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
Cambridge University Press, 2012
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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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