Iranian Military History and Armies Post-Islamic era to 1899

Overview of the Armies of Iran 700-1899

• C. E. Bosworth: Armies of Iran from the Islamic era to the Mongol Period 

Babak Khorramdin-بابک خرمدین- and Maziyar -مازیار-

• Farrokh, K. (2014). An Overview of the Historical Circumstances that led to the Revolts of Babak Khorramdin. Persian Heritage, Volume XIX, No. 74, Summer, pp.21-23.
• –بابک خرمدین دلاور آذربایجان/سعید نفیسی-Professor Said Nafisi (2005). Babak Khorramdin Delavare Azarbayjan [Babak Khorramdin the Lionheart of Azarbaijan. Tehran: Entesharate Asatir.] (Persian textbook in pdf)
• –قیام مازیار و بابک خرمدین/ ناصر نجمی– Professor Nasser Najafi (1989). The Rebellion of Maziyar and Babak Khorramdin: The revolution of the red-bannered ones of Mazandaran. Tehran: Entesharate Adib . (Persian textbook in pdf)
• G.H. Yusofi: The 20 Year Revolt of Babak Khorramdin against the Caliphate (early 9th century CE)
• Drafshe Kaviani website: Babak, Mazyar, Afshin
• Brief History of Iran Website: An overview of Babak Khorramdin
• K.E. Eduljee: Babak Khorramdin
• بابک – رضا انزابی نژاد- رئیس نیا رحیم -Babak-by: Rahim Rais-Nia and Reza Anzali-Nejad  (Persian textbook in pdf)
• Iran Daily Report: Babak Khorramdin Hero of Azarbaiajn (pdf)
• Babak Khorramdin – Freedom Fighter of Persia
• C.E. Bosworth: Afshin

Dailamites-ديلميان –

• The Dailamites of Northern Persia
• –مذهب ديلميان در دوره اسلامي/ پروین ترکمنی آذر/ فرهنگ، زمستان 1384- Parvin Torkamani-Azar (2005). The religion of Dailaman during the Islamic era. Farhang [culture], No. 56, pp. 1-16. (pdf) (in Persian)
• –بررسي موقعيت سياسي ديلمان پيش از اسلام/ آذر آهنجی/ علوم اسلانی الزهرا، پاییز 1385- Azar Ahanchi (2006). An examination of the political circumstance of the Dailamites before Islam. Oloom e Eslami Al-Zahra [Islamic Science Al-Zahra], No. 60-, pp. 1-22. (pdf) (in Persian)
• An overview of the Dailamites – by the Shahrbaraz Blog (in Persian)
• –آرایش نظامی آل بویه در ایران و عراق-ادموند باسورث کلیفورد/ حسین علینقیان-تاریخ اسلام/ سال هفتم/تابستان ۱۳۸۵/ شماره ۲۶-Military organization of the Buyids in Iran and Iraq. Edmond B, Clifford & Hussein Alighian (2007). Tarikhe Islam, 26, pp.70-164

The Khwarazmshahs and the Mongol Conquests

• C. Edmund Bosworth: Jalal e Din Khwarazmshah Mankoberny (reigned 1220-1231)
• A Window into the Past: The Underground City at Tafresh

      Battles against the Mongols and Mongolian occupation

• Farrokh, K. (2017). The armies of the Mongols. Military History, July Issue 82, pp.36-41.
• Farrokh, K., & Khorasani, M.M. (2012). The Mongol Invasion of the Khawarazmian Empire: The Fierce Resistance of Jalal-e Din. Medieval Warfare, Vol. II, Issue 3, pp.43-48.

Hassan Sabbah

• Farhad Daftary: Hassan Sabbah (founder of the Ismaili state in 1050s)

Medieval era prior to and Contemporary to the Safavids

• –شمشير شاه تيموري منقوش به ابيات فارسي در هند پيدا شد – The sword of Aurangzeb discovered with Persian inscriptions in India (in Persian)
• Ancient Roots of Iran’s Wrestling and Weightlifting Olympic Dominance

The Safavids

• M. Haneda: Safavid Armies of Iran

      Safavid Armies in Battles against Ottoman Forces

• مجلات : اقتصاد » اطلاعات سیاسی – اقتصادی » مهر و آبان 1381 – شماره 181 و 182-صفحه از 78-انویسنده: منصوری، فیروز -تاریخ از تهاجم و همسایه آزاری عثمانیان سخن می گوید-Firouz Mansouri (2003). A History of Ottoman invasions and harassment of Iranian territories. Eqhtesad: Etellaat-e Siyasi-Eqhtesadi, No. 181-182, pp.78-91. (pdf) (in Persian)
• Farrokh, K., & Khorasani, M.M. (2012). Die Schlacht von Tschaldiran am 23. August 1514, Pallasch: Zeitschrift für Militärgeschichte, Organ der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Heereskunde. Heft 41, März 2012, pp. 47-71.
• –تاریخ » بررسی های تاریخی » مرداد و شهریور 1353 – شماره 52- صفحه 123 148-عرض سپاه شاه طهماسب و مقایسه آن با عرض سپاه اوزون حسن آق قویونلو -اشراقی، احسان-Ehsan Eshraqi (1975). Comparison of the dimensions of the armies of Tahmasp with Uzun hassan Aq Qoyunlu. Barisihaye Tarikhi, No. 52, pp. 123-148. (pdf) (in Persian)
• Giosofat Barbaro’s Reference to the Identity of Shah Ismail and the Safavids
• Liberation of Tabriz from Ottoman Turks by Shah Abbas I on October 21, 1603
• Farrokh, K. (2015). The Military Campaigns of Shah Abbas I in Azerbaijan and the Caucasus (1603-1618). Studies on Iran and The Caucasus (Studies in Honour of Prof. Garnik S. Asatrian; Edited by U. Bläsing, V. Arakelova & M. Weinreich), pp. 75-95.

          Safavid Military Equipment

• -کلاهخود و ماسک چهارصدساله هدیه ی دربار صفوی به روسیه-Safavid Helmet and Facemask given as a gift from the Safavid court  to the Romanov dynasty of Russia
• Safavid Military items housed in Istanbul’s Topkapi Museum

Nader Shah and the Afsharids

• Map of Afsharid era
• Ernest Tucker: Nader Shah
• J.R. Perry: Armies of Iran during the Afsharid and Zand Periods
• Flags of Nader Shah’s Army Discovered in the Caucasus

Karim Khan Zand and the Zands

• Map of Iran during Zand Era

The Qajars

• Stephanie Cronin: Armies of Qajar Iran
• –مرزهای ایران دویست سال پیش -Borders of Iran 200 years ago (in Persian – note 1814 map of Iran)
• -چکیده تاریخ تجزیه ایران-دکتر هوشنگ طالع– Dr. Houshang Tale: A Brief History of the Partitioning of Iran during the Qajar era (in Persian)
• –دکتر هوشنگ طالع-جداسازی سلیمانیه از ایران- معاهده‌ی دوم ارزروم Dr. Houshang Tale: Separation of Suleumaniya from Iran after the Second Treaty of Erzerum 1821 (in Persian)
• -خسرو بیگی، هوشنگ– -مقدمه ای بر تشکیلات اداری و نظامی ایران در اوایل دوره قاجار -Houshang Khosrow-Begi (2002). An introduction to the bureaucratic and military organization of Iran in the early Qajar era. Nameye Anjoman, No.6, pp. 83-111. (pdf) (in Persian)
• Atropat Website: The Epic of Javad Khan of Ganje
• Babak Rezvani (University of Amsterdam): The Irano-Russian Wars’ Ethno-Demographic Consequences in the South Caucasus. (pdf)
• The Anglo-Iranian War of 1856-1857
• Seb Castle in southeast Iran

        Recommended Books

• Farrokh, K. (2011 & 2018). Iran at War 1500-1988 – See also interview with major Iran-based Newspaper, Etemad: کفتگو با کاوه فرخ در مورد کتاب ایران در جنگ. روزنامه اعتماد صفحه 15 اندیشه یکشنبه 30 دی ماه 97⁩-Interview with Kaveh Farrokh on “Iran at War” book, Etemad Newspaper, Jan.20, 2019.

• Iranian-Russian Encounters Empires and Revolutions since 1800 (ed. S. Cronin) (2012). Routledge: Iranian Studies Series.

Post-Islamic Military Literature

• –کمانداری و تیراندازی در ادبیّات فارسی-بررسی های تاریخی ، خرداد و تیر 1350 – شماره 32–Abo-ol-Ghassem Jenati (1972). Archery and Firearms in Persian Literature. Baresihaye Tarikhi, Number 32, pp. 114-134, 242-300. See these in Part 1 (pdf) and Part 2 (pdf) (in Persian).

Books & Articles by Dr. Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani: Firearms, Martial Arts and Fighting with Traditional Weapons

• Persian Fire and Steel: Historical Firearms of Iran
• Persian Archery and Swordsmanship: Historical Martial Arts of Iran
• Persian armor in the State Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg
• –نگارش دکتر مشتاق خراسانی-شمشیر زنی ایرانی-Dr. Manouchehr M. Khorasani: Persian Fencing in (pdf) and in Iranshahr.
• –گرز گاو سر: آمیزه ای از قدرت و اعتبار-نگارش دکتر منوچهر مشتاق خراسانی-Dr. Manouchehr M. Khorasani: the Bull-headed Mace  in (pdf).
• –رزم افزار: پروژه احیای ورزش های رزمی باستانی ایرانتوسط دکتر منوچهر مشتاق خراسانی -Razmafsar: The Project of Introducing/Presenting the Traditional martial Arts of Iran by Dr. Manouchehr M. Khorasani in Amordad Journal.
• Iranian Sword Builders in Amordad (pdf).
• -ورزش پهلوانی -Shahrbaraz Blog: The Pahlevan Sports (in Persian)
• –ورزش‌های رزمی ایران– Shahrbaraz Blog: The Martial Arts Sports of Iran (in Persian)
• Antique Oriental and Arab Weapons and Armour-The Streshinskiy Collection
• Lexicon of Arms and Armor from Iran