Iran in the early Islamic period : : politics, culture, administration and public life between the Arab and the Seljuk conquests, 633-1055 / / by Bertold Spuler ; edited by Robert G. Hoyland ; translated by Gwendolin Goldbloom & Berenike Walburg.

• Superior document: Iran Studies, Volume 12
• VerfasserIn: Spuler, Bertold, 1911-
• TeilnehmendeR: Hoyland, Robert G., 1966-; Goldbloom, Gwendolin,; Walburg, Berenike,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Iran studies ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (649 p.)
• Notes: Editor's preface and acknowledgements -- Selective post-1952 bibliography -- Author's preface and acknowledgements -- General maps -- 1. Chronological overview of political history -- 2. The religious situation -- 3. The ethnic situation -- 4. Intellectual and cultural life -- 5. The administration of Persia -- 6. The legal situation -- 7. The social and economic situation -- Specialised maps -- Bibliography: Primary sources ; Secondary sources -- Indices.

This book presents a translation of Bertold Spuler’s groundbreaking work on the transformation of Iran from a Persian Zoroastrian Empire to a province of the Arab Muslim Empire to a land divided by a number of Persian and Turkish kingdoms.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Chronological Overview of Political History -- 2 The Religious Situation -- 3 The Ethnic Situation -- 4 Intellectual and Cultural Life -- 5 The Administration of Persia -- 6 The Legal Situation -- 7 The Social and Economic Situation -- Specialised Maps -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Indices.