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Bertold Spuler, Iran in the Early Islamic Period. Politics, Culture, Administration and Public Life between the Arab and the Seljuk Conquests, 633-1055 (Iran Studies, vol.12), Leiden-Boston: “Brill”, 2015, 617 pp.

Bertold Spuler, Iran in the Early Islamic Period. Politics, Culture, Administration and Public... Iran and the Caucasus 19 (2015) 419-420 Book Reviews Bertold Spuler, Iran in the Early Islamic Period. Politics, Culture, Administration and Public Life between the Arab and the Seljuk Conquests, 633-1055 (Iran Studies, vol.12), Leiden-Boston: "Brill", 2015, 617 pp. The book presents an English translation (by G. Goldbloom and B. Walburg) of Bertold Spuler's fundamental work on early Islamic Iran, Iran in früh-islamischer Zeit: Politik, Kultur, Verwaltung und öffentliches Leben zwischen der arabischen und der seldschukischen Eroberung, 633 bis 1055, published in 1952 in Wiesbaden, and is considered to be the magnum opus of this great German Orientalist. It covers a very sensitive and marked period of the history of Iranfrom the Arab invasions in the 630s until the arrival of the Seljuks in 1055. This historical time-span, especially the two first centuries, poetically named by `Abdolosein-e Zarrnkb as "the two centuries of silence" (see Do qarn sokt, Tehran, 1956), is generally characterised by the scarcity of documentary evidence and relevant sources. Spuler's study, therefore, based on almost all available materials attained through sifting a huge amount of historical and literary accounts, remains as yet the main treasure-trove of information for the initial period of the Islamisation of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Iran and the Caucasus Brill

Bertold Spuler, Iran in the Early Islamic Period. Politics, Culture, Administration and Public Life between the Arab and the Seljuk Conquests, 633-1055 (Iran Studies, vol.12), Leiden-Boston: “Brill”, 2015, 617 pp.

Hakobian, Gohar
Iran and the Caucasus , Volume 19 (4): 419 – Dec 14, 2015
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Copyright 2015 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Iran and the Caucasus 19 (2015) 419-420 Book Reviews Bertold Spuler, Iran in the Early Islamic Period. Politics, Culture, Administration and Public Life between the Arab and the Seljuk Conquests, 633-1055 (Iran Studies, vol.12), Leiden-Boston: "Brill", 2015, 617 pp. The book presents an English translation (by G. Goldbloom and B. Walburg) of Bertold Spuler's fundamental work on early Islamic Iran, Iran in früh-islamischer Zeit: Politik, Kultur, Verwaltung und öffentliches Leben zwischen der arabischen und der seldschukischen Eroberung, 633 bis 1055, published in 1952 in Wiesbaden, and is considered to be the magnum opus of this great German Orientalist. It covers a very sensitive and marked period of the history of Iranfrom the Arab invasions in the 630s until the arrival of the Seljuks in 1055. This historical time-span, especially the two first centuries, poetically named by `Abdolosein-e Zarrnkb as "the two centuries of silence" (see Do qarn sokt, Tehran, 1956), is generally characterised by the scarcity of documentary evidence and relevant sources. Spuler's study, therefore, based on almost all available materials attained through sifting a huge amount of historical and literary accounts, remains as yet the main treasure-trove of information for the initial period of the Islamisation of

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