Discover how Persian culture fed, taught, and gathered people for more than two thousand years. Persian Paradise is a calm, beautifully made guide to the ideas, arts, and everyday traditions that grew in Iran and traveled far beyond it.
The collection runs from Cyrus the Great to 1979. Each entry tells you what was achieved and, just as important, how it helped ordinary people live, learn, and come together.
PERSIAN CONTRIBUTIONS BY CATEGORY
Browse 43 entries across 27 categories, including:
- Literature and poetry, from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh to the lyric tradition
- Music, dance, theater, and storytelling, such as the radif, Taziyeh, and Naqqali
- Calligraphy, painting, photography, and early Iranian cinema
- Architecture, Persian gardens, and the qanat water channels
- Carpets, termeh, and other traditional crafts
- Science, medicine, and mathematics, including algebra, the Jalali calendar, and the Maragheh observatory
- Food, festivals, and play, from Persian rice cookery and Nowruz to chogan and shatranj
Every entry carries a simple tag, Unique, Developed here, or Imported form, so you can see what began in Iran, what was adapted and raised there, and where a global form found local use. Honesty matters here: not every item is a sole invention, and the app says so.
IRAN'S ETHNIC COMMUNITIES
Meet 12 communities of Iran: Baluch, Kurd, Lur, Gilak, Mazandarani, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Qashqai, Arabs of Khuzestan, Armenian, Assyrian, and Jewish. Each has its own page about daily life, food, crafts, and music, most with an illustrated banner, plus the catalog entries linked to that community, such as Baluchi needlework, Turkmen weaving, Horeh singing, and Ashik storytelling.
TIMELINE
See the whole story in order. The Timeline arranges every entry by its starting year, oldest first, so you can follow how one idea led to the next.
TREASURE HUNT FOR KIDS
A playful way for children to learn. Read a clue, pick the right treasure chest, and discover a real item from the catalog. Each hunt has five treasures, every clue comes from the real text, and found treasures are kept in a personal collection to explore again.
SAVED AND SEARCH
Search titles, categories, eras, community names, and descriptions to find what you are looking for. Save the entries you love with one tap and return to them anytime. Your saved list and your display choice stay on your device.
SEVEN LANGUAGES
Read Persian Paradise in English, Persian (Farsi), Simplified Chinese, Spanish, French, Hindi, or Swahili. Persian uses a full right-to-left layout with Persian digits and the Solar Hijri calendar. Switch languages anytime from the Home screen and the whole app follows.
FILMS
Watch films about Persian culture right inside the app. Films are protected from screen recording to respect the work of their creators. The rest of the app can be captured as usual.
ON IPHONE, IPAD, MAC, AND APPLE TV
Enjoy Persian Paradise wherever you are: on iPhone; on iPad with a two-column Home screen and a film view that adapts to the window size; on Mac; and on Apple TV, where roomy layouts, readable text, and Siri Remote navigation make it easy for the whole family to explore together on the big screen.
DESIGNED WITH CARE
- A Home screen inspired by Persian tilework, in lapis, ivory, and gold
- Light and dark display options
- Layouts that stay clear on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV
- Supports larger text sizes and VoiceOver
For families sharing their heritage, students curious about the world, and the Persian diaspora keeping their roots close, Persian Paradise is an invitation to explore, learn, and feel at home in a culture that gave so much.
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