
Early Islamic Iran
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Exploring the nature of this paradox, separate chapters engage with ideas of kingship, authority and identity and their fascinating expression through the written word, architecture and the visual arts.
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The Arts in and of Iran in Late Antiquity (the late Oleg Grabar, Princeton University)
2. The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: The Survival of Ancient Iranian Ethical Concepts in Persian Popular Narratives of the Islamic Period (Ulrich Marzolph, University of Goettingen)
3. The Samanids: the First Islamic Dynasty of Central Asia (Luke Treadwell, University of Oxford)
4. Sandbad-name: A Zurvanite Cosmogonic Legend? (Mohsen Zakeri, University of Frankfurt)
PART II: THE LAST OF THE PERSIAN DYNASTIES
5. The Expression of Power in the Art and Architecture of Early Islamic Iran (Jonathan Bloom, Boston College)
6. Advice Literature in Tenth and Early Eleventh-Century Iran and Early Persian Prose Writing (Louise Marlowe , Wellesley College)
7. The Lofty Castle of Qabus b. Vushmgir (Melanie Michalidis, University of California, Davis)
8. The Idea of Iran in Buyid Dominions (Roy Parvis Mottahedeh, Harvard University)
9. Early Persian Historians and the Heritage of Pre-Islamic Iran (Andrew Peacock, British Institute at Ankara)
10. Authority and Identity in the Pahlavi Books (Alan Williams, University of Manchester)
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