The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism

Crone, Patricia

ISBN 10: 110701879X / ISBN 13: 9781107018792

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, etc, 2012

2012. xviii, 566pp. B&W maps. "This learned and engaging book by one of the most influential scholars of early Islamic history casts entirely new light on the nature of religion in pre-Islamic Iran, and on the persistence of Iranian religious beliefs both outside and inside Islam after the Arab conquest." Both book and unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition. All contents are tight and clean. There are no inscriptions. N° de réf. du vendeur Islam072

Synopsis :

Patricia Crone's book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there and the religious communities that these revolts revealed. The book also describes a complex of religious ideas that, however varied in space and unstable over time, has demonstrated a remarkable persistence in Iran across a period of two millennia. The central thesis is that this complex of ideas has been endemic to the mountain population of Iran and occasionally become epidemic with major consequences for the country, most strikingly in the revolts examined here and in the rise of the Safavids who imposed Shi'ism on Iran. This learned and engaging book by one of the most influential scholars of early Islamic history casts entirely new light on the nature of religion in pre-Islamic Iran and on the persistence of Iranian religious beliefs both outside and inside Islam after the Arab conquest.

À propos de l?auteur: Patricia Crone is Mellon Professor of Islamic History, School of Historical Studies, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. Her numerous publications include Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity (1980, 2003), God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam, coauthored with Martin Hinds (1986, 2003), Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World (1989, 2003) and God's Rule: Government and Islam: Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought (2005).

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Titre : The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran:...
Éditeur : Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, etc
Date d'édition : 2012
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Near Fine
Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine
Edition : First Edition