The Comprehensive History of Iran (Persian: تاریخ جامع ایران) is a twenty-volume book series about various aspects of Iran's political, social and cultural history from pre-Islamic times to the extinction of the Qajar dynasty.
The first five volumes of this series narrate the period of ancient Iran and the other 15 volumes narrate the history of Iran in the Islamic period, political, social, cultural, scientific, literary and artistic history.
[6][7][8][9] The book The Comprehensive History of Iran has been prepared for fourteen years by more than 170 researchers, under the supervision of Kazem Mousavi-Bojnourdi and under the auspices of the Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation.
[10][11][12] Ten volumes of this book were unveiled in 2014 and its complete collection released on June 16, 2015 in the presence of a group of thinkers and local officials, including Ali Jannati, then Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran, and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Chairman of Expediency Discernment Council, at the Encyclopaedia Islamica Center.
History of Iran from Islamic Conquest to appearance of Semi-Independent and Independent Governments; Topics such as the conquest of Iran and the last days of the Sassanid government; Iran in the era of Arab ethnic rule, Iranians and the rise of the Abbasid state; Iranian Ministry and Bureaucracy and part of the Eastern and Western governments of the Islamic era.
The Qajar era, religious developments, Iran's foreign relations with the Ottoman Empire and powerful European states, the context of the uprising Constitutional monarchy revolution, the role of social classes in political and social developments, the arrival of a new civilization in Iran and many other issues are also discussed.
In this volume, Persian literature in the cultural realm of Iran is discussed according to literary periods.
Some sections are not written by historians and are a kind of political interpretation based on specific texts.