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The rise of Islam / edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Sarah Stewart.

Contributor(s): Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh | Stewart, Sarah (Sarah Rosemary Anne) | London Middle East Institute | British MuseumMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Idea of Iran ; v. 4.Publication details: London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris in association with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS and the British Museum ; Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 2009. Description: 114 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781845116910; 1845116917Subject(s): Geschichte | 640-1256 | Geschichte | Islam -- Iran -- History | Islam -- Iran -- Histoire | 15.75 history of Asia | Civilization | Islam | Islam | Islam -- Iran -- History | Iran -- historia -- efter 640 | Islam -- historia | Iran -- History -- 640-1256 | Iran -- Civilization | Iran -- Religious life and customs | Iran -- Histoire -- 651-1256 | Iran -- Civilisation | Iran | Iran | Iran | Iran -- History -- 640-1256 | Iran -- Civilization | Iran -- Religious life and customsGenre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung. | HistoryDDC classification: 955.02 LOC classification: DS288.3 | .R57 2009Other classification: EV 970
Contents:
Re-emergence of Iranian identity after conversion to Islam / Ehsan Yarshater -- Survival of Iranianness / Hugh Kennedy -- The persistent older heritage in the Medieval Iranian lands / C. Edmund Bosworth -- Economy and society in early Islamic Iran: a moment in world history / Richard W. Bulliet -- Oranges, quiddities and algorisms / Lutz Richter-Bernburg -- The cross and the lotus: the Armenian miscellany Patmut 'iwn pnje k'aak'i ('history of the city of Brass') on the periphery of the Iranian Oikoumene / James R. Russell -- What happened to the Sasanian Hunt in Islamic art? / Robert Hillenbrand.
Summary: "The latest volume in the successful series The Idea of Iran addresses the impact made by Islam during and after the Arab conquest of Iran in the middle of the seventh century. How and why, once Iran had embraced the new religion, did it manage to retain its Persian language and distinctive Iranian identity once Muslim governance took hold? This conundrum, alongside other important questions, is addressed by the book, which includes seven distinguished contributions from leading scholars. Discussing a large variety of subjects which covers the whole spectrum of life in early Islamic Iran, the volume offers one of the most ambitious perspectives on Persian religion, society and culture to be published to date. It will be consulted by all students of Iranian history, and will be regarded as essential reading for scholars of Islam, the Middle East and medieval religion alike."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-114).

Re-emergence of Iranian identity after conversion to Islam / Ehsan Yarshater -- Survival of Iranianness / Hugh Kennedy -- The persistent older heritage in the Medieval Iranian lands / C. Edmund Bosworth -- Economy and society in early Islamic Iran: a moment in world history / Richard W. Bulliet -- Oranges, quiddities and algorisms / Lutz Richter-Bernburg -- The cross and the lotus: the Armenian miscellany Patmut 'iwn pnje k'aak'i ('history of the city of Brass') on the periphery of the Iranian Oikoumene / James R. Russell -- What happened to the Sasanian Hunt in Islamic art? / Robert Hillenbrand.

"The latest volume in the successful series The Idea of Iran addresses the impact made by Islam during and after the Arab conquest of Iran in the middle of the seventh century. How and why, once Iran had embraced the new religion, did it manage to retain its Persian language and distinctive Iranian identity once Muslim governance took hold? This conundrum, alongside other important questions, is addressed by the book, which includes seven distinguished contributions from leading scholars. Discussing a large variety of subjects which covers the whole spectrum of life in early Islamic Iran, the volume offers one of the most ambitious perspectives on Persian religion, society and culture to be published to date. It will be consulted by all students of Iranian history, and will be regarded as essential reading for scholars of Islam, the Middle East and medieval religion alike."--Jacket.

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