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The new Muslims of post-conquest Iran : tradition, memory, and conversion /

How do converts to a religion come to feel an attachment to it? The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran answers this important question for Iran by focusing on the role of memory and its revision and erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries. During this period, the descendants of the Persian imperia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Savant, Sarah Bowen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prior connections to islam
  • Muḥammad's Persian companion, Salman al-Farisi
  • Finding meaning in the past
  • Reforming Iranians' memories of pre-Islamic times
  • The unhappy prophet
  • Asserting the end of the past.