Conflict and Cooperation - Zoroastrian Subalterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society

-- Patricia Cone, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Religious Studies Review

About the author

Jamsheed Choksy

Summary

This text explores the consequences of the meeting in medieval Iran of two religious communities - Zoroastrians and Muslims. It examines patterns of communal behaviour during the seventh to thirteenth centuries AD and suggest how both groups were transformed.

Product details

• Authors: Jamsheed Choksy, Jamsheed K. Choksy
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.1997
• EAN: 9780231106849
• ISBN: 978-0-231-10684-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, Iran, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Islam / General, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia, Central Asia, CE period up to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, RELIGION / Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrianism