Patricia Crone

The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran

Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This learned and engaging study casts new light on the nature of religion in pre-Islamic Iran.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 586
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 990g
• ISBN-13: 9781107018792
• ISBN-10: 110701879X
• Artikelnr.: 34751809

Autorenporträt

Patricia Crone is Mellon Professor of Islamic History, School of Historical Studies, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. Her numerous publications include Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity (1980, 2003), God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam, coauthored with Martin Hinds (1986, 2003), Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World (1989, 2003) and God's Rule: Government and Islam: Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. The Revolts: 2. The Jibal: Sunbadh, the Muslimiyya
3. Azerbaijan: Babak
4. Khurasan: Muhammira, Khidashiyya, Rawandiyya, Harithiyya
5. Sogdia and Turkestan: Ishaq
6. Sogdia: al-Muqanna and the Mubayyida
7. South-eastern Iran: Bihafaridh, Ustadh Sis, and Yusuf al-Barm
8. The nature of the revolts
9. The aftermath
Part II. The Religion: 10. God, cosmology, and eschatology
11. Divine indwelling
12. Reincarnation
13. Ethos, organisation, overall character
14. Khurrami beliefs in pre-Islamic sources
15. Regional and official Zoroastrianism: doctrines
16. Regional and official Zoroastrianism on the ground
Part III. Women and Property: 17. 'Wife-sharing'
18. The Mazdakite utopia and after
Part IV. Conclusion: 19. Iranian religion versus Islam and inside it
Appendices.