The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism

by Patricia Crone

Book Overview

Patricia Crone's book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there and the religious communities that these revolts revealed. The book also describes a complex of religious ideas that, however varied in space and unstable over time, has demonstrated a remarkable persistence in Iran across a period of two millennia. The central thesis is that this complex of ideas has been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107642388
• ISBN13: 9781107642386
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 586 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"