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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as persia)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,393 ratings — published 2005
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as persia)
avg rating 4.53 — 5,733 ratings — published 1010
The Blood of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as persia)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,164 ratings — published 2007
رباعيات خيام (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as persia)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,526 ratings — published 1120
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as persia)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,392 ratings — published 2022
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as persia)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,205 ratings — published 2008
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as persia)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,545 ratings — published 2003
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as persia)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,097 ratings — published -430
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as persia)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,862 ratings — published 1937
The Conference of the Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as persia)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,501 ratings — published 1177
From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as persia)
avg rating 4.37 — 139 ratings — published 1996
The Divan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as persia)
avg rating 4.65 — 7,443 ratings — published 1390
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as persia)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,253 ratings — published -370
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as persia)
avg rating 4.27 — 240,000 ratings — published 2003
Creation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as persia)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,203 ratings — published 1981
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as persia)
avg rating 4.41 — 215,402 ratings — published 2007
Samarkand (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as persia)
avg rating 4.24 — 32,783 ratings — published 1988
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as persia)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,095 ratings — published 2003
The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as persia)
avg rating 4.42 — 63,226 ratings — published 1986
داییجان ناپلئون (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as persia)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,775 ratings — published 1973
The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as persia)
avg rating 4.01 — 373 ratings — published
Iran: A Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as persia)
avg rating 4.23 — 933 ratings — published 2017
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as persia)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,981 ratings — published 800
The Essential Rumi (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as persia)
avg rating 4.39 — 51,584 ratings — published 1273
Shah of Shahs (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as persia)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,943 ratings — published 1982
The Eagle and The Lion: Rome, Persia, and an Unwinnable Conflict (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as persia)
avg rating 3.95 — 915 ratings — published 2023
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as persia)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,862 ratings — published 2015
In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World's First Prophet (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 7 times as persia)
avg rating 3.81 — 729 ratings — published 2002
The Persian Cinderella (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as persia)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,098 ratings — published 1999
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels (Modern Library)
by (shelved 7 times as persia)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,236 ratings — published 1934
Beast (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as persia)
avg rating 3.47 — 7,068 ratings — published 2000
The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as persia)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,675 ratings — published 1972
Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as persia)
avg rating 4.31 — 48 ratings — published 2005
گلستان سعدی (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as persia)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,519 ratings — published 1258
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as persia)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,945 ratings — published 1992
The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as persia)
avg rating 4.10 — 724 ratings — published 1985
Layla and Majnun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as persia)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,553 ratings — published 1192
Spijkerschrift (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as persia)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,736 ratings — published 1999
Every Rising Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as persia)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,514 ratings — published 2023
The Nightingales are Drunk (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as persia)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,565 ratings — published 1390
Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as persia)
avg rating 3.94 — 172 ratings — published 2013
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as persia)
avg rating 3.84 — 27,924 ratings — published 2003
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as persia)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,367 ratings — published 2013
Equal of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as persia)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,635 ratings — published 2012
Wise Lord of the Sky: Persian Myth (Myth and Mankind, 20)
by (shelved 5 times as persia)
avg rating 3.88 — 50 ratings — published 1999
The Road to Oxiana (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as persia)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,481 ratings — published 1937
The Greco-Persian Wars (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as persia)
avg rating 4.08 — 414 ratings — published 1970
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as persia)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,067 ratings — published 2001
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as persia)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,764 ratings — published 2005
The Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as persia)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,296 ratings — published 2022
“the stupid attitude of the EUropeans out here - to antagonise rather than cooperate with the IRanians. Even among quite intelligent people here, this racial antipathy is to be found - and unless it goes, this company will.”
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“Parviz continued, “Do you even know why we refer to it as toman?”
“No, never thought about it, why?” Hooman replied with as much spirit as his mask could muster.
“Well, it’s from the Mongolian word tümen, which means ‘unit of ten thousand.’” He gritted his teeth, agitating Hooman more than hearing about his son getting caught and arrested. Money was his only real love. “That terror, Genghis Khan, still lives with us to this day.”
― Tajrish
“No, never thought about it, why?” Hooman replied with as much spirit as his mask could muster.
“Well, it’s from the Mongolian word tümen, which means ‘unit of ten thousand.’” He gritted his teeth, agitating Hooman more than hearing about his son getting caught and arrested. Money was his only real love. “That terror, Genghis Khan, still lives with us to this day.”
― Tajrish
