Sarah Bowen Savant

The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the role of memory and its revision and erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9781107014084
• ISBN-10: 1107014085
• Artikelnr.: 39380785

Autorenporträt

Sarah Bowen Savant is a historian of religion and an Associate Professor at the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London. Her publications include Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies: Understanding the Past (2013), co-edited with Helena de Felipe, as well as book chapters and journal articles treating early Islamic history and historiography.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Prior connections to Islam
2. Muhammad's Persian companion, Salman al-Farisi
3. Finding meaning in the past
4. Reforming Iranians' memories of pre-Islamic times
5. The unhappy prophet
6. Asserting the end of the past.