The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran
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- Synopsis
- Patricia Crone's latest 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.
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781107018792
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781139088459
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 10/08/12
- Copyrighted By:
- Patricia Crone
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
Reviews
5 out of 5
By Roy Pfeiffer on Jul 11, 2013
This is a most complete book for understanding the early struggles of reasoning one's way to a specific religious dogma. It's inclusion of Zoroastrianism along with the three better known monotheisms, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is fundamental to an appreciation of coming to one's belief by reason rather than culturally. Unfortunately, the use of some arabic characters in words of that language, rather than those commonly used in English, render the words unpronouncible by my voice synthesizer.