TY - BOOK AU - Curtis,Vesta Sarkhosh AU - Stewart,Sarah ED - London Middle East Institute ED - British Museum TI - The rise of Islam T2 - The idea of Iran SN - 9781845116910 (hbk.) PY - 2009/// CY - London, New York, New York PB - 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 KW - Islam KW - Iran KW - History KW - 640-1256 KW - Civilization KW - Religious life and customs N1 - 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 ER -