Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation

ISBN-13: 9781784532390 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 256 str.

A. C. S. Peacock

Opis

From the political dissolution of the Abb?sid Caliphate in the mid-ninth century to the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Persianate dynasties of Islamic Central Asia constituted the political and military stronghold of Sunni Islam. It was in this region, historically known as Khurasan and Transoxiana, that many of the important religious and cultural developments of Islamic civilisation took place. The region first gave rise to the Abbasid Revolution, provided the troops for its success, and supplied the military slaves and auxiliaries that led to its political dissolution. From the second part of the ninth century, the Sunni Persianate dynasties formed the mainstay of Islamic military might for the ensuing 400 years over the Islamic heartland, from India to Egypt. The period was also characterized by the cultural dominance of the Persian-speaking court, bringing about the acceptance of classical Persian as the second primary Islamic language of high culture. It produced the writing of many of Islamic civilization s greatest works of poetry, philosophy, biography, history, belles-lettres, and religion, in both Arabic and Persian. This volume explores the origins and nature of this cultural and political florescence, and to shed light on one of the most formative yet unexplored eras of Islamic history."

Spis treści

1. Introduction. A.C.S. Peacock and D.G. Tor 2. The Fate of the Bukhar Khudas: A pre-Islamic dynasty in Islamic Mawaraannahr. Aleksandr Naymark 3. Across the Hindukush of the early Islamic period. Minoru Inaba 4. The early spread of Hanafism in Khurasan. Christopher Melchert 5. Female public figures in mediaeval Balkh. Arezou Azad 6. Zone of transition: The art of Northern Afghanistan in the 7th/8th – 10th century. Deborah Klimburg-Salter 7. Content versus context in Samanid epigraphic pottery. Robert Hillenbrand 8. The king and his kh?ssa in a Samanid work of advice: relations and responsibilities. Louise Marlow 9. Al-Tha’?lib?’s memorable Thim?r al-qul?b f? al-mu’?f wa-l-mans?b: A portrait of an eleventh-century cultural broker. Sarah Savant 10. A Khurasani city under Turkish rule: Herat between the Ghaznavids and Seljuqs. A.C. S. Peacock 11. The life and times of al-Kunduri. Carole Hillenbrand 11. Rural notables, local lords? Remarks on the ra’is in 12th-century eastern Iran. Jürgen Paul 12. The Ghurids in Khurasan. C. Edmund Bosworth