The role played by the Persian language in the context of the Islamic world of learning, literature and scholarship, especially in parts of the Muslim lands under Persian cultural influence, has often been overlooked.
Chronological lists of heads of state and principal goverment officials for countries throughout the world from the third millennium B.C. to A.D. 1975 are augmented by a complete index of names
This book presents a translation of Bertold Spuler’s groundbreaking work on the transformation of Iran from a Persian Zoroastrian Empire to a province of the Arab Muslim Empire to a land divided by a number of Persian and Turkish kingdoms ...