Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World

Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation

A.C.S. Peacock, D.G. Tor

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781784532390
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857729460
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Islamic Theology

A.C.S. Peacock is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews, and holds a PhD in Oriental Studies from Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is the author of Early Seljuq History: A New Interpretation (2010), and is the co-editor of The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East (I.B.Tauris, 2012) and Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia (I.B.Tauris, 2013).D.G. Tor is Assistant Professor of Medieval Middle Eastern History at the University of Notre Dame, and holds a PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. She is the author of The Great Selkuq Sultanate and the Formation of Islamic Civilization: A Thematic History (forthcoming) and Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry and the 'Ayyar Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World (2007).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• In Memoriam
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Contributors
• Preface, by A.C.S. Peacock and D.G.Tor
• 1. The Importance of Khurasan and Transoxiana in the Persianate Dynastic Period (850–1220)
• 2. The Spread of Ḥanafism to Khurasan and Transoxiana
• 3. The khāṣṣa and the ‘āmma: Intermediaries in the Samanid Polity
• 4. Content versus Context in Samanid Epigraphic Pottery
• 5. A Venture on the Frontier: Alptegin’s Conquest of Ghazna and its Sequel
• 6. Finding Iran in the Panegyrics of the Ghaznavid Court
• 7. Khurasani Historiography and Identity in the Light of the Fragments of the Akhbār Wulāt Khurāsān and the Tārīkh-i Harāt
• 8. The Life and Times of ‘Amīd al-Mulk al-Kundurī
• 9. Local Lords or Rural Notables? Some Remarks on the ra’īs in Twelfth Century Eastern Iran
• 10. The Ghurids in Khurasan