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Pre-islamic Persia would definitely be in my top ten time travel destinations...

[combat_boots]

True. Abbasids. “1001 Nights.” Sheherazad. Numerous others. Beautiful architecture. Rife with Byzantine intrigue. The Hashisheen. Library at Merv that Genghis Khan destroyed.

Pre-WWI book, “Ali & Nino” is back in print. Marvelous but sappy. Good description of the period including Georgia.

Farsi is Indo-European, so it has the verb ‘is’ and some related words to English. Written in Arabic letters though.

Oh yes. Hellenic culture. Alexander went through there & back, but got stuck at the Indian elephants. Alexander married a Persian whom his Greek wife killed. Actually, she was Afghan. Killed her in Persia though.

[nuconvert]

I’m told that the best printed Shahnameh are from Moscow, and the best movies made based on Shahnameh are Russian also.

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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi, tr by Dick Davis, foreword by Azar Nafisi additional titles Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Paperback

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