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The Fire, the Star and the Cross: Minority Religions in Medieval and Early Modern Iran Reprint Edition
Author(s): Aptin Khanbaghi (Author)
- Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
- Publication Date: August 30, 2017
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1784537462
- ISBN-13: 9781784537463
Book Description
Contemporary political events have generated a strong interest in minorities in the Middle East. Although today the region is mostly identified with Islam, it has been home to many other great cultures, and the civilization of the Islamic world is itself indebted to the various peoples that the Arabs subdued in the 7th and 8th centuries. Far from fading away after the Arab conquest, the inhabitants of the Iranian plateau and of Mesopotamia were central players in the lives of their regions. However, the magnitude of their contribution to the emergence of the early Islamic world has hitherto been neglected. In this fascinating and groundbreaking study, Khanbaghi offers a comprehensive discussion of those groups that resisted assimilation to the new Islamic order yet continued to participate actively in the socio-political life of their homeland. He concentrates on Iran, which due to its complex religious history offers unique opportunities for the study of non-Muslim communities, specifically of Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians
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About the Author
Aptin Khanbaghi is a scholar of Iranian history, based at the Margaret Beaufort Institute, University of Cambridg
