Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World
Subtitle: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781784532390
Subjects: Islam, history; Sunnites; Islamic civilization; Asia, civilization
Description: "The High Middle Ages were remarkable for their coherent sense of 'Christendom': of people who belonged to a homogeneous Christian society marked by uniform rituals of birth and death and worship. That uniformity, which came under increasing strain as national European characteristics became more pronounced, achieved perhaps its most perfect intellectual expression in the thought of the western Christian thinkers who are sometimes called 'scholastic theologians'. This book offers the first focused introduction to these thinkers based on the individuals themselves and their central preoccupations."--Bloomsbury Publishing.