Format: 155 x 215 mm
Pages: 278
Binding: Hardcover with jacket 
Language: English
Publisher: Scorpion Publishing, London
Year: 1991
ISBN: 0 905906 94 2
Condition: As New 

ABOUT THIS BOOK

This book follows the wake of the kings who ruled Iran for 3,000 years. It aims to present in a single volume an extraordinarily rich and diverse history. Written for the non-specialist reader, it recalls the splendor of the great dynasties, the power of their kings and their patronage of the arts which contributed so eloquently to Iran's culture. A variety of traditional, classical and modern sources are used to provide an entertaining and informative history of an an area which remains an important and vital component in the political, economic and social structure of the Middle East.

The work passes from biblical antiquity and the times of Cyrus, Darius and Alexander the Great across the historical landscape to the age of Islam whose influence shaped the pattern of power and culminated in the founding of the modern Islamic Republic of Iran. Not only the names of great kings and conquerors, such as Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and Sha Abbas, pass before the reader, but also those of Umar Khayyam, Avicenna and Hafiz. This is a history that encapsulates that undefinable quality of human endeavor which few countries can emulate and which we call civilization.