Mabānī-ye Tārīkh-e Pārtī (Fundamentals of Parthian History)

About This Volume

This book is a Persian translation of a seminal work, Grundzüge der Parthischen Geschichte, written by Professor Klaus Schippmann (1924-2010), the former professor of the Institute of Iranian Studies in Göttingen.  Schippmann attempts to aptly depict the basics of Parthian history, despite the limitation and lack of historical sources for this period.

Grundzüge der Parthischen Geschichte is part of the series “Grundzüge“ published by the German publishing house Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.  It is one of the very few books that covers the second Persian empire, that of the Parthian Arsacids, whose reign lasted half a millennium from the end of the Seleucids to the third Persian empire of the Sasanians, from ca. 247 BCE to 224 CE.