Ancient civilizations-2

The Sāsānian period

The History of al-Ṭabarī (1985– ) provides a translation of and a commentary on the essential work by al-Ṭabarī (c. 859–923). Georgina Herrmann, The Iranian Revival (1977), examines Parthian and Sāsānian antiquities and history. Arthur Christensen, L’Iran sous les Sassanides, 2nd ed., rev. (1944, reissued 1971), is a comprehensive one-volume history of this period. Adrian David Hugh Bivar Mark J. Dresden