Tag: Persians

Free Download Nasrin Rahimieh, "Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History "
English | ISBN: 081562753X | 2001 | 208 pages | PDF | 48 MB
Missing Persians serves to articulate in elegant, vibrant prose the disparate and displaced narratives of five Persian subjects. Nasrin Rahimieh’s complex and nuanced arguments effectively demonstrate the links that her five figures have to a stable Persian identity-complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change. Rahimieh delineates the captivating histories of "missing" Persians from the sixteenth century to modern times and defines the arbitrary generic boundaries that isolate Persian biographies, autobiographies, travelogues, and social histories. Balancing their documentary and historical value with creative and fictional elements, she reads them as individual engagements with broader questions of Persian identity at different moments of the nation’s history. As modes of self-expression, these texts reveal both remnants of traditional Persian literary forms and new styles adopted through translations and readings in European literature and history. Even as it sheds new light on crucial points in cultural self-definition,

Free Download Persians: The Age of the Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Basic Books
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09X7D4WCM | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 18 hours and 42 minutes | 1022 Mb
A stunning portrait ofthe magnificent splendor andenduringlegacy of ancient Persia
The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan.From thepalace-city of Persepolis,Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, and their heirs reigned supreme for centuriesuntilthe conquests of Alexander of Macedonbrought the empire to aswift and unexpectedend inthe late 330s BCE.
InPersians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story ofthis dynasty and the world it ruled.Drawing on Iranian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, art,and archaeology, he shows how the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the world’s first superpower-one built, despite its imperial ambition, on cooperation and tolerance.This is the definitive history of theAchaemenid dynasty anditslegacies in modern-day Iran, a book that completely reshapes our understanding of the ancient world.

Free Download Abbas Milani, "Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979, Volume 1"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0815609078 | PDF | pages: 616 | 35.5 mb
As the 25th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution approached, Abbas Milani realized that very little, if any, attention had been given to the entire prerevolutionary generation. Political upheavals and a tradition of neglecting the history of past regimes have resulted in a cultural memory loss, erasing the contributions of a generation of individuals. Eminent Persians seeks to rectify that loss. Milani’s groundbreaking portrait of modern Iran reveals the country’s rich history through the lives of the men and women who forged it. Consisting of 150 profiles of the most important innovators in Iran between World War II and the Islamic Revolution, the book includes politicians, entrepreneurs, poets, artists, and thinkers who brought Iran into the modern era with brilliant success and sometimes terrible consequences. The biographies and essays weave a richly textured tapestry of lives, ideas, and events that reveals the true story of these decades in the life of a nation.