Iran
Subtitle: a short history
By: Monika Gronke ; translated from German by Steven Rendall.
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781558764446
Subjects: Iran -- History -- 640-
Work titles: Geschichte Irans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-147) and index.
Table of contents: title: The early Islamic period (642-1055); title: The Arab conquest; title: The Islamization of Iran; title: Shi'ism; title: The doctrine of twelver Shi'ism; title: The Abbasid Caliphate; title: The Samanids; title: The Buyids; title: The continuing existence of Iranian traditions; title: The beginnings of new Persian literature; title: Iran under the Turks and Mongols (1055-1501); title: The eleventh century; title: From the Saljuqs to the Khwarazm-Shahs; title: The Saljuq state; title: Sunnism and Shi'ism under the Saljuqs; title: The Mongol invasion and its consequences; title: The Il-Khans; title: Concepts of rulership and empire; title: Islam under Mongol rule; title: Timur and his successors; title: Iran in the early modern period (1501/1779); title: Turkish immigration from the West; title: The Safavids; title: The safavid state; title: Shi'ism under the Safavids; title: Iran in the eighteenth century; title: The history of Iran from Islamization to the present; title: From the Qajars to the Islamic republic (1779 to the present); title: The Qajars; title: The Qajar state; title: Shi'ism in the nineteenth century; title: From the constitutional revolution to the Pahlavis; title: The Pahlavis; title: Political Shi'ism and the Islamic revolution; title: The Islamic republic; title: Women in modern Iran; title: Future prospects.