The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran

Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism

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ID19928014
AuthorsPatricia Crone (Institute for Advanced Study, corresponding author)
Year2012
Publication date2012-06-28
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueNativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139088459
OpenAlexW1519973654
Open LibraryOL34474245M
ISBN9781139088459
LanguageEN
Citations received101

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

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · CONQUEST · Geography · Islam · Period (music) · Persistence (discontinuity) · Population · Sociology · Zoroastrianism · Demography · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Geology · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Religious studies · Iran · Religion

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