Two Centuries of Silence
Two Centuries of Silence (Persian: دو قرن سکوت, romanized: Do Qarn Sokut, pronounced [d̪o ɢæɾn soˈkʰuːt̪ʰ]) is a book written in Persian by Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub, a prominent Iranian scholar of Iran's culture, history and literature. The work is a historical account of the events and circumstances of the first two centuries of the Iranian history following the Arab conquest of Iran in the 7th century AD until the rise of the Tahirid dynasty, a Muslim dynasty of native Iranian origin.