Ehsan Yarshater
The Cambridge History of Iran
Cambridge University
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Iran In seven volumes Volume 3(1) The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian Periods edited by Ehsan Yarshater Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies Columbia University, New York
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The Cambridge history of Iran. Vol. 3 : The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian periods
I. Iran _ History I. Yarshater, Ehsan 955 Ds 272
ISBN-13 978-0-520092 -hardback I S B N -10 0-5 21-2 0 0 9 2 - x hardback
Board of Editors
Sir Harold Bailey (Chairman) Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit University of Cambridge
Basil Gray (Vice-Chairman) Formerly Keeper of the Oriental Antiquities British Museum
P. W. Avery Lecturer in Persian University of Cambridge
C. E. Bosworth Professor of Arabic Studies University of Manchester
W. B. Fisher Professor of Geography University of Durham
Ilya Gershevitch Reader in Iranian Studies University of Cambridge
Mahmoud Sana'i Emeritus Professor of Psychology University of Tehran
H. S. G. Darke (Editorial Secretary) Lecturer in Persian University of Cambridge |