Reorienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity

by Khodadad Rezakhani

Book Overview

Central Asia is commonly imagined as the marginal land on the periphery of Chinese and Middle Eastern civilisations. At best, it is understood as a series of disconnected areas that served as stop-overs along the Silk Road.
However, in the mediaeval period, this region rose to prominence and importance as one of the centres of Persian-Islamic culture, from the Seljuks to the Mongols and Timur.
Khodadad Rezakhani tells the back story of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474437788
• ISBN13: 9781474437783
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"