Avicennas penchant for categorizing becomes immediately evident in the canon, which is divided into five books. The author has taken a very detailed look at all the information available for the era, including recently published coin and seal data. Nasir uddin tusi is also a wellknown persian poet who wrote on philosophy and logic. How are the persian, arab, indian and turkish cultures. Persian traditions permeated the abbasid governance system. I second quora users opinion and highly recommend the cambridge history of iran series.
In the history of medicine, islamic medicine is the science of medicine developed in the islamic golden age, and written in arabic, the lingua franca of islamic civilization islamic medicine preserved, systematized and developed the medical knowledge of classical antiquity, including the major traditions of hippocrates, galen and dioscorides. Persian arab generally refers to people who are of both mixed arab and persian ethnic or cultural background. This pioneering work advanced the tradition of historical writing. Tenthcentury persian poet ferdowsis long epic poem sahname book of kings, which is for the most part. Olmstead was the first author to give an account of the persians from their perspective. The author of the sword of persia and revolutionary iran, axworthy publishes widely in the field of iranian history.
Persian literature persian literature classical poetry. The abbasid caliphate 750821 used persians as viziers and in many of the states positions. However, due to this difference iran has a higher population density of 45sq. This shows a tradition of literature which i think is universal. Here the arabic and early persian languages coalesce to become, from the 10th century, what is now known as persian combining words from both sources and using the arabic script. Hostility between iranians and arabs betrays history the. Arab muslims conquered the empire in the seventh century ad, and the subsequent islamization of iran led to the. These are referred to as persian arabs in arabic arab alfuras. The history of the arabs begins in the midninth century bc, which is the earliest known attestation of the old arabic language. Too often people tend to disregard iranian history and its ancient empires as.
Several readers objected to slates characterization of iran as an arab neighbor in a dossier on the saudi royal family. Free book downloads in persian internet cannot be censored by iri. A captivating guide to the history of persia, starting from the ancient achaemenid, parthian, and sassanian empires to the safavid, afsharid, and qajar dynasties. This article is concerned with the history of the ancient persian empire, in which presentday iran has its roots. For them, poems that were not written according to the rules of arabic prosody did not count as serious poetry. Browse, buy, and download history books from apple books.
Persian gulf states study 1 united states marine corps. History a thousand years of the persian book exhibitions. No book which takes years to write and another year to bring to publication can hope to keep up with events in iran. History of violence between arabs and persians goes back to 2700 bc. Discover librarianselected research resources on iranian history from the questia online library, including. They had erased a great and enduring regional power, persia. The rise of muslims coincided with an unprecedented political, social, economic, and military weakness in persia. Explore groundbreaking research and fascinating reallife stories with these 100 mustread books about ancient history. The best books on understanding the arab world five books. The following is a mixed list of fictional west asian, middle eastern, arab, jewish, turkish, persian, israeli, and north african superheroes. This book translates the sections on preislamic persia in three muslim arabic chronicles, those of ahmad alyaqubi d. The best books on understanding the arab world five.
The persian empire was founded by cyrus the great in the sixth century b. Bahrain, small arab state situated in a bay on the southwestern coast of the persian gulf. Few events in history have had so swift, profound and farreaching an impact. The first persian empire, founded by cyrus the great around 550 b. Your next choice, eugene rogans the arabs, looks at the political history of the arab. The parthians and then the sasanians made ctesiphon, on the eastern bank of the tigris in central mesopotamia, their capital and the centre from which iranian power radiated over aramaic, and then increasingly arab, iraq. The arab peoples are united by an identity of a shared culture and history. The encyclopedia britannica defines an arab as one whose native language is arabic. Includes pictures includes ancient accounts includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading includes a table of contents during the first half of the 1st millennium ce, an empire arose in persia that extended its power and influence to mesopotamia in the east, arabia in the south, the caucasus mountains in the north, and as far east as india. The arabs appear to have been under the vassalage of the neoassyrian empire. Furthermore, iranians played a decisive role in paving the way for an islamic caliphate that is not dominated by the arab component. A history is panoramic view of 500 years of arab history, and as such, is both a challenge and a rewarding endevor to read.
Sibawayh, a nonnative speaker of arabic, wrote the first book on arabic grammar, alkitab fi anna. From the tenth to the fourteenth centuries a number of persian historians wrote in arabic, the common academic language of the time, including the persian historian abu jafar muhammad ibn jarir altabaris 839923, author of tarikh alrusul wa almuluk, more commonly known as tarikh altabari history of tabari. Arabs are distinguished from other people on the basis of culture, genealogy, and language. Although the stories are arab, persian and indian, it is a book that is associated with the arab world and is different from the arab world that you see on tv, which is all about violence and war and things like that.
The muslim conquest of persia, also known as the arab invasion of iran, led to the fall of the sasanian empire of iran in 651 and the eventual decline of the zoroastrian religion. Displayed is a page from the gathas, in the middle persian language pahlavi, and its translation into modern persian. Here islam outgrows its arab roots and becomes an international religion. This was particularly true for the eastern parts of the country, for regions like khorasan and transoxiana. The arab leagues capital is cairo whereas irans capital is tehran. The uninformed fails to comprehend that the persian arab wars did not occur overnight and the persians did not surrender right away.
List of books and articles about ancient persia online. The blood of flowers by anita amirrezvani, the persian expedition by xenophon, persian fire. Sibawayh, a nonnative speaker of arabic, wrote the first book on arabic grammar, a lkitab fi anna. It is an archipelago consisting of bahrain island and some 30 smaller islands. History of violence between arabs and persians goes back.
But the evident virtues of a history of the arab peoples notwithstanding, close scrutiny of the book reveals some major deficiencies, having to do with its static quality, its tendency to gloss over problems, and its hidden agenda. The classical persian poets and theoreticians saw the aim of their art primarily as the continuation of arabic poetry in another language. The oldest surviving sample of early islamic bookbinding is a fragment made of cedar wood dating back to 9th century egypt. Erosion of arab hegemony and the formation of local kingdoms. History of ancient arabia and its relations with the great civilizations and powers of the period the babylonian, persian, hellenistic, roman, sasanian and byzantine empires, up to just before the rise of islam and the caliphate. Several local persian kingdoms came to power and established independent states.
From the tenth to the fourteenth centuries a number of persian historians wrote in arabic, the common academic language of the time. List of books and articles about iranian history online. This iron age dynasty, sometimes called the achaemenid empire, was a global hub of culture, religion, science. Masnavi rumi, the great book of mawlana jalaluddin rumi, includes original persian with urdu translation by qazi sajjad hussain digitized by. Persia became iran in 1935 when the government of persia asked all other countries to begin using the name iran, which is the word for persia in the persian language. He was writing in persian, but claimed to be translating a book in arabic, which he had discovered among the. Arab people, or arabs, are those people who inhabit the arab world. Brief persian history or persian literature folk fest. Zafar namah or book of victory is his renowned e book which incorporates of seventyfive,000 couplets.
And its interesting because a lot of what we learn about ancient persia, its accounts from the greeks, from folks like herodotus, but during the time of classical greece, greece was really a bit of a sideshow, it was really this kind of thorn in the side of persia. The first book contains four treatises, the first of which examines the four elements earth, air, fire, and water in light of greek physician galen of pergamums four humours blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. Persian history largely begins with king cyrus the great, who is credited with the liberation of babylon in 528 bc, and the oldest known charter of human rights, referred to as the cyrus cylinder, which is housed in londons british museum. Difference between arabs and persians difference between. The blurbs for books about ancient history are taken, whole or in part, from. Two centuries of silence is a book written in persian by abdolhossein zarrinkoub, a prominent iranian scholar of irans culture, history and literature. Mar 21, 2020 hameed ullah mostofi was also a famed creator of persian history. This is a short book, it can be helpful in your choice to get deeper into the persian civilization without reading first four hundred pages books.
Papermaking contributed to the flourishing of islamic civilization in the middle ages, by providing readily accessible writing materials, and to the proliferation of the islamic book and the craft of bookbinding. Although the stories are arab, persian and indian, it is a book that is. It is believed this may have been the result of iranian ties to nazi germany, who would have supported this more nationalist name over a one that was technically foreign. Arab world is considered to be located in north africa and western asia. Khalid ibn walids declaration to the persians in year 12 ad633 a. Most arabs speak arabic, which is a language and not meant to refer to the people, though you could say arabic speaking people. Near east collection islamic books and bookbinding yale. I have therefore dropped a chapter on the postwar years because i could only record in it confused and ever graver incidents without being able, at such close range, to assess their meaning. History of iran in 5 minutes 3200 bce 20 ce youtube. The cypress tree is her first book, telling the story of 20thcentury iran through three generations of iranian women kamin, her mother and her grandmother. A captivating guide to the history of persia, starting from the ancient achaemenid, parthian, and sassanian empires to the safavid, afsharid, and qajar dynasties, you will discover topics such as.
Holland provides a brief history of the persian empire and also of sparta and athens. The subject covers more than twelve centuries, about a dozen empires and a vast territory, stretching from spain in the west to the islands of indonesia in the pacific ocean. Finally, the rivers of iran, racing swiftly through. This is the largest iranian online library in both english and persian languages, with books on history, science, culture, philosophy, religion, iran and other subjects, banned by islamic republic of iran.
Its name is from the arabic term albahrayn, meaning two seas. Studies in ancient persian history rle iran a p kershasp this volume lays the foundation of a correct view of ancient persian history, which, in the authors opinion, had hitherto been approached from a biased standpoint. Tim mackintoshsmith is a distinguished scholar of arabic language, literature and culture, and a. History of the kings of the persians in three arabic. He begins well before cyrus the great and runs through the entire achaemenid period recounting the conquest and administration of the empire until its demise by alexanders onslaught. The shatt al arab forms part of the iraniraq border. The holy land, from the persian to the arab conquests, 536 b.
The article iran contains a description of the geography and economy of the modern country and a short account of its history since the arab invasion of the 7th cent. Persians resisted the brutal and blood thirsty arab invaders for 16 years of battle and resistance. A riveting, comprehensive history of the arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone this kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of arab history and shines a light on the footloose arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. A riveting, comprehensive history of the arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone this kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of arab history and shines a light on the footloose arab peoples and. Since the arab league is much larger, it covers an area of around.
Books written in persian and books about iran and persian culture in farsi and english for sale. The reference book says the term historically included the nomadic semitic inhabitants of the arabian peninsula and in modern usage encompasses the arabicspeaking people stretching from mauritania to southwestern iran. This book translates the sections on preislamic persia in three muslim arabic chronicles, those of ahmad alya. Oct 09, 2014 the greatest arabic linguist and grammarian in history was in fact persian. In each epoch, hourani not only covers the political history in question, but also social, philosophical and religious developments. The books and other literature of this period are very rare, but, ferdowsi a famend persian poet defined it in a better manner in his book shah namaeheferdowsi. The work is a historical account of the events and circumstances of the first two centuries of the iranian history following the arab conquest of iran. Persian people, or persians, are those people who are a part or group of iranian peoples. The book of kings is a long epic poem written by the persian poet ferdowsi between c.
A captivating guide to the neopersian empire that ruled before the arab conquest of persia and the rise of islam ancient civilizations. His book, the histories became part of western folklore only recently. Properly grasping this distinction is critical to any understanding of iran and its dynamic role in the contemporary middle east. Ad their control was weakened when arab invaders took 636 the capital, ctesiphon. History of ancient arabia before the rise of islam and the. Zaki islamic civilization developed a construct of history that labeled the preislamic period the age of ignorance and projected islam as the sole source of all that was civilized and used that construct so effectively in its rewriting of history that the peoples of middle east lost all knowledge of the. Hostility between iranians and arabs betrays history iran s future stability is not dependent merely on rapprochement with the us, but on repairing relations with the arabs faisal al yafai. Origins, authorship, and preservation translation of arabic original. The sasanianparthian confederacy and the arab conquest of iran. In preislamic times, there were many arabs who lived in the cultural sphere of persia and used persian as their written language.
The religious texts of the zoroastrian faith of ancient persia are referred to as the avesta. The history of the arabs begins in the mid ninth century bc, which is the earliest known. Persian empires ancient history, ancient history, books. From them also, thrust up in the wake of the volcanic activity of late pliocene times, came diorite and obsidian, both highly prized in antiquity. A captivating guide to the first persian empire founded by cyrus the great, and how this empire of ancient persia fought against the ancient greeks in the grecopersian wars. The oldest part is the gathas, which includes a collection of hymns and one of the oldest examples of religious poetry attributed to the prophet zoroaster ca. Although the book is entitled a history of the arab peoples, it also covers a great deal of persian and turkishottoman history. Persian muslims are as much involved in the life of this thriving place as arab muslims. List of books and articles about iranian history online research. He ruled the middle east, central asia, africa and well beyond the danube river in europe.
Abd allah ibn sina, born 980, near bukhara, iran now in uzbekistandied 1037, hamadan, iran, muslim physician, the most famous and influential of the philosopherscientists of the medieval islamic world. Persian history dates back to the development of ancient mesopotamia, the land demarcated by the tigris and euphrates rivers the achaemenid persian empire was the largest that the ancient world had seen, extending from anatolia and egypt across western asia to northern india and central asia. This monumental work was central in setting the standard for explaining arabic grammar, especially to non arab converts to islam. Persian culture has so many contributions to the world in so many fields of arts and science, what proofs the strenght of their culture to not be erased despite centuries of arab dominion. Jul 31, 2017 this list of 100 mustread books about ancient history reflects these changes. As we have it today, the chach nama is the work of. A history of the arab peoples book by albert hourani. The characters are sorted by the comics publishing house where they originated. The greatest arabic linguist and grammarian in history was in fact persian. This monumental work was central in setting the standard for explaining arabic grammar, especially to nonarab converts to islam. Kamin mohammadis top 10 iranian books books the guardian. Before 1850, however, the west had a very favorable and true impression of the humane federal persian empire. One of prophet muhammeds early followers and disciples, salman alfarsi, was persian.
The arab conquest of persia led to a period of extreme urbanisation in iran, starting with the ascension of the abbasid dynasty and ending in the 11th century ce. Persians and arabs are two distinct ethnic groups two peoples with different languages, cultures, and histories. If you want to discover the captivating history of iran, then keep reading. Iran also called persia, and officially the islamic republic of iran is a country in western asia. Influence of arabic language arab conquests have conquered pars and environment. To paraphrase karl marx, every arab has an arab empire in him. Apple books has lots of ways to help you find history books youll love. Persian and arab histories only merge in the 7th century with the islamic conquest of persia. Persia was the place where the first empire was formed on earth. Many people in bahrain, kuwait, united arab emirates and the other arab states around the persian gulf are of persian ancestry. Eugene rogan is an excellent writer, and despite its length, the book is not stuffy, boring or hard to read. It was not until about 1850 that america embraced herodotus as the leading authority on persian history. The history of the kings of the persians in three arabic chronicles.
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