Iran in World History

 
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The City: A World History
Democracy: A World History
Food: A World History
Empires: A World History
The Family: A World History
Genocide: A World History
Health and Medicine: A World History
Migration: A World History
Race: A World History
Technology: A World History
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Abadan, 108
Abbas I, 76–78, 80
Abbasid Empire, 49–50
Abd us-Samad Khan, 88
Abu Ali b. Sina. 
See
Avicenna
Abu Hanifa, 52
Abu Muslim, 49, 50
Achaemenid Empire, xii, 1, 19, 20, 26, 33. 
See also
Persian Empire
Adur Gushnasp temple, 42
Afghans, 76, 79–82, 88, 121
Afghanistan, xii, xiii, 4, 25, 26, 62, 64, 70, 
76, 82, 88, 118–119, 121
Afshar tribe, 80
Agha Mohammad Khan, 84
Aghdashlu, Aydin, 105
Agriculture, 7, 19, 20, 66, 80, 87, 89, 
102, 106
Ahmad Shah Durrani, 82, 121
Ahmad Shah (Ghajar), 93, 96
Ahmadinejad, Mahmud, 118–120
Ahrar, Khwaja Ubaydallah, 70
Ahura Mazda, 
see
Mazda
‘Ain Jalut, Battle of, 66
Airyanam Vaejo
(Iranian mythological 
homeland), 1, 3
Akbar I (“the Great”), 73
Akhbari school, 79
Akkadian texts, 8, 16
Al-Azhar seminary, 64
Al-e Ahmad, Jalal, 102
Al-Qaeda, 118
Alborz Mountains, 11, 12
Alexander III of Macedon (“the Great”), 
21, 24, 43, 82
Alexandria-on-the Oxus, 26
Algerian Liberation Front, 106
Ali b. Abi Talib, 48, 52, 74, 76
Ali Beg Rumlu, 75
Ali Ghapu, 78
Allahverdi Khan Bridge, 78
Altai Mountains, 11
Americans, 103
Amir Kabir, 87
An Lushan, 61
Anahita, 2, 26, 31, 37, 44
Anatolia, xiii, 5, 14, 17, 19, 22, 25, 31, 33, 
39, 61, 63, 67, 69, 74–75
Andronovo culture, 3, 5
Anglo-Afghan Wars, 88
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), 
93, 100
Animation, 6
Angra Mainyu, 10
Ankara, Battle of, 69
Anshan, 7, 15, 16
Aq Qoyunlu. 
See
White Sheep dynasty
Arab conquests, xii, 27, 33, 40, 45–46, 59
Arabic language, xiii, 55, 56, 58
Arabs, 45–47, 49; chauvinism of, 56
Aramaic language, 18, 19
Araxes River, 77, 95
Architecture, 69–70
Ardeshir I, 32–33
Armenia, 34, 63, 69
Armenians, 9, 31, 64, 77, 90, 92
Army, 19, 21, 22, 42, 61, 62, 63, 64, 77, 
79, 81, 84, 88
Artabanus V, 32–33
Artaxerxes II, 26
Artillery, 75, 81
Aryan ideology, 98
Aryans, xiii, 1–2, 19
Assassins, 64
Assyrians, 7, 12, 14, 16, 20, 82
Astronomy, 67, 70
Asylum, 82
Atatürk, 96–97
Athens, 18, 21, 40
Attar, Farid od-din, 67
Augustine of Hippo, 35
Australia, 120–121
Avesta
(Zoroastrian sacred text), 2, 10, 
12–13, 36, 124
Avestan language, 10
Avicenna, 53–54
“Axis of Evil,” 118
Azadi Square. 
See
Freedom Square
Azerbaijan, 50, 67, 74–75, 86, 95; Soviet 
Republic of, 99
Bab, the, 86–87
Babak, 50
Baba Khan. 
See
Fath Ali Shah
Babur, 71, 73, 75
Babylonia, 15, 25, 35
Babylonians, xiv, 18; Babylonian 
religion, 16
Index

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I n d e x
144
Backgammon, 6, 40
Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex 
(BMAC), 4–5
Bactrians, 19, 58
Badakhshan, 6
Badasht, 86
Baghdad, 50, 53, 55, 56, 62, 69
Baha’i faith, 86–87, 113, 117
Bahamas, 109
Baha’u’llah, 86–87
Bahram I, 36–37
Bahram II, 37
Bahram Chubin, 41
Bakhtiar, Shapur, 109
Bakhtiari tribe, 98
Baku, 80
Balkans, xii, 61, 123–124
Balkh, 56, 67, 82.