| ISBN |
1784532398 (hbk.) |
| 9781784532390 (hbk.) |
| Title |
Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate world : Iranian tradition and Islamic civilisation / edited by A.C.S. Peacock and D.G. Tor |
| Publisher |
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015 |
| Physical desc. |
xxvi, 228 p., [12] p. of plates ; ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
I.B. Tauris and BIPS Persian studies series 7 |
| Note |
"This volume is based on discussions at a conference convened by the Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of St. Andrews in March 2013 under the title Eastern Iran and Transoxiana, 750-1150."--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The importance of Khurasan and Transoxiana in the Persianate dynastic period (850-1220) / D.G. Tor -- The spread of Hanafism to Khurasan and Transoxiana / Christopher Melchert -- The khassa and the 'amma: intermediaries in the Samanid polity / Louise Marlow -- Content versus context in Samanid epigraphic pottery / Robert Hillenbrand -- A venture on the frontier: Alptegin's conquest of Ghazna and its sequel / Minoru Inaba -- Finding Iran in the panegyrics of the Ghaznavid court / Roy Mottahedeh -- Khurasani historiography and identity in the light of the fragments of the Akhbar Wulut Khurasan and the Tarikh-i Harat / A.C.S. Peacock -- The life and times of 'Amid al-Mulk al-Kunduri / Carole Hillenbrand -- Local lords or rural notables? some remarks on the ra'is in twelfth-century eastern Iran / Jürgen Paul -- The Ghurids in Khurasan / C. Edmund Bosworth. |
| Meeting |
Eastern Iran and Transoxiana, 750-1150 (Conference) (2013 : University of St Andrews) |
| Subject |
Islam -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses |
| Sunnites -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses |
| Islamic civilization -- Iranian influences -- Congresses |
| Asia, Central -- Civilization -- Congresses |
| Iran -- History -- 640-1256 -- Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Peacock, A. C. S. (Andrew C. S.) ed. |
| Tor, D. G. (Deborah Gerber) ed. |
