Khodadad Rezakhani

ReOrienting the Sasanians (eBook, ePUB)

East Iran in Late Antiquity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Central Asia is commonly imagined as the marginal land on the periphery of Chinese and Middle Eastern civilisations. At best, it is understood as a series of disconnected areas that served as stop-overs along the Silk Road. However, in the mediaeval period, this region rose to prominence and importance as one of the centres of Persian-Islamic culture, from the Seljuks to the Mongols and Timur. Khodadad Rezakhani tells the back story of this rise to prominence, the story of the famed Kushans and mysterious 'Asian Huns', and their role in shaping both the Sasanian Empire and the rest of the Middle East.Contextualises Persian history in relation to the history of Central Asia Extends the concept of late antiquity further east than is usually done Surveys the history of Iran and Central Asia between 200 and 800 CE and contextualises the rise of Islam in both regions

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474400312
• Artikelnr.: 50402481

Autorenporträt

Khodadad Rezakhani is an Associate Research Scholar at the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-RahmanI Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preliminaries: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's
Preface; Maps; Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Sasanians and the Sistanis
Chapter 2. Kushans and the Sasanians
Chapter 3. Kushano-Sasanians in East Iran
Chapter 4. The Iranian Huns and the Kidarites
Chapter 5. The Alkhans in the Southern Hindu Kush
Chapter 6. The Hepthalite 'Empire' and its Successors
Chapter 7. Sogdiana in the Kidardite and Hepthalite Periods
Chapter 8. The Ne¯zak and Turk Periods
Chapter 9. Tokharestan and Sogdiana in the Late Sasanian Period
General Conclusions and Postscript
Epilogue and Excursus on the Shahnameh; Bibliography; Index