Iran
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Persian Fire: First World Empire [Hardback]
T. A. Holland (Author)
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ISBN: 9780385513111
Published by : Doubleday
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a si... .... Learn More -
The Saljuqnama of Zahir al-Din Nishapuri: A critical text making use of the unique manuscript in the library of the Royal Asiatic Society [Hardback]
Zahir Al-Din Nihapuri (Author); A. H. Morton (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780906094488
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
The Saljuqnama is a historical work written around AD 1188 for Tughril III, the last of the Saljuq dynasty to rule in Iran. Zahir al-Din Nishapuri hoped to win favour at the court by presenting his history of the great early Saljuq kings and th... .... Learn More -
Excavations at the prehistoric mound of Chogha Bonut, Khuzestan, Iran: Seasons 1976/77, 1977/78, and 1996 [Hardback]
Abbas Alizadeh (Author)
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ISBN: 9781885923233
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 120
This volume presents the results of three seasons of excavations at Chogha Bonut, Lowland Susiana, in the modern-day province of Khuzestan, southwestern Iran. Susiana was a major contributor to the cultural development of the ancient Near East... .... Learn More -
Studies in Persian Art, Volume I [Hardback]
B. W. Robinson (Author)
Regular Price: £150.00
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ISBN: 9780907132431
Published by : Pindar Press
Over the last forty years, Basil Robinson has established a reputation as a leading authority on the art of Persia. His work on Persian manuscript illumination represents one of the most important contributions made in this century to the study of... .... Learn More -
Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia (1539-1542) [Paperback]
Michel Membre (Author); A. H. Morton (Author)
Regular Price: £18.00
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ISBN: 9780906094433
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
The description of his mission to the court of the Shah Tahmasp I of Persia by the Venetian Michele Membre is one of the most informative as well as one of the most individual of the few European accounts of 16th century Persia. .... Learn More -
Siraf XV: The Coins and Monumental Inscriptions [Paperback]
Nicholas Lowick (Author)
£10.00ISBN: 9780901477040
Published by : British Institute of Persian Studies
A catalogue of the Arabic coins and inscriptions found during excavations at Siraf during the 1960s and 70s. Siraf lies on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf, and its heyday was the ninth and tenth centuries AD when its merchants were tradin... .... Learn More -
Nush-i Jan 3: The Small Finds [Paperback]
John Curtis (Author)
£5.00ISBN: 9780901477033
Published by : British Institute of Persian Studies
Excavations were carried out at the Median and Parthian site at Tepe Nush-i Jan in Western Iran in the 60s and 70s. This volume describes the small finds: notably a hoard of pendants, beads, rings, ingots and odd lumps of silver and other bits ... .... Learn More -
Ancient Persia [Hardback]
Matt Waters (Author)
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ISBN: 9781107009608
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The Achaemenid Persian Empire, at its greatest territorial extent under Darius I (r.522-486 BCE), held sway over territory stretching from the Indus River Valley to southeastern Europe and from the western Himalayas to northeast Africa. In this bo... .... Learn More
