A lowland region lying along the Helmand River, Sistan is made up of the southwestern Afghanistan province of Nimruz (capital, Zaranj) and the Sistan district of the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchistan (administrative center, Zabol; provincial...

Sistān o Balūchestān (Persian: استان سیستان و بلوچستان) is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. It is in the southeast of the country, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan and its capital is Zahedan, with a population of 420,000...

During the early-third millennium BCE, the Sistan Basin witnessed the emergence of an urban society at Shahr-i-Sokhta. Located close to water sources in a largely inhospitable environment, the population served as an intermediary for trade between the Indus Valley and Mesopotamia. However, after 1500...

This book has its origin in a series of lectures given by Professor Bosworth at Columbia University. He is no stranger to the history of the Saffarids. His article on the armies of the Saffarids appeared in 1968, and in the same year...