The nativist prophets of early Islamic Iran
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 un...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- I. The Revolts: A, Wester Iran: 2. The Jibāl: Sunbādh, the Muslimiyya; 3. Azerbaijan: Bābak; B. Eastern Iran: 4. Khurāsān: Muḥammira, Khidāshiyya, Rāwandiyya, Ḥārithiyya; 5. Sogdia and Turkestan: Isḥāq; 6. Sogdia: al-Muqannaʻ and the Mubayyiḍa; 7. South-eastern Iran: Bihāfarīdh, ustādhsīs, and Yūsuf al-Barm; 8. The nature of the revolts; 9. The aftermath
- II. The Religion: A. Reconstituting the Beliefs: 10. God, cosmology, and eschatology; 11. Divine indwelling; 12. Reincarnation; 13. Ethos, organisation, overall character; B. Khurramī Beliefs and Zoroastrianism: 14. Khurramī beliefs in pre-Islamic sources; 15. Regional and official Zoroastrianism: doctrines; 16. Regional and official Zoroastrianism on the ground
- III. Women and Property: 17. 'Wife-sharing'; 18. The Mazdakite utopia and after
- IV. Conclusion: 19. Iranian religion versus Islam and inside it
- Appendix 1. Sharon and the Khidāshiyya
- Appendix 2. Widengren on Bābak's Mithraic wedding ceremony