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The new Muslims of post-conquest Iran : tradition, memory, and conversion / Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilizationPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781461944942
  • 1461944945
  • 9781139013437
  • 1139013432
  • 9781107291164
  • 110729116X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New Muslims of post-conquest IranDDC classification:
  • 297.0955 23
LOC classification:
  • BP63.I68 S28 2013eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Prior connections to islam -- Muḥammad's Persian companion, Salman al-Farisi -- Finding meaning in the past -- Reforming Iranians' memories of pre-Islamic times -- The unhappy prophet -- Asserting the end of the past.
Summary: 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prior connections to islam -- Muḥammad's Persian companion, Salman al-Farisi -- Finding meaning in the past -- Reforming Iranians' memories of pre-Islamic times -- The unhappy prophet -- Asserting the end of the past.

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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.