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"Book of Kings" (in PersianShah-nameh) when he wrote about the mythical period of the Iranian history. Mithraism reached its peak in this period and eventually spread from Iran to the Roman Empire. There are striking similarities between rituals of Mithraism and Varzesh-e Pahlavani. Even ...
An armlet given to the Pahlavan of the nation by the Shah on the first day of the Iranian new year (March 21st) as a recognition of his Pahlavani championship. Ferdowsi The greatest Iranian mythical poet/historian and the author of the epic work Shah-nameh, the Book of Kings. Gol Rizan...
Abu Raihan Mohammad Ibn Ahmad Biruni was one of the well-known figures associated with the court of King Mahmoud Ghaznavid, who was one of the famous Muslim kings of the 11th century A.D. Biruni was a versatile scholar and scientist who had equal facility in physics, metaphysics, mathematics...
Zia-Ebrahimi’s study centers on two Iranian intellectuals, Akhundzadeh and Kermani, and meticulously illustrates their incorporation of European racial theories within the Iranian context. His analysis demonstrates how influential works like Pedro Teixera’s “Kings of Persia,” John Malcolm’s “Histo...
Harris M (1977) Cannibals and kings; the origins of cultures. William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, Glasgow Google Scholar Hole F (2007) The archaeology of western Iran (Persian translation). Z Baseti, Trans. Samt, Tehran Hunt RC, Hunt E, Ahmed GM, Bennett JW, Cleek RK, Coy PEB, Glick...
The Era of Nabonassar doesn't cover much of Mesopotamian history, but it does cover the history of the calendar that we know about; and Ptolemy's "Canon of Kings," a list of rulers from Nabonassar to the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius, was absolutely fundamental for ancient chronology -- ...
The first record of a written text of the Avesta comes from the Middle Persian language (Pahlavi) writer Arda Viraf, in his book the Arda Viraf Nameh. In it, he writes that the the Persian Achaemenian kings (c. 700 - 300 BCE) commissioned the commitment of the Avesta to writing and...
Yukiyo Kasai Central Asian and Iranian Influence in Old Uyghur Buddhist Manuscripts: Book Forms and Donor Colophons Abstract: Two different Buddhist traditions played an essential role in introduc- ing Buddhism to the Uyghurs – the Tocharian and the Chinese – both of which cultivated their ...
From Iranian Myth to Folk Narrative and the The Legend of the Dragon-Slayer Spinning Maiden in the Persian Book of the KingsMyth, From IranianNarrative, FolkLegend, TheMaiden, SpinningBook, PersianAuthor, KingsIlona, KingaSource, Takeshita