ReOrienting the Sasanians : : East Iran in Late Antiquity / / Khodadad Rezakhani.

A narrative history of Central Asia after the Greek dynasties and before IslamCentral 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 Road...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia : ESAP
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 30 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Maps
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Sasanians and the Sistanis
  • 2 The Kushans and the Sasanians
  • 3 The Kushano-Sasanians in East Iran
  • 4 The Iranian Huns and the Kidarites
  • 5 The Alkhans in the Southern Hindu Kush
  • 6 The Hephthalite ‘Empire’ and its Successors
  • 7 Sogdiana in the Kidarite and Hephthalite Periods
  • 8 The Nēzak and Turk Periods
  • 9 Tokharistan and Sogdiana in the Late Sasanian Period
  • 10 General Conclusions and Postscript
  • 11 Epilogue and Excursus on the Shahnameh
  • Bibliography
  • Index