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Author | : Sally Pomme Clayton |
Publisher | : Tiny Owl Publishing |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2019-05-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781910328439 |
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In a bustling marketplace in Iran, a traditional storyteller regales her audience with the tale of Prince Zal and the Simorgh. High up on the Mountain of Gems lives the Simorgh, a wise phoenix whose flapping wings disperse the seeds of life across the world. When King Sam commands that his long-awaited newborn son Zal be abandoned because of his white hair, the Simorgh adopts the baby and raises him alongside her own chicks and teaches him everything she knows. But when the king comes to regret his actions, Prince Zal will learn that the most important lesson of all is forgiveness. In this special edition, the story has been set to music, with each instrument representing a different character. You can download music composed by Amir Eslami (ney), Nilufar Habibian (qanun), Saeid Kord Mafi (santur), and Arash Moradi (tanbur). The music accompanies Sally Pomme Clayton's stunning narration of this classic tale from the Shahnameh.
Author | : David Stuttard |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674988272 |
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A vivid, novelistic history of the rise of Athens from relative obscurity to the edge of its golden age, told through the lives of Miltiades and Cimon, the father and son whose defiance of Persia vaulted Athens to a leading place in the Greek world. When we think of ancient Greece we think first of Athens: its power, prestige, and revolutionary impact on art, philosophy, and politics. But on the verge of the fifth century BCE, only fifty years before its zenith, Athens was just another Greek city-state in the shadow of Sparta. It would take a catastrophe, the Persian invasions, to push Athens to the fore. In Phoenix, David Stuttard traces Athens’s rise through the lives of two men who spearheaded resistance to Persia: Miltiades, hero of the Battle of Marathon, and his son Cimon, Athens’s dominant leader before Pericles. Miltiades’s career was checkered. An Athenian provincial overlord forced into Persian vassalage, he joined a rebellion against the Persians then fled Great King Darius’s retaliation. Miltiades would later die in prison. But before that, he led Athens to victory over the invading Persians at Marathon. Cimon entered history when the Persians returned; he responded by encouraging a tactical evacuation of Athens as a prelude to decisive victory at sea. Over the next decades, while Greek city-states squabbled, Athens revitalized under Cimon’s inspired leadership. The city vaulted to the head of a powerful empire and the threshold of a golden age. Cimon proved not only an able strategist and administrator but also a peacemaker, whose policies stabilized Athens’s relationship with Sparta. The period preceding Athens’s golden age is rarely described in detail. Stuttard tells the tale with narrative power and historical acumen, recreating vividly the turbulent world of the Eastern Mediterranean in one of its most decisive periods.
Author | : Edith Nesbit |
Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781853261558 |
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Five British children discover in their new carpet an egg, which hatches into a phoenix that takes them on a series of fantastic adventures around the world.
Author | : Florence Hodous |
Publisher | : Gingko Library |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2018-07-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1909942898 |
Download The Phoenix Mosque and the Persians of Medieval Hangzhou Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the early 1250s, Mongke Khan, grandson and successor of the mighty Mongol emperor, Genghis Khan, sent out his younger brothers Qubilai and Hulegu to consolidate his grip on power. Hulegu completed the conquest of Iran while Qubilai continued to erode the power of the Song emperors of southern China. In 1276, he finally forced their submission and peacefully occupied their capital, Hangzhou. The city enjoyed a revival as the cultural capital of a united China and was soon filled with traders, adventurers, artists, entrepreneurs, and artisans from throughout the great Mongol Empire, including a prosperous, influential and seemingly welcome community of Persians. In 1281, one of their number, Ala al-Din, built the Phoenix Mosque in the heart of the city where it still stands today. This study of the mosque and the Ju-jing Yuan cemetery, which today is a lake-side public park, casts light on an important and transformative period in Chinese history, and perhaps the most important period in Chinese Islamic history. The book is published in the Persian Studies Series of the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS).
Author | : Penelope Hobhouse |
Publisher | : Kales Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780967007663 |
Download The Gardens of Persia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Looks at the evolution of Persian gardens from ancient times to the present day and their impact on modern garden design.
Author | : A. T. Olmstead |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 671 |
Release | : 2022-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226826333 |
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Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. "The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."—M. Rostovtzeff
Author | : Matteo Compareti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : A. B. Sina |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2008-09-02 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1596432071 |
Download Prince of Persia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The past and future are woven together in this epic tale of a prince, an evil vizier, a princess, and a prophecy in ancient Persia.
Author | : Phyllis G. Jestice |
Publisher | : Gareth Stevens |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781433919732 |
Download Ancient Persian Warfare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume provides a basic introduction to warfare as it was practiced in ancient Persia.
Author | : Pascal Mahvi |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1770672206 |
Download Deadly Secrets of Iranian Princes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Every once in a while, someone with unprecedented access to the truth, lifts the veil in a memoir so stark and revealing that it has the power to reframe history and our perceptions of those who defined it. Pascal Mahvi's book is one such to me. The Deadly Secrets of Iranian Princes, which spans three decades, is Mahvi's candid account of his struggle growing up straddling two cultures and in the process reconciling his own identity both as an American and a descendant of Iranian royalty. When the newly appointed Shah of Iran reaches out to Mahvi's father to become his chief advisor and confidante, young Pascal is thrust into the controversial leader's elite inner-sanctum during one of the most pivotal periods in history. The author's story of survival is at once both riveting and poignant, offering rare, intimate glimpses of the Shah at his most human away from the glare of the spotlight. It is also a window into the surprising strengths and frailties of some of the world's most famous celebrities from the deeply personal perspective of someone who unexpectedly finds himself an intimate part of their world. Told through the eyes of a son forced to become a man against a backdrop of unimaginable danger and sacrifice, Deadly Secrets of Iranian Princes is the front page story that hasn't been broken...until now. The revelations in this book, from corporate treason and corrupt government to the surreal demands of being an insider in the shadow of a nuclear arms race are sure to ignite a firestorm of controversy, especially for those whose betrayals will finally become public. More than a news story, at its heart, Deadly Secrets of Iranian Princes is also a haunting testimonial to the complexities of extreme privilege and the unforgettable chronicle of one man's quest to honor his father....