Iran in the Early Islamic Period

Politics, Culture, Administration and Public Life between the Arab and the Seljuk Conquests, 633-1055

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• Iran Studies, Volume: 12

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This book presents a translation of Bertold Spuler’s groundbreaking work on the transformation of Iran from a Persian Zoroastrian Empire to a province of the Arab Muslim Empire to a land divided by a number of Persian and Turkish kingdoms.

Robert G. Hoyland is professor of Middle East history at NYUs Institute for Study of the Ancient World and Oxford’s Oriental Institute. He has published a number of books and articles on the Middle East in the late antique and early Islamic periods, including Seeing Islam as Others saw it (Princeton, 1997) and Arabia and the Arabs (London, 2001).

“Spuler's 1952 German work remains a crucial study of Iran in the Early Islamic Period. […] …excellent translation of a difficult German text […] …a treasure trove of data now available to a wider audience. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate student, faculty, specialists.“ - T. M. May, in: CHOICE vol. 52 no. 10 (June 2015) [DOI: 10.5860/CHOICE.190201. Copyright 2015 American Library Association]

This book will serve as a basic reference book for all students of early Islamic Iran and related regions.