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Summary
Summary
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.
Author Notes
Patricia Crone was born on March 28, 1945 in Kyndelose, Denmark. She received undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She taught at Oxford University and Cambridge University before joining the Institute for Advanced Study, an independent research center, where she was a professor from 1997 until retiring in 2014.
She explored archaeological records and contemporary Greek and Aramaic sources to challenge views on the roots and evolution of Islam. She wrote numerous books during her lifetime including Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World written with Michael Cook, God's Rule: Government and Islam: Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought, and The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran. She died from cancer on July 11, 2015 at the age of 70.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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 |
