The rise of Islam
By: edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Sarah Stewart.
Contributors: Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh.; Stewart, Sarah; London Middle East Institute.; British Museum.
Series: The idea of Iran -- v. 4
Publisher: 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; I.B. Tauris
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9781845116910
Subjects: Islam -- Iran -- History; Iran -- History -- 640-1256; Iran -- Civilization; Iran -- Religious life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [105]-114).
Table of contents: title: Re-emergence of Iranian identity after conversion to Islam / Ehsan Yarshater; title: Survival of Iranianness / Hugh Kennedy; title: The persistent older heritage in the Medieval Iranian lands / C. Edmund Bosworth; title: Economy and society in early Islamic Iran: a moment in world history / Richard W. Bulliet; title: Oranges, quiddities and algorisms / Lutz Richter-Bernburg; title: The cross and the lotus: the Armenian miscellany Patmut 'iwn płnjē k'ałak'i ('history of the city of Brass') on the periphery of the Iranian Oikoumene / James R. Russell; title: What happened to the Sasanian Hunt in Islamic art? / Robert Hillenbrand.