Sussan Babaie (Persian: سوسن بابایی, born 1954) is an Iranian-born art historian and curator. She is best known for her work on Persian art and Islamic art of the early modern period. She has written extensively on the art and architecture of the...
Sussan is an alternative spelling of the English given name Susan and its Persian equivalent Sousan. It also occurs as a surname.
During the 2026 Iran war, various cultural heritage sites across West Asia were damaged or destroyed.
Sam Mirza (Persian: سام میرزا; 1611 – 12 May 1642), known by his regnal name of Shah Safi (Persian: شاه صفی), was the sixth shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1629 to 1642. Abbas the Great was succeeded by his grandson, Safi. A reclusive and passive...
The Shahnameh, also romanized Shahnama (lit. 'Book of Kings'), is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 distichs or couplets (two-line...
Chehel Sotoun (Persian: چهلستون, lit. 'Forty Columns') is a 17th century pavilion and garden, in Isfahan, Iran. It was commissioned by Abbas the Great and completed by Shah Abbas II, both Safavid Shahs, mostly for royal entertainment and...
The Allahverdi Khan Bridge (Persian: پل اللهوردی خان), popularly known as Si-o-se-pol (Persian: سیوسهپل, lit. '[the] bridge of thirty-three [spans]'), is the largest of the eleven historical bridges on the Zayanderud, the largest river of the...
The Black Sea slave trade trafficked people across the Black Sea from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus to slavery in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The Black Sea slave trade was a center of the slave trade between Europe and the rest of the...
Sultan Mohammad (Persian: سلطان محمد) was an Iranian painter at the Safavid court in Tabriz under Shah Ismail I (r. 1501–1524) and Shah Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576). He served as the director of Shah Ismail's artists’ workshop and as the first project...
Anna Khanum (Persian: آنا خانم; died 9 September 1647) was the consort of the Safavid Shah Safi (r. 1629–1642). She was the mother of her husband's successor, Shah Abbas II (r.