Early Islamic Iran / edited by Edmund Herzig and Sarah Stewart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herzig, Edmund, 1958- editor.

Stewart, Sarah (Sarah Rosemary Anne), editor.

Series:

Idea of Iran ; Volume 5.

Idea of Iran ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Iran--History.

Islam.

Zoroastrianism.

Iran--History.

Iran.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2011.

Summary:

"How did Iran remain distinctively Iranian in the centuries which followed the Arab Conquest? How did it retain its cultural distinctiveness after the displacement of Zoroastrianism - state religion of the Persian empire - by Islam? This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series traces that critical moment in Iranian history which followed the transformation of ancient traditions during the country's conversion and initial Islamic period. Distinguished contributors (who include the late Oleg Grabar, Roy Mottahedeh, Alan Williams and Said Amir Arjomand) discuss, from a variety of literary, artistic, religious and cultural perspectives, the years around the end of the first millennium CE, when the political strength of the 'Abbasid Caliphate was on the wane, and when the eastern lands of the Islamic empire began to be take on a fresh 'Persianate' or 'Perso-Islamic' character. One of the paradoxes of this era is that the establishment throughout the eastern Islamic territories of new Turkish dynasties coincided with the genesis and spread, into Central and South Asia, of vibrant new Persian language and literatures. Exploring the nature of this paradox, separate chapters engage with ideas of kingship, authority and identity and their fascinating expression through the written word, architecture and the visual arts."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Foreword

The Samanids: The first Islamic Dynasty of Central Asia

The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: The survival of Ancient Iranian Ethical Concepts in Persian Popular Narratives of the Islamic Period

Arts of Iran in Late Antiquity

Sindbādnāma: A Zurvanite Cosmogonic Legend?

Early Persian Historians and the Heritage of Pre-Islamic Iran

Advice Literature in Tenth and Early Eleventh-Century Iran and Early Persian Prose Writing

The Expression of Power in the Art and Architecture of Early Islamic Iran

The Lofty Castle of Qābus b. Voshmgir

Authority and Identity in the Pahlavi Books

The Idea of Iran in the Buyid Dominions

List of Abbreviations

Bibliography

eCopyright.

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780755695102

0755695100

9780755693498

0755693493

9781786734464

178673446X

9781786724465

1786724464

OCLC:

1110486121