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Author Crone, Patricia, 1945-2015.

Title The nativist prophets of early Islamic Iran / Patricia Crone
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 566 pages) : maps
Contents 1. Introduction -- I. The Revolts: A, Western Iran: 2. The Jibāl: Sunbādh, the Muslimiyya; 3. Azerbaijan: Bābak; B. Eastern Iran: 4. Khurāsān: Muhammira, Khidāshiyya, Rāwandiyya, Hārithiyya; 5. Sogdia and Turkestan: Ishāq; 6. Sogdia: al-Muqannaʻ and the Mubayyida; 7. South-eastern Iran: Bihāfarīdh, ustādhsīs, and Yūsuf al-Barm; 8. The nature of the revolts; 9. The aftermath -- II. The Religion: A. Reconstituting the Beliefs: 10. God, cosmology, and eschatology; 11. Divine indwelling; 12. Reincarnation; 13. Ethos, organisation, overall character; B. Khurramī Beliefs and Zoroastrianism: 14. Khurramī beliefs in pre-Islamic sources; 15. Regional and official Zoroastrianism: doctrines; 16. Regional and official Zoroastrianism on the ground -- III. Women and Property: 17. 'Wife-sharing'; 18. The Mazdakite utopia and after -- IV. Conclusion: 19. Iranian religion versus Islam and inside it -- Appendix 1. Sharon and the Khidāshiyya -- Appendix 2. Widengren on Bābak's Mithraic wedding ceremony
Summary "Patricia Crone's latest 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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-542) and index
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Subject Islam -- Iran -- History
Religion -- History.
religious history.
Islam
Religion
Iran
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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