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Author : John G. Wishard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 349 pages
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Download or read book Twenty Years in Persia written by John G. Wishard and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John G. Wishard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book Twenty Years in Persia written by John G. Wishard and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John G. Wishard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330818558
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Twenty Years in Persia: A Narrative of Life Under, the Last Three Shahs (Classic Reprint) written by John G. Wishard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty Years in Persia: A Narrative of Life Under, the Last Three Shahs His Imperial Majesty, Mohammed Ali Mirza, Shah Of Persia; A Natural Phenomenon, Often Seen In Mesopotamia; A Kurdish Woman; A Kurdish Wedding Dance; A Persian Grocer; American Presbyterian Hospital, Teheran; Royal Gardens, Teheran; Bagh-E-Shah; A Typical Persian Town Of The Highlands; A Persian Train; Ruins Of The Blue Mosque At Tabriz; The Inscriptions In Persian, Median, and Babylonian At The Ganj-Nomeh, Near Hamadan; Tomb Of The Poet Omar Khayyam; A Persian Theatre; Indoor Costume Of Persian Women; Street Costume Of Persian Women; A Persian Hakim's (Doctor's) Establishment; Tea Time In A Mission Hospital; The Pavilion For Women; The American Presbyterian Hospital, Teheran. Physician's Residence; First Modern Surgery In Teheran; Saturday Morning Clinic About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John G. Wishard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Twenty Years in Persia written by John G. Wishard and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John G. Wishard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781371441890
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (418 download)
Download or read book 20 YEARS IN PERSIA A NARRATIVE written by John G. Wishard and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Homa Katouzian
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ISBN 13 : 9780300121186
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Persians written by Homa Katouzian and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons—its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear program, and controversial role in the Middle East—but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than can be gleaned from the news. This authoritative and comprehensive history of Iran, written by Homa Katouzian, an acclaimed expert, covers the entire history of the area from the ancient Persian Empire to today’s Iranian state. Writing from an Iranian rather than a European perspective, Katouzian integrates the significant cultural and literary history of Iran with its political and social history. Some of the greatest poets of human history wrote in Persian—among them Rumi, Omar Khayyam, and Saadi—and Katouzian discusses and occasionally quotes their work. In his thoughtful analysis of Iranian society, Katouzian argues that the absolute and arbitrary power traditionally enjoyed by Persian/Iranian rulers has resulted in an unstable society where fear and short-term thinking dominate. A magisterial history, this book also serves as an excellent background to the role of Iran in the contemporary world.
Author : Reza Aslan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324004487
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville written by Reza Aslan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this erudite and piercing biography, best-selling author Reza Aslan proves that one person’s actions can have revolutionary consequences that reverberate the world over. Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a two-year stint teaching English and preaching the gospel. He arrived in the midst of a democratic revolution—the first of its kind in the Middle East—led by a group of brilliant young firebrands committed to transforming their country into a fully self-determining, constitutional monarchy, one with free elections and an independent parliament. The Persian students Baskerville educated in English in turn educated him about their struggle for democracy, ultimately inspiring him to leave his teaching post and join them in their fight against a tyrannical shah and his British and Russian backers. “The only difference between me and these people is the place of my birth," Baskerville declared, “and that is not a big difference.” In 1909, Baskerville was killed in battle alongside his students, but his martyrdom spurred on the revolutionaries who succeeded in removing the shah from power, signing a new constitution, and rebuilding parliament in Tehran. To this day, Baskerville’s tomb in the city of Tabriz remains a place of pilgrimage. Every year, thousands of Iranians visit his grave to honor the American who gave his life for Iran. In this rip-roaring tale of his life and death, Aslan gives us a powerful parable about the universal ideals of democracy—and to what degree Americans are willing to support those ideals in a foreign land. Woven throughout is an essential history of the nation we now know as Iran—frequently demonized and misunderstood in the West. Indeed, Baskerville’s life and death represent a “road not taken” in Iran. Baskerville’s story, like his life, is at the center of a whirlwind in which Americans must ask themselves: How seriously do we take our ideals of constitutional democracy and whose freedom do we support?
Author : A. T. Olmstead
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226826333
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book History of the Persian Empire written by A. T. Olmstead and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. "The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."—M. Rostovtzeff
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231552815
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Samak the Ayyar written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Samak, a trickster-warrior hero of Persia’s thousand-year-old oral storytelling tradition, are beloved in Iran. Samak is an ayyar, a warrior who comes from the common people and embodies the ideals of loyalty, selflessness, and honor—a figure that recalls samurai, ronin, and knights yet is distinctive to Persian legend. His exploits—set against an epic background of palace intrigue, battlefield heroics, and star-crossed romance between a noble prince and princess—are as deeply rooted in Persian culture as are the stories of Robin Hood and King Arthur in the West. However, this majestic tale has remained little known outside Iran. Translated from the original Persian by Freydoon Rassouli and adapted by Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, this timeless masterwork can now be enjoyed by English-speaking readers. A thrilling and suspenseful saga, Samak the Ayyar also offers a vivid portrait of Persia a thousand years ago. Within an epic quest narrative teeming with action and supernatural forces, it sheds light on the lives of ordinary people and their social worlds. This is the first complete English-language version of a treasure of world culture. The translation is grounded in the twelfth-century Persian text while paying homage to the dynamic culture of storytelling from which it arose.
Author : Lou Martin
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1412001072
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Wings over Persia written by Lou Martin and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of a captain flying, from 1976 to 1979, for a charter company indirectly owned by the Shah of Iran.
Author : Andrew J. Newman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857716611
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Safavid Iran written by Andrew J. Newman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Safavid dynasty, which reigned from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth century, links medieval with modern Iran. The Safavids witnessed wide-ranging developments in politics, warfare, science, philosophy, religion, art and architecture. But how did this dynasty manage to produce the longest lasting and most glorious of Iran's Islamic-period eras?Andrew Newman offers a complete re-evaluation of the Safavid place in history as they presided over these extraordinary developments and the wondrous flowering of Iranian culture. In the process, he dissects the Safavid story, from before the 1501 capture of Tabriz by Shah Ismail (1488-1524), the point at which Shiism became the realm's established faith; on to the sixteenth and early seventeenth century dominated by Shah Abbas (1587-1629), whose patronage of art and architecture from his capital of Isfahan embodied the Safavid spirit; and culminating with the reign of Sultan Husayn (reg. 1694-1722).Based on meticulous scholarship, Newman offers a valuable new interpretation of the rise of the Safavids and their eventual demise in the eighteenth century. "Safavid Iran," with its fresh insights and new research, is the definitive single volume work on the subject.
Author : Warwick Ball
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ISBN 13 : 9781907318023
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Towards One World written by Warwick Ball and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Persian Empire was the first major eastern power to actually extend its borders into Europe. They came in the 6th century BC seeking to incorporate south-eastern Europe into their empire. Yet Iran's foothold in Europe was tiny, distant and brief. Their contact is usually viewed in terms of conflict: the Graeco-Persian wars, the conquests of Alexander, the numerous wars between Rome and Iran. But Europe's contact with ancient Persia was neither short-lived nor conflicting: it was the beginnings of a complex interaction between East and West that continues to this day.
Author : Justin Perkins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Residence of Eight Years in Persia, Among the Nestorian Christians written by Justin Perkins and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sattareh Farman Farmaian
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307339742
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Daughter of Persia written by Sattareh Farman Farmaian and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate and honest chronicle of the everyday life of Iranian women over the past century “A lesson about the value of personal freedom and what happens to a nation when its people are denied the right to direct their own destiny. This is a book Americans should read.” —Washington Post The fifteenth of thirty-six children, Sattareh Farman Farmaian was born in Iran in 1921 to a wealthy and powerful shazdeh, or prince, and spent a happy childhood in her father’s Tehran harem. Inspired and empowered by his ardent belief in education, she defied tradition by traveling alone at the age of twenty-three to the United States to study at the University of Southern California. Ten years later, she returned to Tehran and founded the first school of social work in Iran. Intertwined with Sattareh’s personal story is her unique perspective on the Iranian political and social upheaval that have rocked Iran throughout the twentieth century, from the 1953 American-backed coup that toppled democratic premier Mossadegh to the brutal regime of the Shah and Ayatollah Khomeini’s fanatic and anti-Western Islamic Republic. In 1979, after two decades of tirelessly serving Iran’s neediest, Sattareh was arrested as a counterrevolutionary and branded an imperialist by Ayatollah Khomeini’s radical students. Daughter of Persia is the remarkable story of a woman and a nation in the grip of profound change.
Author : Reza Zarghamee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933823935
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Discovering Cyrus written by Reza Zarghamee and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most fascinating human epochs lie in the borderlands between history and mystery. So it is with the life of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire in the sixth century bce. By conquest or gentler means, he brought under his rule a dominion stretching from the Aegean Sea to the Hindu Kush and encompassing some tens of millions of people. All across this immense imperium, he earned support and stability by respecting local customs and religions, avoiding the brutal ways of tyranny, and efficiently administering the realm through provincial governors. The empire would last another two centuries, leaving an indelible Persian imprint on much of the ancient world. The Greek chronicler Xenophon, looking back from a distance of several generations, wrote: "Cyrus did indeed eclipse all other monarchs, before or since." The vision of the biblical prophet known as Second Isaiah anticipates Cyrus' repatriation of Jews living in exile in Babylon with these words of the Lord: "He is my shepherd and will accomplish all that I please." Despite what he achieved and bequeathed, much about Cyrus remains uncertain. Persians of his era had no great respect for the written word and kept no annals. The most complete accounts of his life were composed by Greeks. More fragmentary or tangential evidence takes many forms - among them, archaeological remains, administrative records in subject lands, and the always tricky stuff of legend. Given these challenges, Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World is a remarkable feat of portraiture. In his vast sweep, Reza Zarghamee draws on sources of every kind, painstakingly assembling detail, and always weighing evidence carefully where contradictions arise. He describes the background of the Persian people, the turbulence of the times, and the roots of Cyrus' policies. His account of the imperial era itself delves into religion, military methods, commerce, court life, and much else besides. The result is a living, breathing Cyrus standing atop a distant world that played a key role in shaping our own.
Author : Eric Hooglund
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815629757
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Twenty Years of Islamic Revolution written by Eric Hooglund and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works gathered here are based on recent intensive fieldwork in Iran by leading scholars of Iranian culture. The contributors cover a multitude of important topics such as civil society, foreign relations, Islamism, religious-secular debates, and women's issues. These essays challenge stereotypes that have developed about modern-day Iran and will stimulate debate and discussion among scholars and students of the Middle East.
Author : John Ghazvinian
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307271811
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book America and Iran written by John Ghazvinian and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of the relationship between Iran and America from the 1700s through the current day"--
