This volume is a collection of papers on the various aspects of Sasanian world which were delivered at the University of Oxford in 2014. Eminent scholars in such fields as numismatics, history, art history, Pahlavi and Zoroastrian Studies provide important observations on the Sasanian Empire and its influence and contact with the neighboring civilizations, as well as the internal developments throughout the four centuries in which the Sasanians held power on the Iranian Plateau and beyond.
This volume was previously published by the Jordan Center for Persian Studies, University of California – Irvine.
Touraj Daryaee, Ph.D. (1999), UCLA, is Professor of Iranian History and the Persianate World at UC Irvine. He has published monographs and many articles on ancient and late antique Iranian world, including Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity: The Bahari Lecture Series at the University of Oxford (2018).
All those interested in ancient, pre- and early Islamic Iran, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Caucasus, and northern India.