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Late antiquity : Eastern perspectives / edited by Teresa Bernheimer and Adam Silverstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gibb Memorial Trust Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sassanids.
- Iran--History--To 640.
- Iran.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (451 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication unknown] : E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the past four decades since the field of late antique studies began to gather real momentum, scholars have debated the place of early Islam within the late antique world, particularly in relation to the issue of where and when 'Late Antiquity' ends. Although the Sasanian empire became an equal rival to the Byzantine empire, and the two often forged their characters and practices on the basis of their relations with each other, that has rarely translated into equal coverage for the eastern part of the late antique world in studies of the period. Late Antiquity: Eastern Perspectives aims to r
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction (Adam Silverstein and Teresa Bernheimer); 2. A New Look at Mazdak (François de Blois); 3. Buddhism as Ancient Iranian Paganism (Patricia Crone); 4. Eastern Sources on The Roman and Persian War in the Near East 540-545 (Michael R. Jackson Bonner); 5. Collaborators and Dissidents: Christians in Sasanian Iraq in the Early Fifth Century CE (Philip Wood); 6. The Khurasan Corpus of Arabic Documents (Geoffrey Khan); 7. The Late Sasanian Army (James Howard-Johnston)
- 8. Urban Militias in the Eastern Islamic World (Third-Fourth Centuries AH/Ninth-Tenth centuries CE) (Luke Treadwell)9. The Long Shadow of Pre-Islamic Iranian Rulership: Antagonism or Assimilation? (D. G. Tor); Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 28, 2014).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (Ebook Central, viewed March 12, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9780906094723
- 0906094720
- 9780906094822
- 0906094828
- OCLC:
- 1481794067
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