The rise of Islam / edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Sarah Stewart - 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 - 114 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - The idea of Iran ; v. 4 . - The idea of Iran ; v. 4 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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 plnj¯e k'alak'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

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Islam--History--Iran


Iran--History--640-1256
Iran--Civilization
Iran--Religious life and customs