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.
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