World History is a collection of important primary sources on the history of the ancient and medieval world. What makes this book important is that it is written by a historian who has been teaching ancient world history for the past 12 years in colleges and universities in the United States. The sources are selected to provide a complete overview of the social, political, economic, and religious history of ancient and medieval civilizations. The author has translated some of the primary sources and provides important comments and questions to bring a clearer understanding for the...

In 2016 the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. This unique cultural institution not only educated the youth in Iran, from villages to large cities, but it also has brought new ways of thinking and vision for the young Iranians. Also of significance is that many of those who worked at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, became important Iranian writers, poets, painters, musicians and filmmakers.

For a long time, Sasanian studies were mainly cultivated by linguists and historians of religion, and the only standard work on the history of the Sasanian Empire was Arthur Christensen's L'Iran sous les Sassanides (Copenhagen 1936; second revised and expanded edition 1944). Only in recent years, Christensen's authority was challenged: Several new syntheses eventually allowed Late antique scholars to better understand the history and the structure of the great rival of the Roman Empire. However, we still lacked a handy, student-friendly introduction to Sasanians studies. Now, Daryaee and...