Middle Persian

southwestern Iranian language, predecessor to New Persian

abjad-based writing systems used for Middle Iranian languages

stepped structure in the Naqsh-e Rustam compound in Fars, Iran

ancient bilingual inscription in Iraqi Kurdistan

Khwadāy-Nāmag (Iranian Persian: ; ) is the hypothetical title of a lost Middle Persian story from the Sasanian era. It presumably encompassed the national history of Iran from the beginning of time until the Sasanian period. It was a remote predecessor of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh ('Book of Kings'), the 10th-century Iranian national epic, which, it is assumed, drew from a version or versions of the Khwaday-Namag. Scholars have tried to determine the content of the Khwaday-Namag through a comparison of Zoroastrian works, Islamic sources, and Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. Some scholars use the term Khwaday-N

9th-century Middle Persian work

Pazend () or Pazand (; ) is one of the writing systems used for the Middle Persian language. It was based on the Avestan alphabet, a phonetic alphabet originally used to write Avestan, the language of the Avesta, the primary sacred texts of Zoroastrianism.

written works composed in Middle Persian

abjad which was used for writing Middle Persian on paper

The Middle Persian toponym Sūristān, used during the Sasanian period (224–651), had two meanings: Sūristān, another name for Asoristan, the Sasanian province also known as "Dil-i Ērānshahr" Sūristān, today's Kufa in Iraq, according to al-Baladhuri's account of the foundation of Kufa