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The present volume contains contributions from Classical Studies which aim at a retrospective interpretation of ceremonies to secure power in the regions of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt and the Levant. The activities in which all wielders of military power in medieval societies, both Islamic and Christian, habitually engaged are so alien to the modern society that there is a tendency to attribute such behaviour to lawless aggression rather than to what were considered to have been respectable actions by elite members of society. The revised understanding of the social role and position of the ʿayyārs laid forth here will enable us to better recognize and contextualize manifestations of that native Muslim military and political initiative.
Futuwwa (Islamic social groups) --- Fotowwa (Islamic social groups) --- Fotowwat (Islamic social groups) --- Futuvvat (Islamic social groups) --- Futūwah (Islamic social groups) --- Futuwwah (Islamic social groups) --- Javānmardī (Islamic social groups) --- Islamic civilization --- Islamic orders of knighthood and chivalry --- Sufism
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"One of the major civilizations of the first millennium was that of the Iranian linguistic and cultural world, which stretched from today's Iraq to what is now the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. No other region of the world underwent such radical transformation, which fundamentally altered the course of world history, as this area did during the centuries of transition from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period. This transformation included the religious victory of Islam over Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, and the other religions of the area; the military and political wresting of Inner Asia from the Chinese to the Islamic sphere of primary cultural influence; and the shifting of Central Asia from a culturally and demographically Iranian civilization to a Turkic one. This book contains essays by many of the preeminent scholars working in the fields of archeology, history, linguistics, and literature of both the pre-Islamic and the Islamic-era Iranian world, shedding light on some of the most significant aspects of the major changes that this important portion of the Asian continent underwent during this tumultuous era in its history. This collection of cutting-edge research will be read by scholars of Middle Eastern, Central Asian, Iranian, and Islamic studies and archaeology."--Publisher description.
To 1500 --- Iran --- Asia, Central --- History
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Islam --- Sunnites --- Islamic civilization --- Civilization. --- Islam. --- Sunnites. --- History --- Iranian influences --- Iranian influences. --- To 1500 --- Asia, Central --- Asia, Central. --- Civilization --- To 1500. --- Central Asia.
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