The nativist prophets of early Islamic Iran : rural revolt and local Zoroastrianism

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The nativist prophets of early Islamic Iran : rural revolt and local Zoroastrianism

Patricia Crone

Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Patricia Crone's book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there and the religious communities that these revolts revealed. The book also describes a complex of religious ideas that, however varied in space and unstable over time, has demonstrated a remarkable persistence in Iran across a period of two millennia. The central thesis is that this complex of ideas has been endemic to the mountain population of Iran and occasionally become epidemic with major consequences for the country, most strikingly in the revolts examined here and in the rise of the Safavids who imposed Shi'ism on Iran. This learned and engaging book by one of the most influential scholars of early Islamic history casts entirely new light on the nature of religion in pre-Islamic Iran and on the persistence of Iranian religious beliefs both outside and inside Islam after the Arab conquest.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. The Revolts: 2. The Jibal: Sunbadh, the Muslimiyya
  • 3. Azerbaijan: Babak
  • 4. Khurasan: Muhammira, Khidashiyya, Rawandiyya, Harithiyya
  • 5. Sogdia and Turkestan: Ishaq
  • 6. Sogdia: al-Muqanna and the Mubayyida
  • 7. South-eastern Iran: Bihafaridh, Ustadh Sis, and Yusuf al-Barm
  • 8. The nature of the revolts
  • 9. The aftermath
  • Part II. The Religion: 10. God, cosmology, and eschatology
  • 11. Divine indwelling
  • 12. Reincarnation
  • 13. Ethos, organisation, overall character
  • 14. Khurrami beliefs in pre-Islamic sources
  • 15. Regional and official Zoroastrianism: doctrines
  • 16. Regional and official Zoroastrianism on the ground
  • Part III. Women and Property: 17. 'Wife-sharing'
  • 18. The Mazdakite utopia and after
  • Part IV. Conclusion: 19. Iranian religion versus Islam and inside it
  • Appendices.

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  • NCID
    BB10120939
  • ISBN
    • 9781107018792
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvii, 566 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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