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The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran - Tradition, Memory, and Conversion (Hardcover, New)
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The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran - Tradition, Memory, and Conversion (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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How do converts to a religion come to feel an attachment to it? The
New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran answers this important question
for Iran by focusing on the role of memory and its revision and
erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries. During this period, the
descendants of the Persian imperial, religious, and
historiographical traditions not only wrote themselves into starkly
different early Arabic and Islamic accounts of the past but also
systematically suppressed much knowledge about pre-Islamic history.
The result was both a new Persian ethnic identity and the pairing
of Islam with other loyalties and affiliations, including family,
locale, and sect. This pioneering study examines revisions to
memory in a wide range of cases, from Iran's imperial and
administrative heritage to the Prophet Muhammad's stalwart Persian
companion, Salman al-Farisi, and to memory of Iranian scholars,
soldiers, and rulers in the mid-seventh century. Through these
renegotiations, Iranians developed a sense of Islam as an
authentically Iranian religion, as they simultaneously shaped the
broader historiographic tradition in Arabic and Persian."
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