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‘Persians’ Review: Mighty and Misunderstood April 15, 2022
On Dec. 28, 1934, Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia—good luck parodying that—wrote to George Rendel, the Head of the Eastern Department of Britain’s Foreign Office, describing “an abs...
What if Persia Had Defeated the Greeks May 29, 2020
Of all the many counterfactuals, those “what-ifs” posed by history, perhaps the most arresting, if only because the most sweeping, asks: what if the Persians had defeated the Greeks in the Greco-Persian War of 490–479 B.C.? Had this happened, there m...
A Medieval Arabic Medical Text Was Translated Into Irish March 27, 2019
In the 11th century, the Persian physician Ibn S?n? wrote a five-volume medical encyclopedia called the Canon of Medicine, which, among other things, covered the basic principles of medicine as they stood at the time and listed around 800 drugs that ...
