Download or read book Popular Persians written by Pam Scheunemann and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title takes a popular feline breed, Persians and colorfully presents their facial features, body basics, personalities and more! This book even includes a checklist to help readers decide if this cat is right for them. Illustrations reveal interesting details about the history of Persian cats. Readers both young and old will find this informative book worthwhile! Super Sandcastle is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Download or read book Popular Persians written by Pam Scheunemann and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title takes a popular feline breed, Persians and colorfully presents their facial features, body basics, personalities and more! This book even includes a checklist to help readers decide if this cat is right for them. Illustrations reveal interesting details about the history of Persian cats. Readers both young and old will find this informative book worthwhile! Super Sandcastle is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Download or read book Persians written by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, and their heirs reigned supreme for centuries until the conquests of Alexander of Macedon brought the empire to a swift and unexpected end in the late 330s BCE. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this dynasty and the world it ruled. Drawing on Iranian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, art, and archaeology, he shows how the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the world’s first superpower—one built, despite its imperial ambition, on cooperation and tolerance. This is the definitive history of the Achaemenid dynasty and its legacies in modern-day Iran, a book that completely reshapes our understanding of the ancient world.
Download or read book The Persians written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Persians written by Ruth Owen and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persian cats originally came from what is modern day Iran. This breed of cat is usually crowned the most popular breed in the United States. A simple introduction to a top breed and a great reference for any young reader.
Download or read book Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Shahnameh written by Abolqasem Ferdowsi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition A Penguin Classic Dick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shahnameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked explanations to ease along modern readers. Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the Shahnameh is among the greatest works of world literature. This prodigious narrative tells the story of pre-Islamic Persia, from the mythical creation of the world and the dawn of Persian civilization through the seventh-century Arab conquest. The stories of the Shahnameh are deeply embedded in Persian culture and beyond, as attested by their appearance in such works as The Kite Runner and the love poems of Rumi and Hafez. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book The Greeks and the Persians written by George William Cox and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS written by REV. G. W. COX and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia as Found in the Adventures and Improvisations of Korroglou and in the Songs of the People Inhabiting the Shores of the Caspian Sea written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia as Found in the Adventures and Improvisations of Kurroglou and in the Songs of the People Inhabiting the Shores of the Caspian See written by Aleksander Chodzko and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia as Found in the Adventures and Improvisiations of Kurroglou the Banditministrel of Northen Persia and in the Songs of the People Inhabiting the Schores of the Caspian Sea written by Aleksander Borejko Chodźko and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia as Found in the Adventures and Improvisations of Kurroglou the Bandit Minstrel of Northern Persia and the Songs of the People Inhabiting the Shores of the Caspian Sea written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The popular educator written by Popular educator and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eminent Persians written by Abbas Milani and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 25th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution approached, Abbas Milani realized that very little, if any, attention had been given to the entire prerevolutionary generation. Political upheavals and a tradition of neglecting the history of past regimes have resulted in a cultural memory loss, erasing the contributions of a generation of individuals. Eminent Persians seeks to rectify that loss. Milani’s groundbreaking portrait of modern Iran reveals the country’s rich history through the lives of the men and women who forged it. Consisting of 150 profiles of the most important innovators in Iran between World War II and the Islamic Revolution, the book includes politicians, entrepreneurs, poets, artists, and thinkers who brought Iran into the modern era with brilliant success and sometimes terrible consequences. The biographies and essays weave a richly textured tapestry of lives, ideas, and events that reveals the true story of these decades in the life of a nation. The two volumes are divided into sections on politics, economics, and culture, each accompanied by an introductory essay that places the individual stories in their broader historical context. Drawn from interviews, extensive archival material, and private correspondence, Eminent Persians is a treasure trove of original documents, many appearing in print for the first time. Detailed sketches of personalities and personal foibles offer a compelling and highly readable account of this remarkable period of history on a human scale.
