The Age of the Seljuqs

• Hardcover | Engels | Idea of Iran
• From their ancestral heartland by the shores of the Aral Sea, the medieval Oghuz Turks marched westwards in search of dominion. Their conquests led to... Lees meer

The Sasanian Era

• Hardcover | Engels | Idea of Iran | nr. 3
• This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series concentrates on the Sasanian period. Seizing power from the previous dynasty - the Parthians - the Sas... Lees meer

The Contest for Rule in Eighteenth-Century Iran

• Hardcover | Engels | Idea of Iran
• This volume explores the troubled eighteenth century in Iran, between the collapse of the Safavids and the establishment of the new Qajar dynasty in t... Lees meer

Iran After the Mongols

• Hardcover | Engels | Idea of Iran
• Following the devastating Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the domination of the Abbasids declined leading to successor polities, chiefly among the... Lees meer

The Age of the Parthians

• Hardcover | Engels | Idea of Iran | nr. 2
• The Parthians were nomadic horse-warriors who left few written records, concentrating rather on a rich oral and storytelling tradition. What knowledge... Lees meer

The Coming of the Mongols

• Hardcover | Engels | Idea of Iran | nr. 7
• The Mongol invasions in the first half of the thirteenth century led to profound and shattering changes to the historical trajectory of Islamic West A... Lees meer

The Rise of Islam

• Hardcover | Engels | Idea of Iran | nr. 4
• This final volume in the successful series "The Idea of Iran" addresses the astonishing impact made by Islam during and after the Arab conquest of Ira... Lees meer

Birth of the Persian Empire

Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Sarah Stewart

• Hardcover | Engels | Idea of Iran
• Of the great ancient civilizations, that of Persia is the least known and the most enigmatic. This book explores the formation of the first Persian Em... Lees meer

The Age of the Parthians

• Paperback | Engels | Idea of Iran
• The Parthians are a fascinating but little-known ancient civilization. In the mid-third century BCE a bold and ambitious leader called Arshak challeng... Lees meer

Early Islamic Iran

• Hardcover | Engels | Idea of Iran | nr. 5
• How did Iran remain distinctively Iranian in the centuries which followed the Arab Conquest? How did it retain its cultural distinctiveness after the ... Lees meer