| Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics | renewed the Seljuk attempt to found a great Turko-Persian empire in eastern Iran |
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| Coming as they did through a Transoxania which was still substantially Iranian and into Persia proper, the Seljuqs with no high-level Turkish cultural or literary heritage of their own — took over that of Persia, so that the Persian language became the administration and culture in their land of Persia and Anatolia | , by — The Oriental Institute and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations The University of Chicago |
| Maria Subtelny, "Timurids in Transition", BRILL; illustrated edition 30 September 2007 | Excerpt from page 34: "Like China, Iran is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations"• Helmer, First Steps of Animal Domestication, Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002,• Grousset, Rene, The Empire of the Steppes, Rutgers University Press, 1991 , 161,164; " |
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| Shaul Shaked, From Zoroastrian Iran to Islam, 1995; and Henry Corbin, En Islam Iranien: Aspects spirituels et philosophiques 4 vols | Lambton, and Bernard Lewis Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970 |
The Persian culture of the Rum Seljuqs was particularly splendid, and it was only gradually that Turkish emerged there as a parallel language in the field of government and adab; the Persian imprint in Ottoman civilization was to remain strong until the 19th century.
| Military Balance 2006, Routledge for the IISS, London, 2006, p | On the contrary, it was they who voluntarily became Persians and who, in the manner of the great old Sassanid kings, strove to protect the Iranian populations from the plundering of Ghuzz bands and save Iranian culture from the Turkoman menace |
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| pg 40: "Nevertheless, in the complex process of transition, members of the Timurid dynasty and their Turko-Mongolian supporters became acculturate by the surrounding Persinate millieu adopting Persian cultural models and tastes and acting as patrons of Persian culture, painting, architecture and music | Charbonneau, Louis 26 October 2009 |
Shaul Shaked, From Zoroastrian Iran to Islam, 1995; and Henry Corbin, En Islam Iranien: Aspects spirituels et philosophiques 4 vols.
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