Showing posts with label Persian history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Persian history. Show all posts
Monday, March 31, 2025

A review of “Iran: The Forgotten Glory”

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“All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish ...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

A review of Michael Wood’s “In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great”

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“Whilst the Amphictyonic confederacy remained, that of the Achaeans, which comprehended the less important cities only, made little figure o...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

A review of “Avicenna and Medieval Muslim Philosophy” (audiobook)

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During the Middle Ages , the  Muslim world  helped to keep  Greek philosophy  alive. In the wake of the Roman Empire’s fall in the fifth cen...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

A review of “Islam” (audiobook)

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“ Allah—there is no god ˹worthy of worship˺ except Him . He has the Most Beautiful Names.” – English translation of The Quran, Surah 20:8 Is...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

A review of “Islam: Empire of Faith” (PBS Empires)

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“ ˹He is˺ Allah! There is no god ˹worthy of worship˺ except Him , the Lord of the Mighty Throne.” – English translation of  The Quran, Surah...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

In defense of Ronald Reagan: Helping the mujahideen in the Soviet-Afghan War

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During the Reagan administration, we were allied with both Iraq and Afghanistan … In the  Ronald Reagan  era, America had two allies th...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

Forgotten battlegrounds of the Cold War: North Africa and the Middle East

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If there's ever been a peaceful period in Muslim history, the Cold War was not that period … If there's ever been a peaceful per...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Aramaic: The OTHER Bible language

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"Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter....
Monday, June 20, 2016

Reflections on learning about history of the Ancient Near East

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"The term 'Near East' is not widely used today. It has survived in a scholarship rooted in the nineteenth century when it was...