Download or read book Encyclopædia Iranica written by Ehsan Yar-Shater and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia presents alphabetically arranged scholarly articles "on topics of archeological, geographic, ethnographic, historical, artistic, literary, religious, linguistic, philosophical, scientific, and folkloric interest. ... The time span covered ... extends from prehistory to the present; however, biographies of living persons are excluded." -- Introduction.