I hope that you have come to this site in a quest for information regarding Medieval Persia. This site is a source of information on Persian history, culture and clothing. This page mostly centers on resources for studying Sasanian history, culture and clothing. However many of thse links include informaiton on earlier and later periods.

Articles Authored by Jahanarabanu:

Jahanara's Arts & Sciences Journal- see what projects I've completed in the last two years, as well as, all my most current projects.

Sasanian Clothing- this document is an Adobe PDF file, which requires Adobe Reader to open.

Silk Road Clothing- this doucment is a PDF version of a Power Point Presentation that I use when teaching a class which discusses the various clothing styles along the Western portion of the Silk Road during the Medieval Period.

Sasanian Women's Clothing

Bar Chart- this is a bar chart showing the total number of various articles I have observed in 13 pictures of extant Sasanian silver works and stone carving, and 13 pictures in the Royal Hunter

Pie Chart- this chart uses the same data as above, but this chart shows the percentage of observations for each article.

Other Resources

The following is a list of outside resources that you may find helpful in your quest for knowledge.

Sasanika- An internet project devoted to Sasanian history and culture.

Roxane Farabi- This is an excellent resource for researching 16th Century clothing, as well as, Turkish clothing, Persian culture and more.

Encyclopedia Iranica

Center for Ancient Iranian Studies- This site is a great resource for Ancient Iranian (Persian) history.

Journal of Near Eastern Studies- A great resources for articles and book reviews.

Sasanian Empire- A good site for information on specific Persian Kings.

Classical Coins

Sasanian Seals and History

Comunidad Ashavan- A great site for infomration on Zoroastrianism.

Easy Persian- learn to read and speak Persian online!