The Oxford handbook of Iranian history /
Daryaee, Touraj,1967-
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Iranian Plateau from Paleolithic times to the rise of the Achaemenid Empire / Kamyar Abdi -- The Elamites / Daniel T. Potts -- Avestan society / Prods Oktor Skjærvø -- The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550-330 BCE) / A. Shapour Shahbazi -- Iran at the time of Alexander the Great and the Seleucids / Evangelos Venetis -- The Arsacid Empire / Edward Dąbrowa -- The Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE) / Touraj Daryaee -- Iran in the Early Islamic Period / Michael G. Morony -- Medieval Iran / Neguin Yavari -- The Mongols in Iran / George E. Lane -- Timurids and Turcomans : transition and flowering in the fifteenth century / Ali Anooshahr -- The Safavids in Iranian history (1501-1722) / Kathryn Babayan -- The Afghan interlude and the Zand and Afshar dynasties (1722-95) / Karman Scot Aghaie -- Qajar Iran (1795-1921) / Mansoureh Ettehadieh Nezam-Mafi -- The Pahlavi Era : Iranian modernity in glabal context / Afshi Matin-Asgari -- Iran after revolution (1979-2009) / Maziar Behrooz.