Asia Society

Glass, Gilding, and Grand Design: Art of Sasanian Iran (224–642)

Glass, Gilding, and Grand Design: Art of Sasanian Iran (224-642) presents masterpieces illustrating the splendor of the court arts of the Sasanian dynasty, which ruled the ancient Near East from the ...
Princeton University

Ērānšahr in Transition-West and Central Asia Between the Sasanians and Islam, 600-750 CE

This conference brings together the leading scholars of the fields of late antique, Sasanian, and early Islamic history in order to study the period of transition – defined broadly as 600-750 CE – in ...
insider.si.edu

Iranian art from the Sasanians to the Islamic Republic : essays in honour of Linda Komaroff / edited by Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom and Sandra S. Williams

Introduction. Celebrating the career, writings and exhibitions of Linda Komaroff -- chapter 1. A Mongol historian looks at art: Abuʹl-Qasim Qashani's description of Sultaniyya / Sheila S. Blair and ...
insider.si.edu

Sasanian Persia : the rise and fall of an empire / Touraj Daryaee

"In this book, Touraj Daryaee provides an account of Sasanian Persia. Drawing on extensive new sources he paints a portrait of Sasanian life and unravels the divergent strands that contributed to the ...