Table of Contents

List of plates; List of maps; Preface; 1. The Arab conquest of Iran and its aftermath 'Abd Al-Husain Zarrinkub; 2. The 'Abbasid Caliphate in Iran Roy Mottahedeh; 3. The tahirids and saffarids C. E. Bosworth; 4. The samanids R. N. Frye; 5. The early Ghaznavids C. E. Bosworth; 6. The minor dynasties of Northern Iran W. Madelung; 7. Iran under the buyids Heribert Busse; 8. Tribes, cities and social organization Claude Cahen; 9. The visual arts Oleg Grabar; 10. Numismatics G. C. Miles; 11. The exact sciences E. S. Kennedy; 12. Life sciences, alchemy and medicine S. H. Nasr; 13a. Philosophy and cosmology S. H. Nasr; 13b. Sufism S. H. Nasr; 14. The religious sciences S. H. Nasr and M. Mutahhari; 15. Sects and heresies B. S. Amoretti; 16. Nasir-i Khusrau and Iranian Isma'ilism Henry Corbin; 17. Zoroastrian literature after the muslim conquest J. de Menasce, O.P.; 18. Arabic literature in Iran Victor Danner; 19. The rise of the new Persian language G. Lazard; 20a. The 'Ruba'i'' in early Persian literature L. P. Elwell-Sutton; 20b. 'Umar Khayyam: astronomer, mathematician and poet J. A. Boyle; Bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

The volume provides a comprehensive record of the formative centuries of Islam in Iran.