Iran in the Early Islamic Period
Politics, Culture, Administration and Public Life between the Arab and the Seljuk Conquests, 633-1055
Published on 7. November 2014
Book
Hardback
650 pages
978-90-04-27751-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents a translation of Bertold Spuler's groundbreaking work on the transformation of Iran from a Persian Zoroastrian Empire to a province of the Arab Muslim Empire to a land divided by a number of Persian and Turkish kingdoms.
Reviews / Votes
"Spuler's 1952 German work remains a crucial study of Iran in the Early Islamic Period. [...] ...excellent translation of a difficult German text [...] ...a treasure trove of data now available to a wider audience. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate student, faculty, specialists." - T. M. May, in: CHOICE vol. 52 no. 10 (June 2015) [DOI: 10.5860/CHOICE.190201. Copyright 2015 American Library Association]More details
Series
Language
English
Other
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
3 s/w Abbildungen
6 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1134 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-27751-9 (9789004277519)
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Persons
Robert G. Hoyland is professor of Middle East history at NYUs Institute for Study of the Ancient World and Oxford's Oriental Institute. He has published a number of books and articles on the Middle East in the late antique and early Islamic periods, including Seeing Islam as Others saw it (Princeton, 1997) and Arabia and the Arabs (London, 2001).