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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ehsan Yar-Shater |
| ISBN: | 052120092X 9780521200929 0521246938 9780521246934 0521246997 9780521246996 |
| OCLC Number: | 9580501 |
| Notes: | Includes indexes. |
| Description: | 2 volumes (lxxv, 1488 pages, 73 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | VOLUME 3 (1): PART 1: POLITICAL THEORY: The Seleucid Period / E. Bickerman -- The Political history of Iran under the Arsacids / A.D.H. Bivar -- Iranians in Asia Minor / Leo Raditsa -- The political history of Iran under the Sasanians / R.N. Frye -- The history of Eastern Iran / A.D.H. Bivar -- The political history of Transoxiana / E.V. Zeimal -- Iranian settlement east of the Pamirs / R.E. Emmerick -- PART 2: NUMISMATICS: Parthian coins / David Sellwood -- Minor states in Southern Iran / David Sellman -- Sasanian coins / Robert Gobl -- PART 3: IRAN HISTORICAL TRADITION: Iranian common beliefs and world-view / Ehsan Yarshater -- Iranian national history / Ehsan Yarshater -- PART 4: IRAN AND HER NEIGHBOURS: Iran and Mesopotamia / Wilhelm Eilers -- Iran, Armenia, and Georgia / David M. Lang -- Iran and China / William Watson -- Cultural relations between Parthia and Rome / Otto Kurz -- Byzantium and ths Sasanians / Nina Garsoian -- Iran and the Arabs before Islam / C.E. Bosworth -- Irano-Turkish relations in the late Sasanian Period / A. von Gabain. -- VOLUME 2 (2): PART 5: INSTITUTIONS: Iranian society and the law / A. Perikhanian -- Political, social and administrative institutions: taxes and trade / V.G. Lukonin -- Geographical and administrative divisions: settlements and economy / Christopher Brunner -- Time-reckoning / E. Bickerman -- Iranian festivals / Mary Boyce -- PART 6: RELIGIOUS HISTORY: Development of religious thought / Carsten Colpe -- Zoroastian religion / J. Duchesne-Guillemin -- Jews in Iran / J. Neusner -- Christians in Iran / J.P. Asmussen -- Buddhism among Iranian peoples / R.E. Emmerick -- Manichaeism and its Iranian background / G. Widengren -- Mazdakism / Ehsan Yarshater -- PART 7: ART HISTORY: Parthian art / Daniel Schlumberger -- Sasanian art / Dorothy Shepherd -- Sasanian silver / Prudence Harper -- The development of the arts in Transoxiana / Guity Azarpay -- PART 8: LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE: Parthian writings and literature / Mary Boyce -- Zoroastrian Pahlavi writings / J.P. de Menasce -- Manischaean middle Persian writings / Mary Boyce -- Middle Persian inscriptions / Philippe Gignoux -- Sogdian language and literature / Mark Dresden -- Khotanese Saka literature / H.W. Bailey -- Khwarazmian language and literature / D.N. Mackenzie -- Bactrian literature / Ilya Gershevitch -- PART 9: BIBLIOGRAPHY: Sources of Parthian and Sasanian history / G. Widengren. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge history of Iran, v. 3. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Ehsan Yarshater. |
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