Early Islamic Iran Contributor(s): Herzig, Edmund (Editor), Stewart, Sarah (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1780760612 ISBN-13: 9781780760612 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $89.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - India & South Asia - History | Middle East - General |
Dewey: 955.02 |
Series: Idea of Iran |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.4" W x 9.2" (1.10 lbs) 192 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Cultural Region - Middle East |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stewart, Sarah: - Sarah Stewart writes award-winning children's books with her husband, illustrator David Small. Their books include The Money Tree, The Friend, The Journey, The Library, and The Gardener, a Caldecott Honor book and winner of the Christopher Award. Stewart grew up in Texas and studied Latin and philosophy in college. She has been a teacher, speechwriter, and ombudsman, among other, less notable, jobs. She has reviewed children's books for The New York Times, has edited copy for The Texas Observer, and occasionally has a poem published in an obscure journal. Stewart and her husband, illustrator and author David Small, live in a historic home on a bend of the St. Joseph River in Michigan. |