Reorienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9781474400299 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str.

Khodadad Rezakhani

Opis

Central Asia is commonly imagined as the marginal land on the periphery of Chinese and Middle Eastern civilisations. At best, it is understood as a series of disconnected areas that served as stop-overs along the Silk Road.
However, in the mediaeval period, this region rose to prominence and importance as one of the centres of Persian-Islamic culture, from the Seljuks to the Mongols and Timur.
Khodadad Rezakhani tells the back story of this rise to prominence, the story of the famed Kushans and mysterious 'Asian Huns', and their role in shaping both the Sasanian Empire and the rest of the Middle East.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Preface; Maps; Preface; Introduction; Chapter I: Sasanians and the Sistanis; Chapter 2. Kushans and the Sasanians; Chapter 3. Kushano-Sasanians in East Iran; Chapter 4. The Iranian Huns and the Kidarites; Chapter 5. The Alkhans in the Southern Hindu Kush; Chapter 6. The Hepthalite 'Empire' and its Successors; Chapter 7. Sogdiana in the Kidardite and Hepthalite Periods; Chapter 8. The Ne¯zak and Turk Periods; Chapter 9. Tokharestan and Sogdiana in the Late Sasanian Period; General Conclusions and Postscript; Epilogue and Excursus on the Shahnameh; Bibliography; Index.