The Cambridge History of Iran - III

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Weşan : Cambridge University Press	Tarîx & Cîh : 2000, Cambridge
Pêşgotin :	Rûpel : 864
Wergêr :	ISBN : 13 978-0-520092
Ziman : Îngilîzî	Ebad : 305x435mm
Hejmara FIKP : Liv. En.	Mijar : Dîrok

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Versions The Cambridge History of Iran - I [Cambridge, 1968] The Cambridge History of Iran - II [Cambridge, 1989] The Cambridge History of Iran - III [Cambridge, 2000] The Cambridge History of Iran - IV [Cambridge, 1975] The Cambridge History of Iran - V [Cambridge, 1968] The Cambridge History of Iran - VI [Cambridge, 1986] The Cambridge History of Iran - III Ehsan Yarshater Cambridge University Press This volume encompasses a time span of about one thousand years, from the emergence of the Seleucid empire in 312 B.C. to the collapse of the Sasanian empire in A.D. 651. The period saw the rise and fall of three mighty dynasties, the Seleucids, the Arsacids, and the Sasanians, as well as the formation of a number of states and empires to the east, notably the Greco-Bactrian kingdom and the Kushan empire. In the religious sphere the millennium witnessed the expansion of gnostic tendencies in western Iran and Mesopotamia, culminating in the appearance and spread of Manichaeism; the consolidation of Zoroastrianism under the Sasanians as an authoritarian state Church; and the birth and suppression of the egalitarian movement of the Mazdakites. In more general terms, the era saw the ascendency and demise of Hellenism in Iran; the development of a distinct Iranian art-style with wide impact; the evolution of a national saga; the development of local systems of writing in the major provinces; and finally, the shaping of an administrative system and court procedures which were to play an important role in the 'Abbasid caliphate and its eastern vassal states. .....

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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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First published 1983
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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