Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation 1784532398, 9781784532390

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Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation 1784532398, 9781784532390

A.C.S. Peacock is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews, and holds a PhD in Oriental Studie

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Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation 9780755695133, 9780857727435

A.C.S. Peacock is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews, and holds a PhD in Oriental Studie

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Patronage and Poetry in the Islamic World: Social Mobility and Status in the Medieval Middle East and Central Asia 9780755610907, 9781848853690

Panegyric poetry, in both Arabic and Persian, was one of the most important genres of literature in the medieval Middle

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Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World 9781474486408

Analyses contemporary Iranian literature in both Iran and its diaspora, in relation to the social, economic and politica

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Iranian Cinema and the Islamic Revolution 978-0786422852

In spite of international award-winning productions, Iran’s cinema is underexposed. Because of the prevailing religious,

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Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World 9780812294002

In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewi

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‘Pre-Islamic Survivals’ in Muslim Central Asia: Tsarist, Soviet and Post-Soviet Ethnography in World Historical Perspective 9811956960, 9789811956966

The book traces the conceptual lens of historical-cultural ‘survivals’ from the late 19th-century theories of E.B. Tylor

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The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia 1788310039, 9781788310031

Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan - which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia - have long been an imp

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Medieval Monuments of Central Asia: Qarakhanid Architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries 9781474423984

Studies the surviving pre-Mongol monuments of Islamic architecture in Central Asia The first complete overview of the co

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The shaping of Persian art : Collections and interpretations of the art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia 1443849243, 9781443849241

While the impact of the Persian style is undeniably reflected in most aspects of the art and architecture of Islamic Cen

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