A history of Iran: empire of the mind

Preface

Acknowledgements

Origins : Zoroaster, the Achaemenids, and the Greeks

The Iranian revival : Parthians and Sassanids

Islam and invasions : the Arabs, Turks and Mongols : the Iranian reconquest of Islam, the Sufis, and the poets

Shi'ism and the Safavids

The fall of the Safavids, Nader Shah, the eighteenth-