Greater Khorasan : history, geography, archaeology and material culture / edited by Rocco Rante.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rante, Rocco, editor.

Series:

Studies in the history and culture of the Middle East ; v. 29.

Studies in the history and culture of the Middle East ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Khurāsān (Iran)--History.

Khurāsān (Iran).

Middle Ages.

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The modern sense of "Greater Khorasan" today corresponds to a territory which not only comprises the region in the east of Iran but also, beyond Iranian frontiers, a part of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. In the past this entity was simply defined as Khorasan. In the Sassanid era Khorasan defined the "Eastern lands". In the Islamic era this term was again taken up in the same sense it previously enjoyed. The Arab sources of the first centuries all mention the eastern regions under the same toponym, Khorasan. Khorasan was the gateway used by Alexander the Great to go into Bactria and India and, inversely, that through which the Seljuks and Mongols entered Iran. In a diachronic context Khorasan was a transit zone, a passage, a crossroads, which, above all in the medieval period, saw the creation of different commercial routes leading to the north, towards India, to the west and into China. In this framework, archaeological researches will be the guiding principle which will help us to take stock of a material culture which, as its history, is very diversified. They also offer valuable elements on commercial links between the principal towns of Khorasan. This book will provide the opportunity to better know the most recent elements of the principal constitutive sites of this geographical and political entity.

Contents:

Pre-Mongol Khurasan. a historical introduction / David Durand-Durand-Guedy

Khorasan proper and greater Khorasan within a politico-cultural framework / Rocco Rante

La crise d'aridite climatique de la fin du 3eme millenaire av. J.a℗EC., a la lumiere des contextes geomorphologiques de 3 sites d'Iran Oriental (Bam, Tepe Damghani, Jiroft) / Eric Fouache, Henri-Paul Francfort, Claude Cosandey, Chahryar Adle

From Parthian to Islamic Nisa / Carlo Lippolis and Vito Messina

Merv on Khorasanian trade routes from the 10th-13th centuries / Paul Wordsworth

Ancient Herat Revisited. New Data from Recent Archaeological Fieldwork / Ute Franke

Trois mosquees du debut de l'ere islamique au Grand Khorassan : Bastam Noh-gonbadan/Haji-Piyadah de Balkh et Zuzan d'apres des investigations archeologiques / Chahryar Adle

Le paysage urbain de Nishapur / Haeedeh Laleh, Abolfazl Mokarramifar, Zahra Lorzadeh

Nouvelles recherches sur la ceramique de Nishapur : la prospection du Shahrestan / Annabelle Collinet

Archaeological Material in the Museum Setting: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Excavations at Nishapur / Marika Sardar

Nishapur Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 70 years of Restoration Techniques / Vicki Parry

Le Grand Khorasan: Datation par des methodes physico-chimiques (carbone 14 et luminescence) / Antoine Zink, Elisa Porto, Pascale Richardin, Nathalie Gandolfo, Rocco Rante

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110331707

3110331705

9783110390018

3110390019

OCLC:

909907809