Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran - Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism

This learned and engaging study casts new light on the nature of religion in pre-Islamic Iran.

List 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.

About the author

Patricia Crone is Mellon Professor of Islamic History, School of Historical Studies, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. Her numerous publications include Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity (1980, 2003), God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam, coauthored with Martin Hinds (1986, 2003), Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World (1989, 2003) and God's Rule: Government and Islam: Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought (2005).

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 has demonstrated a remarkable persistence in Iran.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Crone
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2014
• EAN: 9781107642386
• ISBN: 978-1-107-64238-6
• No. of pages: 586
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, Iran, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Islam / History, HISTORY / Middle East / Iran, CE period up to c 1500, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, RELIGION / Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrianism