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Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative - Memory and Identity Construction in Islamic Historiography, 750-1050 (Hardcover)
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Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative - Memory and Identity Construction in Islamic Historiography, 750-1050 (Hardcover)
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
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Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative analyzes how
early Muslim historians merged the pre-Islamic histories of the
Arab and Iranian peoples into a didactic narrative culminating with
the Arab conquest of Iran. This book provides an in-depth
examination of Islamic historical accounts of the encounters
between representatives of these two peoples that took place in the
centuries prior to the coming of Islam. By doing this, it uncovers
anachronistic projections of dynamic identity and political
discourses within the contemporaneous Islamic world. It shows how
the formulaic placement of such embellishment within the context of
the narrative served to justify the Arabs' rise to power, whilst
also explaining the fall of the Iranian Sasanian empire. The
objective of this book is not simply to mine Islamic historical
chronicles for the factual data they contain about the pre-Islamic
period, but rather to understand how the authors of these works
thought about this era. By investigating the intersection between
early Islamic memory, identity construction, and power discourses,
this book will benefit researchers and students of Islamic history
and literature and Middle Eastern Studies.
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