. He gained influence during the reign of the Sasanian emperor Kavadh I He instituted communal possessions and social welfare programs for his followers. Mazdak taught a combination of altruism and pleasure-seeking. He said to his followers, "Enjoy the pleasures of life and satisfy your appetite to the highest degree. Eat and drink in the spirit of equality, seek good deeds, abstain from evils by shedding blood, and inflicting harm on others. Practice hospitality without reservation." Mazdak was a first proto-socialist prophet. Mazdak teachings may be inferred from the later doctrine of the Khorram-Dinan, meaning "those of the Joyful Religion". The death of Khosrow by his son Kavad culminated in a tumultuous civil war. The end came swiftly and decisively with death of Kavad by the most powerful members of the aristocracy and Zoroastrian clergy, collectively destroyed their legitimacy by in fighting and civil war to create their autonomous government. Then followed by eight rulers that were murdered one by one after a year.in power. Yazdegerd III was the last Sasanian King of Kings of Iran. At the end came swiftly and decisively. it was the Arabs, united under the flag of Islam dealt the final blow to Sasanian empire. Yazdegerd was powerless to contain the Arab invasion of Iran and spent most of his reign fleeing from one province to another in the vain hope of raising an army. Yazdegerd met his end at the hands of a miller near Merv a city in central Asia in 651 C.E., bring about an end to the last pre-Islamic Iranian empire after more than 400 years of rule. The irony is Yazdegerd means "yazad yazata- "divine being" and-karta"made", by "God-made".In the end, it was the Arabs, united under the flag of Islam dealt the decisive blow to the Sasanian empire. Yazdegerd was powerless to contain Iran's Arab invasion and spent most of his reign fleeing from one province to another in the vain hope of raising an army. Yazdegerd met his end at the hands of a miller near Merv, a city in central Asia in 651 C.E., bring about an end to the last pre-Islamic Iranian Empire after more than 400 years of rule.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110215586
Total Pages : 2822 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Medieval Studies written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 2822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.
Author : Scott McGill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118830350
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Late Antique Literature written by Scott McGill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted scholars in the field explore the rich variety of late antique literature With contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antique Literature presents a broad review of late antique literature. The late antique period encompasses a significant transitional era in literary history from the mid-third century to the early seventh century. The Companion covers notable Greek and Latin texts of the period and provides a varied overview of literature written in six other late antique languages. Comprehensive in scope, this important volume presents new research, methodologies, and significant debates in the field. The Companion explores the histories, forms, features, audiences, and uses of the literature of the period. This authoritative text: Provides an inclusive overview of late antique literature Offers the widest survey to date of the literary traditions and forms of the period, including those in several languages other than Greek and Latin Presents the most current research and new methodologies in the field Contains contributions from an international group of contributors Written for students and scholars of late antiquity, this comprehensive volume provides an authoritative review of the literature from the era.
