A well-written overview of the basic events and movements in the history of Iran. Just enough detail. Excellent for general interest. From 3500 BC to the present.
It also provides some insight into the long-lasting underlying forces in Iranian politics and history - the rise of clerical power, the link between the landowner class and the clerical establishment, and their resistance to political and social change.
There is also an interesting mention of Mithraism and its influence on Jews living within the Sassanian empire leading to some central concepts in the emergence of Christianity.
To find:
Hushang Golshiri - modern novelist
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