Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society

ISBN-13: 9781860641817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 209 str.

Roy Mottahedeh

Opis

An updated classic study of 10th- and 11th-century society in Buyid Iran. Arguing that medieval Islamic society must be understood in its own cultural terms, the author explains how it was able to function in a stable manner without the type of political institutions familiar to the West.