Any books you would recommend for learning about the Parthian Empire, preferably sources without a pro-Roman or anti-Persian view?
Thank you in advance!
Edit: sorry about the Roma in the title
There are a few books I'll recommend, in the sense of modern secondary/tertiary sources that lean away from the "Western" or "Roman" centric approach to history. However, there needs to be a note about primary sources. There really just aren't many for the Parthian Empire from the Parthian Empire. They existed in a gap between ancient clay and stone records and before medieval Islamic manuscript tradition, and thus many of their written documents went unpreserved. Their Sassanid successors did not do us any favors either. In many cases, Sassanid kings preferred the most politically or religiously expedient or impressive stories over the most historically accurate ones. This lead to significant erasure of the Parthian period in particular as Sassanid kings attributed events of the Parthian period to their own ancestors.
The Parthians also aren't known to have kept any written narrative histories in the modern Greco-Roman sense of the word. So the things lost are likely to have been administrative records, not stories. As a result we're left with coinage, royal inscriptions, engraved statues, artwork, and exceedingly rare fragments of parchment as our primary sources from within the Parthian Empire. To construct a detailed narrative sequence of events the Arsacid dynasty, we are almost entirely reliant on Roman Greek and Latin texts.
Parthian Sources is a very valuable website for Parthian sources, both modern and ancient, but it is geared towards scholars who can read ancient languages and is a work in progress.
With that in mind, here are some suggestions: