ReOrienting the Sasanians : East Iran in Late Antiquity /

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A narrative history of Central Asia after the Greek dynasties and before Islam. Central Asia is commonly imagined as the marginal land on the periphery of Chinese and Middle Eastern civilisations. At best, it is understood as a series of disconnected areas that served as stop-overs along the Silk Ro...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rezakhani, Khodadad (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
Series:Edinburgh studies in ancient Persia.
Subjects:
Sassaniden
To 640
Sassanids > History.
Sassanides > Histoire.
HISTORY > Civilization.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Sassanids
Iran > History > To 640.
Iran > Histoire > Jusqu'à 651.
Iran
Iran > Ost
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Sasanians and the Sistanis
  • The Kushans and the Sasanians
  • The Kushano-Sasanians in east Iran
  • The Iranian Huns and the Kidarites
  • The Alkhans in the southern Hindu Kush
  • The Hephthalite "Empire" and its successors
  • Sogdiana in the Kidarite and Hephthalite periods
  • The Nēzak and Turk periods
  • Tokharistan and Sogdiana in the late Sasanian period
  • General conclusions and postscript
  • Epilogue and excursus on the Shahnameh.

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