| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization |
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Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title ; Series information ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Journal and Reference Works Abbreviations ; 1 Introduction ; Peripheries and Empires ; Reading Local Histories as Social History ; Sources |
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Conceptual Frameworks Structure and Chapter Summaries ; 2 Methodologies for Reading Hybrid Identities and Imagined Histories ; Defining ''Local History'' ; Defining ''Iran'' and ''Persia'' ; Distinguishing Narrative Local Histories from Biographical Dictionaries |
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Hybrid Identities and Gestures to ''Center'' the ''Peripheries'' Theoretical Considerations ; Remembering and Forgetting, Writing, and Rewriting ; Center-Periphery Relations ; Imagined Histories and their Uses ; The Real Contexts of Imagined Histories ; 3 Contexts and Authorship |
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Historical Background Development of Perso-Islamic Historiography ; Contexts and Authorship ; Political and Military Turning Points in the Caspian Region ; Tārīkh-i Ṭabaristān and its Author, Ibn Isfandiyār; Political and Military Developments in Khurasan, Including Bukhara and Bayhaq |
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Tārīkh-i Bukhārā: Arabic Original by Narshakhī and Persian Translation by QubavīThe Region of Bayhaq ; The Question of 'Alids and Shi'a in Bayhaq; Tārīkh-i Bayhaq and its Author, Ibn Funduq; Political and Military Turning Points in Qum ; Tārīkh-i Qum: A Composite Text; Sistan in Context ; Tārīkh-Sīstān and its Anonymous Author; Local History and its Audience |
| Summary |
An innovative exploration of the local histories of the Persianate world and its preoccupation with identity, authority, and legitimacy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 12, 2016) |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Historiography.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Iran.
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Historiography
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| SUBJECT |
Iran -- History -- 640-1256 -- Historiography
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Iran -- History -- 1256-1500 -- Historiography
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Turkey -- History -- To 1453 -- Historiography
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Turkey -- History -- To 1453.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138800
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| Subject |
Iran
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Turkey
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316788127 |
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1316788121 |
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131678780X |
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9781316787809 |
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9781316411506 |
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1316411508 |
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9781316787168 |
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1316787168 |
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