Research Catalog

Title

Iran : a short history : from Islamization to the present / Monika Gronke ; translated from German by Steven Rendall.

Author

Gronke, Monika.

Publication

Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers c2008.

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Details

Description

xvi, 152 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

Monika Gronke presents the history of Iran from the Islamization of the seventh century onwards in a clear and lively style, and describes the cultural, social, and religious developments that shaped Iran and the Iranian self-image.

Subject

• Since 640
• Iran > History > 640-

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-147) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The early Islamic period (642-1055) -- The Arab conquest -- The Islamization of Iran -- Shi'ism -- The doctrine of twelver Shi'ism -- The 'Abbasid Caliphate -- The Samanids -- The Buyids -- The continuing existence of Iranian traditions -- The beginnings of new Persian literature -- Iran under the Turks and Mongols (1055-1501) -- The eleventh century -- From the Saljuqs to the Khwarazm-Shahs -- The Saljuq state -- Sunnism and Shi'ism under the Saljuqs -- The Mongol invasion and its consequences -- -- The Il-Khans -- Concepts of rulership and empire -- Islam under Mongol rule -- Timur and his successors -- Iran in the early modern period (1501/1779) -- Turkish immigration from the West -- The Safavids -- The Safavid state -- Shi'ism under the Safavids -- Iran in the eighteenth century -- From the Qajars to the Islamic republic (1779 to the present) -- The Qajars -- The Qajar state -- Shi'ism in the nineteenth century -- From the constitutional revolution to the Pahlavis -- The Pahlavis -- Political Shi'ism and the Islamic revolution -- The Islamic republic -- Women in modern Iran -- Future prospects.

ISBN

• 1558764453 (pbk.)
• 9781558764453 (pbk.)
• 1558764445 (Cloth) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 263985731
• SCSB-12532366

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library