Contents
Last of plates page / ix
List of maps / x
Preface / xi
1 The Arab Conquest of Iran and its Aftermath / 1
by 'Abd Al-Husain Zarrinkub, Professor, University of Tehran
2 The 'Abbāsid Caliphate In Iran / 57
by Roy Mottahedeh, Princeton University
3 The Tahirids And Saffarids / 90
by c. E. Bosworth, Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Manchester
4 The Sāmānids / 136
by R. N. Frye, Professor of Iranian, Harvard University
5 The Early Ghaznavids / 162
by c. E. Bosworth
6 The Minor Dynasties of Northern Iran / 198
by W. Madelung, Professor of Islamic History, University of Chicago
7 Iran Under the Būyids / 250
by Heribert Busse, Professor, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel
8 Tribes, Cities And Social Organization / 305
by Claude Cahen, Professor, University of Paris IV
9 The Visual Arts / 329
by Oleg Grabar, Professor of Vine Arts, Harvard University
10 Numismatics / 364
by G. c. Miles, Consultant, American Numismatic Society
11 The Exact Sciences / 378
by E. S. Kennedy, Professor of Mathematics, The American University of Beirut
12 Life Sciences, Alchemy and Medicine / 396
by S. H. Nasr, Professor of Philosophy, University of Tehran; Chancellor, Aryamehr University
13 (a) Philosophy and Cosmology / 419
by s. H. Nasr
(b) Sufism / 442
by s. H. Nasr
14 The Religious Sciences / 464
by s. H. Nasr and M. Mutahhari, Professor of Islamic Philosophy, University of Tehran
15 Sects and Heresies / 481
by B. S. Amoretti, Rome University
16 Nasir-i Khusrau and Iranian Ismā'īlism / 520
by Henry Corbin, Directeur d'Etudes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
17 Zoroastrian Literature After the Muslim Conquest / 543
by the late J. de Menasce, O.P.
18 Arabic Literature in Iran / 566
by Victor Danner, Indiana University
19 The Rise of the New Persian Language / 595
by G. Lazard, Professor, University of Paris III
20 (a) The "Rubā'ī" in Early Persian Literature / 633
by L. P. Elwell-Sutton, Edinburgh University
(b) 'Umar Kjhayyam: Astronomer, Mathematician and Poet / 658
by j . A. Boyle, Professor of Persian Studies, University of Manchester
Bibliography / 665
Index / 699
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