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Title The Oxford handbook of Iranian history / edited by Touraj Daryaee
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 414 pages) : maps
Series Oxford handbooks
Oxford handbooks.
Contents The Iranian Plateau from Paleolithic times to the rise of the Achaemenid Empire / Kamyar Abdi -- The Elamites / Daniel T. Potts -- Avestan society / Prods Oktor Skjærvø -- The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550-330 BCE) / A. Shapour Shahbazi -- Iran at the time of Alexander the Great and the Seleucids / Evangelos Venetis -- The Arsacid Empire / Edward Dąbrowa -- The Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE) / Touraj Daryaee -- Iran in the Early Islamic Period / Michael G. Morony -- Medieval Iran / Neguin Yavari -- The Mongols in Iran / George E. Lane -- Timurids and Turcomans: transition and flowering in the fifteenth century / Ali Anooshahr -- The Safavids in Iranian history (1501-1722) / Kathryn Babayan -- The Afghan interlude and the Zand and Afshar dynasties (1722-95) / Kamran Scot Aghaie -- Qajar Iran (1795-1921) / Mansoureh Ettehadieh Nezam-Mafi -- The Pahlavi Era: Iranian modernity in global context / Afshin Matin-Asgari -- Iran after revolution (1979-2009) / Maziar Behrooz -- Ruling dynasties of Iran
Summary This Handbook is a current, comprehensive single-volume history of Iranian civilization. The authors, all leaders in their fields, emphasize the large-scale continuities of Iranian history while also describing the important patterns of transformation that have characterized Iran's past. Each of the chapters focuses on a specific epoch of Iranian history and surveys the general political, social, cultural, and economic issues of that era. The ancient period begins with chapters considering the anthropological evidence of the prehistoric era, through to the early settled civilizations of the Iranian plateau, and continuing to the rise of the ancient Persian empires. The medieval section first considers the Arab-Muslim conquest of the seventh century, and then moves on to discuss the growing Turkish influence filtering in from Central Asia beginning in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The last third of the book covers Iran in the modern era by considering the rise of the Safavid state and its accompanying policy of centralization, the introduction of Shi'ism, the problems of reform and modernization in the Qajar and Pahlavi periods, and the revolution of 1978-79 and its aftermath. The book is a collaborative exercise among scholars specializing in a variety of sub-fields, and across a number of disciplines, including history, art history, classics, literature, politics, and linguistics. Here, readers can find a reliable and accessible narrative that can serve as an authoritative guide to the field of Iranian studies.--Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Civilization
SUBJECT Iran -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067895
Iran -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067884
Subject Iran
Iran.
Genre/Form History
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Handboeken (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Daryaee, Touraj, 1967- editor.
ISBN 9780199940882
0199940886
Other Titles Handbook of Iranian history
Iranian history