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Islamic Conquest
Pahlavi writing
Pahlavi writing
Iranians have maintained some of their pre-Islamic traditions and adapted them with Islamic codes. Finally these two customs and traditions merged and an "Islamic Iranin" identity as a new identity has emerged
Two centuries of silence
Iran was indeed Islamized, but it was not Arabized. Persians remained Persians. And after an interval of silence, Iran reemerged as a separate, different and distinctive element within Islam
The caliphs adopted many Sassanid administrative practices, such as:
- coinage system
-the office of vizier, or minister,
- the divan, a bureaucracy for collecting taxes and giving state stipends.
The Sassanid architecture had a distinctive influence over Islamic architecture
Golden Age of Islam
Science
780 – 850 AD
AlgorithmAlgebra 865 - 925 AD
discovery of alcohol
980 - 1037 AD
The Book of HealingThe Canon of Medicine
al-Khwarizmi
Avicenna
Al-Razi
Philosophy … poetry, …
Omar Khayyam
1048 – 1131 AD
Neo-Platonist, musician
Al-Farabi
870 – 950 AD
MathematicianAstronomer-Poet
And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press,End in the Nothing all Things end in — Yes —Then fancy while Thou art, Thou art but whatThou shalt be — Nothing — Thou shalt not be less.
(Fitzgerald's translation)
Persian literature of the medieval and pre-modern periods
800-900 AD
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
1000 AD
Shahname (The Book of Kings)
LiteratureLove Poetry … Sufism
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
1207 – 1273 AD
1310 - 1337 AD
Hafez
Manteq al-Tayr (Conference of the Birds)
1142 – 1220 AD
Attar
romantic epic poet
1141–1209 AD
Nezami
Mongol conquest
A large number of people, particularly males, were killed; between 1220 and 1258, the population of Iran dropped drastically.
The Ilkhan dynasty, lasting from 1251 to 1335
The harsh rule of the Mongols caused an economic decline throughout the 13th century.
Safavid Empire (1502-1736)
The birth of Modern Iran
Founding the modern nation-state of Iran.
Even though Safavids were not the first Shia rulers in Iran, they played a crucial role in making Shia Islam the official religion in the whole of Iran.
The cultural growth was accompanied by considerable development in all forms of art.
In the Safavid era the Persian Architecture flourished again and saw many new monuments, such as Naghsh-i Jahan Square, the biggest historic square in the world.
Constitutional Revolution
Members of the first Majlis (Parliament)
Islamic Revolution