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| | name = Shadows in the Desert: Persia at War | |||
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| | author = ] | |||
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| | country = ] | |||
| | language = ] | |||
| | genre = ] | |||
| | publisher = ] | |||
| | release_date = April 24, 2007 | |||
| | media_type = Print (]) | |||
| | pages = 320 | |||
| | isbn = 1846031087 | |||
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| '''''Shadows in the Desert: Persia at War''''' is a 2007 book by historian and linguist ] and one of the definitive works in the field of ]. It covers the history of early ] as well as that of ] from the ] until the ]. | |||
| ==Purpose== | |||
| The purpose of the book, according to Farrokh, is to remind people in ], where ] is seen as part of the "]", of its unacknowledged and unknown cultural diversity. He also states: | |||
| {{cquote|In the West, we suffer from what I call "The Alexander Mystique". We still believe that the Persians were permanently defeated and superseded by the Greeks and Romans. This misconception is being exasperated by the slow replacement of Persian language and Iranian studies with Arabic at the university level. It’s happening here in a subtle way while in Iran there have been ideologues and theocrats who have been actively disparaging pre-Islamic Iran since the 1970s. Still, there is a growing interest within Iran, especially among the youth, in Iran’s ancient heritage.<ref></ref>}} | |||
| ==Contents== | |||
| The text outlines Persia’s contributions to world civilization in areas such as ], ], ], ], ], the ], ], ], and garments, as well as giving a detailed description of Iran's ancient history. The book also includes many pictures of artifacts, maps, and soldiers, many of which are rare. | |||
| According to the publisher: | |||
| {{Cquote|The ruins of Persepolis evoke the best-known events of ancient Persia's history: Alexander the Great's defeat of Darius III, his conquest of the Achaemenid empire, and the burning of the great palace complex at Persepolis. However, most of the history of ancient Persia remains as mysterious today as it was to contemporary Western scholars. Compared to the world-famous Alexander, the many wars won by the Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sassanian empires, and their revolutionary military technology, have been almost forgotten in the sands of the East. | |||
| In its day, Persia was a superpower to rival Greece and Rome, and conflict between them spanned over a millennium. Through these wars, and trade, these foes learnt from each other, not only adopting elements of military technology, but influences in the arts, architecture, religion, technology and learning. In this beautifully illustrated book, Dr Kaveh Farrokh narrates the history of Persia from before the first empires, through their wars with East and West to the fall of the Sassanians. He also delves into the forgotten cultural heritage of the Persians, spread across the world through war and conquest, which, even after the fall of the Sassanians, continued to impact upon the Western world.<ref></ref>}} | |||
| ==Structure== | |||
| ''Shadows in the Desert: Persia at War'' is divided into three parts, each of which themselves contain several sections. It also contains an introduction and a chronology. | |||
| *Part 1: The Achaemenids | |||
| **1 Before the Achaemenids | |||
| **2 Cyrus the Great and the early Achaemenids | |||
| **3 Darius the Great | |||
| **4 Xerxes and Limits of Empire | |||
| **5 The Achaemenid Empire from Artaxerxes I to the rise of Macedon | |||
| **6 Darius III and the fall of the Empire | |||
| *Part 2: The ] | |||
| **7 The Seleucids and the rise of the Parthians | |||
| **8 Parthia challenges Rome | |||
| **9 Parthia from Mark Antony to the Alan invasions | |||
| **10 Emperor Trajan's bid to destroy Parthia | |||
| **11 The decline and fall of Parthia | |||
| *Part 3: The ] | |||
| **12 The rise of the Sassanian Dynasty | |||
| **13 Shapur II: a new revival of Sassanian Persia | |||
| **14 The tumultuous Fifth Century | |||
| **15 The Kavad era | |||
| **16 Khosrow I, renaissance and revival | |||
| **17 The final glory and the decline of the Empire | |||
| **18 Downfall of the Sassanians and the Islamic conquests | |||
| **19 The legacy of Persia after the Islamic conquests | |||
| The book also contains a foreword by ], titled "The Mighty Persian Warriors" | |||
| ==External links== | |||
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| ==References== | |||
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