[PDF] The Nativist Prophets Of Early Islamic Iran eBook

Author : Patricia Crone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1139510762

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Patricia Crone's book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there and the religious communities that these revolts revealed. The book also describes a complex of religious ideas that, however varied in space and unstable over time, has demonstrated a remarkable persistence in Iran across a period of two millennia. The central thesis is that this complex of ideas has been endemic to the mountain population of Iran and occasionally become epidemic with major consequences for the country, most strikingly in the revolts examined here and in the rise of the Safavids who imposed Shi'ism on Iran. This learned and engaging book by one of the most influential scholars of early Islamic history casts entirely new light on the nature of religion in pre-Islamic Iran and on the persistence of Iranian religious beliefs both outside and inside Islam after the Arab conquest.

Author : Patricia Crone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 110701879X

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Patricia Crone's latest book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there, and the religious communities that these revolts revealed. The book also describes a complex of religious ideas that, however varied in space and unstable over time, has demonstrated a remarkable persistence in Iran across a period of two millennia. The central thesis is that this complex of ideas has been endemic to the mountain population of Iran and occasionally become epidemic with major consequences for the country, most strikingly in the revolts examined here, and in the rise of the Safavids who imposed Shi'ism on Iran. This learned and engaging book by one of the most influential scholars of early Islamic history casts entirely new light on the nature of religion in pre-Islamic Iran, and on the persistence of Iranian religious beliefs both outside and inside Islam after the Arab conquest.

Author : Patricia Crone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521541114

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This study examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that, as in Shi'ism, it was concentrated in the head of state, rather than dispersed among learned laymen as in Sunnism. Originally the caliph was both head of state and ultimate source of religious law; the Sunni pattern represents the outcome of a conflict between the caliph and early scholars who, as spokesmen of the community, assumed religious leadership for themselves. Many Islamicists have assumed the Shi'ite concept of the imamate to be a deviant development. In contrast, this book argues that it is an archaism preserving the concept of religious authority with which all Muslims began.

Author : Patricia Crone
Publisher : Gorgias Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781463241728

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Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted dogmas in contemporary accounts of the beginnings of Islam: the supposition that Mecca was a trading center. In addition, she seeks to elucidate sources on which we should reconstruct our picture of the birth of the new religion in Arabia.

Author : Patricia Crone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521529495

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This book tests the hypothesis that Roman law was a formative influence on Islamic law.

Author : Hanna Siurua
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004319264

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Patricia Crone's "Collected Studies in Three Volumes" brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised articles. The present volume examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam, above all that of the Iranians.

Author : Edmund Herzig
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 178673446X

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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. Exploring the nature of this paradox, separate chapters engage with ideas of kingship, authority and identity and their fascinating expression through the written word, architecture and the visual arts.

Author : Roy Mottahedeh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1780747381

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A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Author : Beatrice Forbes Manz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1139462849

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Beatrice Forbes Manz uses the history of Iran under the Timurid ruler Shahrukh (1409–1447) to analyse the relationship between government and society in the medieval Middle East. She provides a rich portrait of Iranian society over an exceptionally broad spectrum - the dynasty and its servitors, city elite and provincial rulers, and the religious classes, both ulama' and Sufi. The work addresses two issues central to pre-modern Middle Eastern history: how a government without the monopoly of force controlled a heterogeneous society, and how a society with diffuse power structures remained stable over long periods. Written for an audience of students as well as scholars, this book provides a broad analysis of political dynamics in late medieval Iran and challenges much received wisdom about civil and military power, the relationship of government to society, and the interaction of religious figures with the ruling class.