id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4610 Encyclopædia Iranica - Wikipedia .html text/html 1857 292 54 Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times. Bulliet calls Encyclopædia Iranica "not just a necessity for Iranists [but] of inestimable value for everyone concerned with the history and culture of the Middle East".[21] Ali Banuazizi, though, notes that its focus is on Iran "as perceived, analyzed, and described by its most distinguished, mainly Western, students".[22] In 1998, the journal Iranian Studies devoted a double issue (vol. As of July 2015, the online version of the Encyclopædia Iranica has almost 7,300 entries, of which about 1,100 entries are only available on the Internet.[24] The following is a list of printed volumes, current as of October 2020[update].[24] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4610.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4610.txt