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Biografisk notat
Edmund Herzig is Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies and a Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford. He is the author of The Armenians: A Handbook and Iran and the World in the Safavid Age (I.B.Tauris). Sarah Stewart is Lecturer in Zoroastrianism in the Department of the Study of Religions and Deputy Director of the London Middle East Institute at SOAS, University of London. She is co-editor, with Vesta Curtis, of Birth of the Persian Empire, Age of the Parthians, The Sasanian Era and The Rise of Islam, all published by I.B.Tauris.How did Iran remain distinctively Iranian in the centuries which followed the Arab Conquest? How did it retain its cultural distinctiveness after the displacement of Zoroastrianism - state religion of the Persian empire - by Islam? This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series traces that critical moment in Iranian history which followed the transformation of ancient traditions during the country's conversion and initial Islamic period. Distinguished contributors (who include the late Oleg Grabar, Roy Mottahedeh, Alan Williams and Said Amir Arjomand) discuss, from a variety of literary, artistic, religious and cultural perspectives, the years around the end of the first millennium CE, when the political strength of the 'Abbasid Caliphate was on the wane, and when the eastern lands of the Islamic empire began to be take on a fresh 'Persianate' or 'Perso-Islamic' character. One of the paradoxes of this era is that the establishment throughout the eastern Islamic territories of new Turkish dynasties coincided with the genesis and spread, into Central and South Asia, of vibrant new Persian language and literatures.
Exploring the nature of this paradox, separate chapters engage with ideas of kingship, authority and identity and their fascinating expression through the written word, architecture and the visual arts.
PART I: TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS IN EARLY ISLAMIC PERSIA
The Arts in and of Iran in Late Antiquity (the late Oleg Grabar, Princeton University)
2. The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: The Survival of Ancient Iranian Ethical Concepts in Persian Popular Narratives of the Islamic Period (Ulrich Marzolph, University of Göttingen)
3. The Samanids: the First Islamic Dynasty of Central Asia (Luke Treadwell, University of Oxford)
4. Sandbad-name: A Zurvanite Cosmogonic Legend? (Mohsen Zakeri, University of Frankfurt)
PART II: THE LAST OF THE PERSIAN DYNASTIES
5. The Expression of Power in the Art and Architecture of Early Islamic Iran (Jonathan Bloom, Boston College)
6. Advice Literature in Tenth and Early Eleventh-Century Iran and Early Persian Prose Writing (Louise Marlowe , Wellesley College)
7. The Lofty Castle of Qabus b. Vushmgir (Melanie Michalidis, University of California, Davis)
8. The Idea of Iran in Buyid Dominions (Roy Parvis Mottahedeh, Harvard University)
9. Early Persian Historians and the Heritage of Pre-Islamic Iran (Andrew Peacock, British Institute at Ankara)
10. Authority and Identity in the Pahlavi Books (Alan Williams, University of Manchester)
Produced in association with the Soudavar Memorial Foundation.
Charting over 1,000 years of history, the Idea of Iran series offers a significant new appraisal of one of the most fascinating of the great civilizations of the world. Comprising substantial volumes by leading experts in the field of Iranian Studies, the series explores the empires and cross-cultural traditions that have shaped the culture of Iran and the Persianate World.
http://soudavar.org/idea-of-iran/