@ No usage of the name “Razmafzar” is allowed without Dr. Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani’s permission.Title of the book: Elite Sassanian CavalryPublisher: Osprey (2005)Number of pages: 64 pagesTranslated into PersianBooksFarrokh has collected data and primary sources on Sassanian cavalry for 18 years resulting in travels to locations such as Naghsh-e-Rustam (Iran). The book was most recently reviewed by Shahnaz Hojati of the University of Tehran in the peer-reviewed journal “below:Farrokh’s first book, which is the first to specifically discuss the Sassanian dynasty’s elite cavalry (Savaran). This text has outlined the specific Pahlavi terms of the Sassanian cavalry’s elite units (e.g. Gyanavaspar Peshmerga; Zhayedan, etc.), military tactics, insignia and pitched battles. The role of Iranian women in the Sassanian military system has also been emphasized. Dr. David Khoupenia of the University of Tbilisi has noted the following in his review:“Dr. Kaveh Farrokh has written the first book to be ever written exclusively about the Savaran (elite knights) of Sassanian Persia. Despite very little “press coverage”, these Persian knights inflicted upon Rome, some of her most desperate defeats. The Savaran blocked the Romans from gaining control of the Silk Route and denied their expansion towards China and India. They also fully avenged the conquests of Alexander the Great, almost a millennia before them. Many westerners falsely believe that Alexander’s conquest of Persia was final. In reality, Persia recovered, not only to expel the Greeks from Persia under the Parthians, but to challenge Rome itself under the Sassanians. Farrokh is correct when he notes that Persia was “the other superpower… This book has bought an almost forgotten great people back to life. Every year we seen dozens of new books about Rome and Greece in western book stands, and very few book of the caliber of Dr. Farrokh’s book about Persia. It is my hope that more books like these will be printed; after all Sassanian Persia and her Savaran knights are an important part of world civilization…”Dr. David Khoupenia (The University of Georgia in Tbilisi)Translations into Persian in 2009 and 2011Farrokh’s text has been tranlsted into Persian in two versions: the first is by Yusef Amiri in 2009 (in canada) and the other by Behnam Mohammad-Shah in 2011 (in Iran). The two versions have been translated independently of each other.The complete and authorized Persian translation of Sassanian Elite Cavalry by Yusef Amiri was published in 2009. This is the only translation that has the permission of the author and the original publisher (Osprey). Book cover of the Asvaran e Sassani, Yusef Amiri’s translation of Farrokh’s original text on the Elite Sassanian cavalry.Yusef Amiri has significantly enriched and expanded the original English text by providing footnotes and additional information for Iranian readers using references such as Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Iranica, “Golden Age of Persia” by Richard Nelson Frye, and “Iran under Sassanians” by Arthur Christensen among others.There is also another translation of the Farrokh text by Behnam Mohammad-Shah which was published in early January 2011 in Tehran, Iran by Sapzan Publishers:
@ No usage of the name “Razmafzar” is allowed without Dr. Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani’s permission.
Title of the book: Elite Sassanian Cavalry
Publisher: Osprey (2005)
Number of pages: 64 pages
Translated into Persian
Books
Farrokh has collected data and primary sources on Sassanian cavalry for 18 years resulting in travels to
locations such as Naghsh-e-Rustam (Iran). The book was most recently reviewed by Shahnaz Hojati of the
University of Tehran in the peer-reviewed journal “below:
Farrokh’s first book, which is the first to specifically discuss the Sassanian dynasty’s elite cavalry
(Savaran). This text has outlined the specific Pahlavi terms of the Sassanian cavalry’s elite units (e.g.
Gyanavaspar Peshmerga; Zhayedan, etc.), military tactics, insignia and pitched battles. The role of Iranian
women in the Sassanian military system has also been emphasized.
Dr. David Khoupenia of the University of Tbilisi has noted the following in his review:
“Dr. Kaveh Farrokh has written the first book to be ever written exclusively about the Savaran (elite knights)
of Sassanian Persia. Despite very little “press coverage”, these Persian knights inflicted upon Rome, some
of her most desperate defeats. The Savaran blocked the Romans from gaining control of the Silk Route
and denied their expansion towards China and India. They also fully avenged the conquests of Alexander
the Great, almost a millennia before them. Many westerners falsely believe that Alexander’s conquest of
Persia was final. In reality, Persia recovered, not only to expel the Greeks from Persia under the Parthians,
but to challenge Rome itself under the Sassanians. Farrokh is correct when he notes that Persia was “the
other superpower… This book has bought an almost forgotten great people back to life. Every year we
seen dozens of new books about Rome and Greece in western book stands, and very few book of the
caliber of Dr. Farrokh’s book about Persia. It is my hope that more books like these will be printed; after all
Sassanian Persia and her Savaran knights are an important part of world civilization…”
Dr. David Khoupenia (The University of Georgia in Tbilisi)
Translations into Persian in 2009 and 2011
Farrokh’s text has been tranlsted into Persian in two versions: the first is by Yusef Amiri in 2009 (in canada)
and the other by Behnam Mohammad-Shah in 2011 (in Iran). The two versions have been translated
independently of each other.
The complete and authorized Persian translation of Sassanian Elite Cavalry by Yusef Amiri was published
in 2009. This is the only translation that has the permission of the author and the original publisher
(Osprey).
Book cover of the Asvaran e Sassani, Yusef Amiri’s translation of Farrokh’s original text on the
Elite Sassanian cavalry.
Yusef Amiri has significantly enriched and expanded the original English text by providing footnotes and
additional information for Iranian readers using references such as Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Iranica,
“Golden Age of Persia” by Richard Nelson Frye, and “Iran under Sassanians” by Arthur Christensen among
others.
There is also another translation of the Farrokh text by Behnam Mohammad-Shah which was published in
early January 2011 in Tehran, Iran by Sapzan Publishers:
