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The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia
2022
Overview
This volume examines the major cultural, religious,
political, and urban changes that took place in the Iranian world
of Inner and Central Asia in the transition from the pre-Islamic to
the Islamic periods.
One of the major civilizations of the first millennium was that
of the Iranian linguistic and cultural world, which stretched from
today's Iraq to what is now the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of
China. No other region of the world underwent such radical
transformation, which fundamentally altered the course of world
history, as this area did during the centuries of transition from
the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period. This transformation included
the religious victory of Islam over Buddhism, Nestorian
Christianity, and the other religions of the area; the military and
political wresting of Inner Asia from the Chinese to the Islamic
sphere of primary cultural influence; and the shifting of Central
Asia from a culturally and demographically Iranian civilization to
a Turkic one. This book contains essays by many of the preeminent
scholars working in the fields of archeology, history, linguistics,
and literature of both the pre-Islamic and the Islamic-era Iranian
world, shedding light on some of the most significant aspects of
the major changes that this important portion of the Asian
continent underwent during this tumultuous era in its history. This
collection of cutting-edge research will be read by scholars of
Middle Eastern, Central Asian, Iranian, and Islamic studies and
archaeology.
Contributors: D. G. Tor, Frantz Grenet, Nicholas Sims-Williams,
Etsuko Kageyama, Yutaka Yoshida, Michael Shenkar, Minoru Inaba,
Rocco Rante, Arezou Azad, Sören Stark, Louise Marlow, Gabrielle van
den Berg, and Dilnoza Duturaeva.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Subject
ISBN
0268202095, 9780268202095, 9780268202088, 0268202087, 9780268202118, 0268202117
