Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World
Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation
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Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World
Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation
About this book
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).
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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