List of Sources with English Handwriting
Balāḏorī, Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā, (1988), Fotūḥ al-Boldān, Beirut, Maktabat al-Hilāl.
Belenitskii, Aledsandr Markovich (1364 Š.), Ḵorāsān va Māvarāʼ al-nahr(Āsīyāy-e Mīyāneh), translated by Parvīz Varǰāvand, Tehran: Goftār. [In Persian]
Bīrūnī, Abū Reyḥān Moḥammad b. Aḥmad (1380 Š.), Āṯār al-Bāqīa ‘an al-Qorūn al-Ḵālīa,edited by Parvīz Aẕkāʼīī, Mīrāṯ-e Maktūb.
Bondaheš (1385 Š.), Farnbaḡdādagī, edited by Mehrdād Bahār, Tehran: Tūs. [In Persian]
Foltz, Richard (1385 š), Religions of the Silk Road, translated by A. Pāšāʼīī, Tehran: Farāvān. [In Persian]
Ḥodūd al-Ālam min al-Mašreq el al-Maḡreb (1369 Š.), ed. Manūčehr Sotūdeh, Tehran:Tahūrī.[In Persian]
Ibn Nadīm, Moḥammad b. Esḥaq (1398), Al-Fihrest, Beirut: Dar Al-Ma'rifah.
Qarib, Badr al-Zaman (1376 š), "Soḡdīhā va ǰādey-e Abrīšam", Irān šenaḵt, No. 5, pp. 247-281, Tehrān: anĵoman-e Īrānšenāsān-e jomhūrīy-e Īslāmī-e Īrān va kešvarhāy-e moštarak al-manaf‘ va Qafqāz. [In Persian]
Qarib, Badr al-Zaman (1392 š), "Soḡdīhā:Āsīyāy-e mīyāneh va ǰādey-e Abrīšam", ", dar motale‘āt-e Soḡdī, edited by Muḥammad Šokrī Fūmešī, pp. 17-39, Tehrān: Tahūrī.[In Persian]
Reżā, ʻENāyatollāh (1381 Š.), Īrān va Torkān dar rūzegar-e Sāsānīyān , Tehran: Entešārāt e elmī va farhangī. [In Persian]
Šahrestānhāy-e Īrān, dar Motūn e Pahlavī (1371Š.), published by ǰāmāsb ǰey Manūčehr ǰ. ǰāmāsb Asānā, Tehran: Ketābḵānehy-e Melī-e ǰomhūrīy-e Īslāmī-e Īrān. [In Persian]
Šahristānī, ‘Abd al-Karīm (1364Š.), Al-Milal va al-Niḥal, edited by Aḥmad Fahīm Moḥammad, Qom: Al-Šarīf al-Rażī.
Sotūdehnežad, Šahāb (1383 Š.), Bāztāb e tamaddonhāye Aškānī-Sāsāni bar seh pādšāhī dar šebheh ǰazīreyeh Kore, Tehran: Markaze beyn al-melalī-e Goftegūye tamaddonhā. [In Persian]
Țabarī, Moḥammad b. ǰarīr, (1387), Tārīḵ al-Umam va al-Molūk, Taḥqīq-e Abū al-Fażl Ebrāhīm, Beirut, Dār al-Torāṯ.
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