To write a literary history of Persia is to chronicle the thought and development of the land of Iran, from the time of the prophet Zoroaster and the laws of the Medes and Persians down to the latest ...

Introduction to the second edition -- The land and peoples of Persia -- Persia in the early Islamic centuries -- Turkish rule in Persia: the great Saljiiq Sultanate at its height (431-485/1040-1092) - ...