By Sarah Bowen Savant

ISBN-10: 1107014085

ISBN-13: 9781107014084

ISBN-10: 1107529859

ISBN-13: 9781107529854

How do converts to a faith come to consider an attachment to it? the recent Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran solutions this crucial query for Iran through targeting the position of reminiscence and its revision and erasure within the 9th to 11th centuries. in this interval, the descendants of the Persian imperial, spiritual and historiographical traditions not just wrote themselves into starkly varied early Arabic and Islamic debts of the prior but additionally systematically suppressed a lot wisdom approximately pre-Islamic background. the end result was once either a brand new 'Persian' ethnic identification and the pairing of Islam with different loyalties and affiliations, together with kin, locale and sect. This pioneering research examines revisions to reminiscence in a variety of circumstances, from Iran's imperial and administrative history to the Prophet Muhammad's stalwart Persian significant other, Salman al-Farisi, and to reminiscence of Iranian students, infantrymen and rulers within the mid-seventh century.

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