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The new Muslims of post-conquest Iran : tradition, memory and conversion / Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Savant, Sarah Bowen, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
- Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam--Iran--History.
- Islam.
- Conversion--Islam--History.
- Conversion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How do converts to a religion come to feel an attachment to it? The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran answers this important question for Iran by focusing on the role of memory and its revision and erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries. During this period, the descendants of the Persian imperial, religious and historiographical traditions not only wrote themselves into starkly different early Arabic and Islamic accounts of the past but also systematically suppressed much knowledge about pre-Islamic history. The result was both a new 'Persian' ethnic identity and the pairing of Islam with other loyalties and affiliations, including family, locale and sect. This pioneering study examines revisions to memory in a wide range of cases, from Iran's imperial and administrative heritage to the Prophet Muhammad's stalwart Persian companion, Salman al-Farisi, and to memory of Iranian scholars, soldiers and rulers in the mid-seventh century.
- Contents:
- Prior connections to islam
- Muḥammad's Persian companion, Salman al-Farisi
- Finding meaning in the past
- Reforming Iranians' memories of pre-Islamic times
- The unhappy prophet
- Asserting the end of the past.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-28954-8
- 1-139-89060-3
- 1-107-28906-8
- 1-107-52985-9
- 1-139-01343-2
- 1-107-29395-2
- 1-107-29116-X
- 1-107-29011-2
- 1-107-29288-3
- OCLC:
- 861537946
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