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Iran: From The Earliest Times to the Islamic Conquest by Roman Ghirshman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Iran: From The Earliest Times to the Islamic Conquest about?
Midway between Mesopotamia and India, the meeting- ground of Semitic and Aryan influence, the cradle of a great religion which, in either of its modified forms of Mithraism or Manichaeism, might easily have become that of the Western world of today, Iran — Persia — has for three millennia been a meeting-place of peoples and a battleground of civilizations. Its prehistory, now being uncovered by the efforts of Western and of Russian scholars, has not hitherto been exhaustively and competently dealt with between the covers of a single volume in a way that will appeal to the general reader. Professor Ghirshman, who has spent many years in field research in Persia, here outlines its story from the earliest times until the great wars in which over centuries the Persian Empire tried its strength with Greece and Rome, leaving the issue undecided until its unique Iranian civilization was reshaped and transformed by the Islamic conquest.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Roman Ghirshman
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Published
- 1954
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
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