Iran in World History

THE SASANIAN EMPIRE, 224–651 CE
Canepa, Matthew P. 
The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between 
Rome and Sasanian Iran
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh, and Sarah Stewart, eds. 
The Idea of Iran,
Volume 3: 
The 
Sasanian Era.
London: I. B. Tauris, 2008.
Daryaee, Touraj. 
The Sasanian Empire
. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009.
de la Vaissière, Étienne. 
Sogdian Traders: A History
. Leiden: Brill, 2005.
Dignas, Beate, and Engelbert Winter. 
Rome and Persia in Late 
Antiquity: Neighbours and Rivals
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
THE ISLAMIC CALIPHATE, 651–1258
Crone, Patricia. 
The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local 
Zoroastrianism
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh, and Sarah Stewart, eds. 
The Idea of Iran,
Volume 4: 
The 
Rise of Islam.
London: I. B. Tauris, 2009.
Daftary, Farhad. 
The Isma’ilis: Their History and Doctrines
. Cambridge: Cambridge 
University Press, 2007.
Frye, Richard. 
The Golden Age of Persia: The Arabs in the East
. London: Weidenfeld 
and Nicolson, 1975.
Herzig, Edmund, and Sarah Stewart, eds. 
The Idea of Iran,
Volume 5: 
Early Islamic 
Iran.
London: I. B. Tauris, 2011.
Hovanissian, Richard G., and Georges Sabbagh, eds., 
The Persian Presence in the 
Islamic World
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
LATER EMPIRES: THE IL-KHANS (1256–1335), THE TIMURIDS (1370–1507), 
AND THE SAFAVIDS (1501–1722)
Dale, Stephen F. 
The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
. 
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Manz, Beatrice Forbes. 
Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran
. 
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Matthee, Rudolph P. 
The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 
1600–1730
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Newman, Andrew J. 
Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire
. London:
I. B. Tauris, 2008.

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