Richard N. Frye, interview by Asieh Namdar, CNN, 20 October 2007. "I spent all my life working in Iran. and as you know I don't mean Iran of today, I mean Greater Iran, the Iran which in the past, extended all the way from China to borders of Hungary and from other Mongolia to Mesopotamia". [۱]بایگانیشده در ۲۳ آوریل ۲۰۱۶ توسط Wayback Machine[۲]بایگانیشده در ۲ ژوئن ۲۰۱۱ توسط Wayback Machine
C.E. Bosworth, "The Appearance of the Arabs in Central Asia under the Umayyads and the establishment of Islam", in History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. IV: The Age of Achievement: AD 750 to the End of the Fifteenth Century, Part One: The Historical, Social and Economic Setting, edited by M. S. Asimov and C. E. Bosworth. Multiple History Series. Paris: Motilal Banarsidass Publ. /UNESCO Publishing, 1999. excerpt from page 23: [۳]
http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kurdish-language-i according to which Kurdish, following a select number of isoglosses, was relatively close to Persian In effect, this questioned the “traditional” view holding that Kurdish, because of its differences from Persian, should be regarded a “NW-Iranian” language (
Richard Nelson Frye, The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Oct. , 1962), pp. 261-268 http://www.jstor.org/pss/1508723 I use the term Iran in an historical context[...]Persia would be used for the modern state, more or less equivalent to "western Iran". I use the term "Greater Iran" to mean what I suspect most Classicists and ancient historians really mean by their use of Persia - that which was whitin the political boundries of State ruled by Iranians.
The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. III: The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian Periods, Ehsan Yarshater, Review author[s]: Richard N. Frye, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3. (Aug. , 1989), pp.415. Link: <415:TCHOIV>2.0.CO;2-I
Richard N. Frye, interview by Asieh Namdar, CNN, 20 October 2007. "I spent all my life working in Iran. and as you know I don't mean Iran of today, I mean Greater Iran, the Iran which in the past, extended all the way from China to borders of Hungary and from other Mongolia to Mesopotamia". [۱]بایگانیشده در ۲۳ آوریل ۲۰۱۶ توسط Wayback Machine[۲]بایگانیشده در ۲ ژوئن ۲۰۱۱ توسط Wayback Machine
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Richard N. Frye, interview by Asieh Namdar, CNN, 20 October 2007. "I spent all my life working in Iran. and as you know I don't mean Iran of today, I mean Greater Iran, the Iran which in the past, extended all the way from China to borders of Hungary and from other Mongolia to Mesopotamia". [۱]بایگانیشده در ۲۳ آوریل ۲۰۱۶ توسط Wayback Machine[۲]بایگانیشده در ۲ ژوئن ۲۰۱۱ توسط Wayback Machine