The Great Minds of Persia

By Yavar Dehghani

From Zarathustra to Rumi - the minds that shaped a civilisation.
For more than two and a half thousand years, the Persian-speaking world produced a remarkable concentration of literary, philosophical, and scientific genius. The poets whose verses are still recited at weddings and funerals. The physicians whose medical encyclopaedias were studied in European universities for five centuries. The mystics who mapped the inner life of the soul with precision that still astonishes readers today. The mathematicians who gave algebra its name - and the world its tools.
The Great Minds of Persia brings together twenty of the most significant figures in this tradition - from Zarathustra, the ancient prophet whose ideas about good and evil shaped Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, to Hafez, whose ghazals are among the most beautiful poems ever written in any language. Along the way, you will meet Avicenna the physician-philosopher, Omar Khayyam the mathematician-poet, Rumi the mystic of universal love, Sa'di the moralist and traveller, and Obeyd-e Zakani the satirist who mocked the powerful with devastating wit.
Each figure is introduced through their life and historical context, their major works and central ideas, the controversies they generated, and their enduring legacy - with original Persian verses in transliteration and English translation. No knowledge of Persian is required. Only curiosity.
This is not a book about a distant civilisation. It is a book about ideas that are still alive - about truth and beauty, about the relationship between reason and love, about what it means to be human in a world that is both magnificent and unjust.
The tradition is two and a half millennia old. The conversation it started has never stopped.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H86S162P
• ISBN13: 9798186474135
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"