Iran in the early Islamic period : politics, culture, administration and public life between the Arab and the Seljuk conquests, 633-1055 /

This book presents a translation of Bertold Spuler's groundbreaking work on the transformation of Iran from a Persian Zoroastrian Empire to a province of the Arab Muslim Empire to a land divided by a number of Persian and Turkish kingdoms.

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Main Author: Spuler, Bertold, 1911-

Other Authors: Hoyland, Robert G., 1966-, Goldbloom, Gwendolin., Walburg, Berenike.

Format: eBook

Language: English
German

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2015.

Series: Iran Studies 12.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287464.

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Call Number: DS288 .S613 2015

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Summary:This book presents a translation of Bertold Spuler's groundbreaking work on the transformation of Iran from a Persian Zoroastrian Empire to a province of the Arab Muslim Empire to a land divided by a number of Persian and Turkish kingdoms.
Item Description:Editor's preface and acknowledgements -- Selective post-1952 bibliography -- Author's preface and acknowledgements -- General maps -- 1. Chronological overview of political history -- 2. The religious situation -- 3. The ethnic situation -- 4. Intellectual and cultural life -- 5. The administration of Persia -- 6. The legal situation -- 7. The social and economic situation -- Specialised maps -- Bibliography: Primary sources ; Secondary sources -- Indices.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxviii, 617 pages) : maps.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [526]-579)and indexes.
ISBN:9789004282094
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