Author: A J Arberry
Editor: A J Arberry
Publisher: Goodword books
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 421
ISBN/UPC (if available): 818757061X
Description
These pages illustrate some of the many ways in which Persian culture has influenced Persia's neighbors, and become a legacy to the whole world. As inevitably happens with rich legacies not secured by an attested will, this matter of cultural inheritance is apt to be hotly disputed; interested parties may make claims that take a deal of substantiating.
It is the arduous task of the editor of such a volume as this to enlist the support of a team of writers sufficiently enthusiastic to accept the largely gratuitous labor of crystallizing deep study and wide reading into an all too constricting compass, yet discreet enough the see life steadily and see it whole.
Contents
List of Plates
Persia and the Ancient World
Persia and Byzantium
Persia and the Arabs
Persia and India After the Conquest of Mahmud
The Islamic Art of Persia
Religion
The Persian Language
Persian Literature
Persian Carpets
Persian Gardens
Persian Science
Persia as Seen by the West
The Royame of Perse
Select Bibliography
Table of Dates
Index