The legacy of Persia.
Series: [The Legacy series]
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1953
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: Iran -- Civilization
Notes: Bibliography: p. [388]
Table of contents: title: Persia and the ancient world / J. H. Iliffe, Director of the City of Liverpool Museums -- Persia and Byzantium / D. Talbot Rice, Watson-Gordon professor of the history of fine art in the University of Edinburgh -- Persia and the Arabs / R. Levy, professor of Persian In the University of Cambridge -- Persia and India after the conquest of Mahmud / H Goetz, Director of Baroda State Museum -- The Islamic art of Persia / D. Barrett, of the & British Museum -- Religion / G. M. Wickens, lecturer in Arabic in the University of Cambridge -- The Persian language / H. W. Bailey, professor of Sanskrit in the University of Cambridge -- Persian literature / A. J. Arberry, Sir Thomas Adams’s professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge -- Persian carpets / A. C. Edwards -- Persian gardens / The Hon. V. Sackville-West -- Persian science / C. Elgood -- Persia as seen by the west / L. Lockhart -- ‘The Royame of Perse’ / J. E. Heseltine -- Select bibliography -- Table of dates.