Stan Shiels (2004)۔ Stan Shiels on centrifugal pumps: collected articles from "World Pumps" magazine۔ Elsevier۔ صفحہ: 11–12, 18۔ ISBN1-85617-445-X Shiels: "During the Sassanid period the term Eranshahr was employed to denote the region also known as Greater Iran..." Also: "...the Abbasids, who with Persian assistance assumed the Prophet's mantle and transferred their capital to Baghdad three years later; thus, on a site close to historic Ctesiphon and even older Babylon, the caliphate was established within the bounds of Greater Persia."
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Christian Lange۔ Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination۔ Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization۔ Cambridge University Press۔ ISBN978-0-521-88782-3۔ 16 اگست 2021 میں اصل سے آرکائیو شدہ۔ اخذ شدہ بتاریخ 29 فروری 2016الوسيط |url-status= تم تجاهله (معاونت) Lange: "I further restrict the scope of this study by focusing on the lands of Iraq and greater Persia (including Khwārazm, Transoxania, and Afghanistan)."
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"Columbia College Today"۔ columbia.edu۔ 25 دسمبر 2018 میں اصل سے آرکائیو شدہ۔ اخذ شدہ بتاریخ 09 دسمبر 2015الوسيط |url-status= تم تجاهله (معاونت)
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 within the political boundaries of States ruled by Iranians.
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Joseph Arthur Gobineau، Daniel O'Donoghue۔ Gobineau and Persia: A Love Story۔ ISBN1-56859-262-0۔ 25 دسمبر 2018 میں اصل سے آرکائیو شدہ۔ اخذ شدہ بتاریخ 29 فروری 2016الوسيط |url-status= تم تجاهله (معاونت) O'Donoghue: "...all set in the greater Persia/Iran which includes Afghanistan".
Christian Lange۔ Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination۔ Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization۔ Cambridge University Press۔ ISBN978-0-521-88782-3۔ 16 اگست 2021 میں اصل سے آرکائیو شدہ۔ اخذ شدہ بتاریخ 29 فروری 2016الوسيط |url-status= تم تجاهله (معاونت) Lange: "I further restrict the scope of this study by focusing on the lands of Iraq and greater Persia (including Khwārazm, Transoxania, and Afghanistan)."
Joseph Arthur Gobineau، Daniel O'Donoghue۔ Gobineau and Persia: A Love Story۔ ISBN1-56859-262-0۔ 25 دسمبر 2018 میں اصل سے آرکائیو شدہ۔ اخذ شدہ بتاریخ 29 فروری 2016الوسيط |url-status= تم تجاهله (معاونت) O'Donoghue: "...all set in the greater Persia/Iran which includes Afghanistan".
"Columbia College Today"۔ columbia.edu۔ 25 دسمبر 2018 میں اصل سے آرکائیو شدہ۔ اخذ شدہ بتاریخ 09 دسمبر 2015الوسيط |url-status= تم تجاهله (معاونت)