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Contents
- IntroductionTouraj Daryaee
- The Iranian Plateau from Paleolithic Times to the Rise of the Achaemenid EmpireKamyar Abdi
- The ElamitesDan Potts
- Avestan SocietyProds Oktor Skjærvø
- The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330
bce )A. Shapur Shahbazi - Iran at the Time of Alexander the Great and the SeleucidsEvangelos Venetis
- The Arsacid EmpireEdward Dąbrowa
- The Sasanian Empire(224–651
ce )Touraj Daryaee - Iran in the Early Islamic PeriodMichael G. Morony
- Medieval IranNeguin Yavari
- The Mongols in IranGeorge E. Lane
- Timurids and Turcomans: Transition and Flowering in the Fifteenth CenturyAli Anooshahr
- The Safavids in Iranian History (1501–1722)Kathryn Babayan
- The Afghan Interlude and the Zand and Afshar Dynasties (1722–95)Kamran Scot Aghaie
- Qajar Iran (1795–1921)Mansoureh Ettehadieh Nezam-Mafi
- The Pahlavi Era Iranian Modernity in Global ContextAfshin Matin-Asgari
- Iran after Revolution (1979–2009)Maziar Behrooz