The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History
Narrating the history of a nation from approximately 1,000,000 BCE to 2009 CE in 389 pages is a daunting and noteworthy task undertaken by the scholars who have contributed to The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History. This collection of sixteen short essays by distinguished anthropologists, arch...
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oai:doaj.org-article:6468b306f4b141b783b77a6ef91daa852021-12-02T17:49:34ZThe Oxford Handbook of Iranian History10.35632/ajis.v30i3.11042690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/6468b306f4b141b783b77a6ef91daa852013-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1104https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741Narrating the history of a nation from approximately 1,000,000 BCE to 2009 CE in 389 pages is a daunting and noteworthy task undertaken by the scholars who have contributed to The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History. This collection of sixteen short essays by distinguished anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, and philologists of the Iranian world divides Iranian history into three general periods: ancient, medieval, and modern. Chapters 1 to 7 address the ancient Iranian dynasties, chapters 8 to 13 talk about medieval Iran, and the last three focus on modern Iran. In the words of editor Touraj Daryaee, each chapter has been written in a way to provide “comprehensive information for students at the university level and for the uneducated layperson” (p. ii). Therefore, the book is intended to be more of an introduction rather than a reference book for scholarly research ... Mojtaba EbrahimianInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 30, Iss 3 (2013) |
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Narrating the history of a nation from approximately 1,000,000 BCE to 2009
CE in 389 pages is a daunting and noteworthy task undertaken by the scholars
who have contributed to The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History. This collection
of sixteen short essays by distinguished anthropologists, archaeologists,
historians, and philologists of the Iranian world divides Iranian history into
three general periods: ancient, medieval, and modern. Chapters 1 to 7 address
the ancient Iranian dynasties, chapters 8 to 13 talk about medieval Iran, and
the last three focus on modern Iran. In the words of editor Touraj Daryaee,
each chapter has been written in a way to provide “comprehensive information
for students at the university level and for the uneducated layperson” (p. ii).
Therefore, the book is intended to be more of an introduction rather than a
reference book for scholarly research ...
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