The history and culture of Iran and Central Asia : from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period / edited by D.G. Tor, Minoru Inaba.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tor, D. G. (Deborah Gerber), editor.

Inaba, Minoru, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iran--History--To 640.

Iran.

Iran--History--640-1500.

Asia, Central--History--To 1500.

Asia, Central.

Physical Description:

xiii, 349 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2022]

Contents:

The Enduring Significance of the Iranian World in the First Millennium CE : Transformation and Continuity / D.G. Tor. Part 1. Iranian Central Asia in Late Antiquity. Types of town planning in ancient Iranian cities: new considerations / Frantz Grenet

The proto-Sogdian inscriptions of Kultobe: New fragments and new reconstructions / Nicholas Sims-Williams

Xian Temples of the Sogdian Colonies in China / Etsuko Kageyama

Three scenarios for the historical background of the Xi'an Sino-Pahlavi inscription : Post-Sasanian Zoroastrian traders? / Yutaka Yoshida. Part 2. From the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic. The Arab Conquest and the Collapse of the Sogdian Civilization / Michael Shenkar

Wukong's itinerary towards India: Central Asia in the mid-eighth century / Minoru Inaba

Evolution of the habitat in Paykend / Rocco Rante

Notes on Islamisation Narratives in the Faḍāʼil-i Balkh / Arezou Azad. Part 3. Transformation of the Pre-Islamic past. The New Garden of the Amīr: Samanid Land-Development at the Borders of the Bukhara Oasis / Sören Stark

Al-Thaʻālibī's Iranian Past : Assimilation and Aesthetics / Louise Marlow

Representations of the Pre-Islamic Past in Early Persian Court Poetry / Gabrielle van den Berg

From Turkistan to Tibet: The Qarakhanids and the Tsongkha Tribal Confederation / Dilnoza Duturaeva.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780268202095

0268202095

OCLC:

1262799375