Roy Mottahedeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 168203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Mottahedeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Mottahedeh |
| SIGNATURE | MOTTAHEDEH R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Eastern Frontier
"Transoxiana, Khurasan, and Tukharistan - which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval periods, the region was both an eastern political boundary for Persian and Islamic empires and a cultural border separating communities of sedentary farmers from pastoral-nomads. Given its peripheral location, the history of the 'eastern frontier' in this period has often …
Public and Private as Viewed through the Work of the Muhtasib
THE muhtasib (also called ‘amil al-suq and sahib al-suq) was the inspector of public places and behavior in towns in the premodern Middle East and North Africa (and in some communities of Muslims elsewhere).* While the term muhtasib is usually translated as “market inspector,” this official’s actual charge was much broader. Based on the injunction “to command the right and forbid the wrong,” the history of which injunction is told with breathtaki…
The Mantle of the Prophet
Drawn from the first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, Roy Mottahedeh's absorbing tale of Islam and Politics in revolutionary Iran is widely regarded as one of the best records of that turbulent time ever written. This revised edition includes a new chronology detailing events in Iran from the revolution right up to the present day and Ahmadinejad's controversial regime. There is simply no better resource for understanding Iran's past, present, and …
Islam, Biography, and the Transmission of Knowledge
Images of Iran
The Mantle of the Prophet
The ‘Abbāsid Caliphate in Iran
This chapter gives an account of all the principal political events in Iran under the 'Abbāsids and then discusses the long-term significance of these events for the history of that country; but it should never be forgotten that the 'Abbāsids intended to create and for a time nearly succeeded in creating a universal Islamic empire. When Zaidī 'Alid pretenders rebelled in the Yemen and in Māzandarān they posed essentially similar political threats…
The Patricians of Nishapur
Sources for the Study of Iran
Oliver Wendell Holmes when he taught anatomy at the Harvard Medical School in the 19th century used to begin his lecture on the skull by picking up each bone and describing its position: “The frontal bone borders on the parietal bone, the parietal bone borders on the occipital bone,” and so on, until he came to the sphenoid bone, a bone composed of many pieces that seem to border on everything and assume all shapes. He is supposed to have picked …
The Mantle of the Prophet
Drawn from the first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, Roy Mottahedeh's absorbing tale of Islam and Politics in revolutionary Iran is widely regarded as one of the best records of that turbulent time ever written. This revised edition includes a new chronology detailing events in Iran from the revolution right up to the present day and Ahmadinejad's controversial regime. There is simply no better resource for understanding Iran's past, present, and …
The Mantle of the Prophet
Public and Private as Viewed through the Work of the Muhtasib
THE muhtasib (also called ‘amil al-suq and sahib al-suq) was the inspector of public places and behavior in towns in the premodern Middle East and North Africa (and in some communities of Muslims elsewhere).* While the term muhtasib is usually translated as “market inspector,” this official’s actual charge was much broader. Based on the injunction “to command the right and forbid the wrong,” the history of which injunction is told with breathtaki…
The Patricians of Nishapur
Sources for the Study of Iran
Oliver Wendell Holmes when he taught anatomy at the Harvard Medical School in the 19th century used to begin his lecture on the skull by picking up each bone and describing its position: “The frontal bone borders on the parietal bone, the parietal bone borders on the occipital bone,” and so on, until he came to the sphenoid bone, a bone composed of many pieces that seem to border on everything and assume all shapes. He is supposed to have picked …
The ‘Abbāsid Caliphate in Iran
This chapter gives an account of all the principal political events in Iran under the 'Abbāsids and then discusses the long-term significance of these events for the history of that country; but it should never be forgotten that the 'Abbāsids intended to create and for a time nearly succeeded in creating a universal Islamic empire. When Zaidī 'Alid pretenders rebelled in the Yemen and in Māzandarān they posed essentially similar political threats…
The Patricians of Nishapur
The Mantle of the Prophet
Images of Iran
Islam, Biography, and the Transmission of Knowledge
The Mantle of the Prophet
Drawn from the first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, Roy Mottahedeh's absorbing tale of Islam and Politics in revolutionary Iran is widely regarded as one of the best records of that turbulent time ever written. This revised edition includes a new chronology detailing events in Iran from the revolution right up to the present day and Ahmadinejad's controversial regime. There is simply no better resource for understanding Iran's past, present, and …
Public and Private as Viewed through the Work of the Muhtasib
THE muhtasib (also called ‘amil al-suq and sahib al-suq) was the inspector of public places and behavior in towns in the premodern Middle East and North Africa (and in some communities of Muslims elsewhere).* While the term muhtasib is usually translated as “market inspector,” this official’s actual charge was much broader. Based on the injunction “to command the right and forbid the wrong,” the history of which injunction is told with breathtaki…
The Eastern Frontier
"Transoxiana, Khurasan, and Tukharistan - which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval periods, the region was both an eastern political boundary for Persian and Islamic empires and a cultural border separating communities of sedentary farmers from pastoral-nomads. Given its peripheral location, the history of the 'eastern frontier' in this period has often …
Islamic Studies and History (8 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)