Iranian Civilization and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iranian Civilization and Culture write by Muḥammad Muḥammadī Malāyirī. This book was released on 2012. Iranian Civilization and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book sheds light on the various aspects of the impact of pre-Islamic Iranian literature and culture on Arabic literature and Islamic culture, following the Arabic conquests and the collapse of the Sassanid Empire in Iran in the seventh century. It covers a period in Iranian literary history, dominated by the Arabic language, which was the language of the Quran, when Iranian scholars and administrators were transferring Irans literary and administrative heritage through translation of Iranian books into Arabic and adaptation of Iranian traditions and practices, including the Sassanid administrative, financial and agricultural systems and various cultural practices, to the Islamic Caliphate thus ensuring their survival in a period of turmoil and transition from the Sassanid to the Islamic periods. The book relies on scattered references in Arabic sources mainly from the first centuries of Islam, as the original Iranian sources did not survive the Arab conquests, a primary reason why this area of scholarly research has remained mostly in the dark.The significance of research in this area is that without exposing and understanding of their Iranian roots it is not possible to have a deep and comprehensive understanding of Arab and Islamic literature and culture, and particularly their rapid expansion and diversification during the early centuries of Islam. The work has been translated by Shahrokh Mohammadi, son of the author.
The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia
The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia write by D. G. Tor. This book was released on 2022-04-15. The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines the major cultural, religious, political, and urban changes that took place in the Iranian world of Inner and Central Asia in the transition from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic periods. 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. Contributors: D. G. Tor, Frantz Grenet, Nicholas Sims-Williams, Etsuko Kageyama, Yutaka Yoshida, Michael Shenkar, Minoru Inaba, Rocco Rante, Arezou Azad, Sören Stark, Louise Marlow, Gabrielle van den Berg, and Dilnoza Duturaeva.
Cultural Dynamics of Water in Iranian Civilization
Cultural Dynamics of Water in Iranian Civilization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Dynamics of Water in Iranian Civilization write by Majid Labbaf Khaneiki. This book was released on 2020-09-23. Cultural Dynamics of Water in Iranian Civilization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces “water” back to the most primitive animistic notions that are still lingering on in the shape of such rituals as qanat marriage or rain-making. Water, in the Iranian philosophy, is used in an attempt to find an explanation for the genesis of the universe, as described in Zoroastrian Akhshij philosophy, according to which water is one of the four fundamental elements of the creation. The concept of time began to germinate in the Iranian mind, when they had to count the passage of time in order to divide their scarce water resources. Water became so omnipresent in Iranian culture that it reached even the most mysterious seclusion of the Sufi monks. In Iran’s local communities, water culture is a thread that runs through different types of production systems. This book goes beyond indigenous water knowledge and traditional irrigation techniques, and conceptualizes water as a pivotal element of Iran’s social identity, cultural dynamics and belief systems, where it examines the role of intermittent droughts in engendering and diffusing intangible cultural elements across the Iranian plateau. This book delves into Iran’s political organizations most of which were ensnared in a water-dependent lifecycle constituting a historical pattern described in this book as “hydraulic collapse” .
The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran
The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran write by Muhammad A. Dandamaev. This book was released on 2004-11-11. The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The authors look in detail at the highly developed social institutions of the Achaemenid Empire.
Iranian Civilization and Culture
Iranian Civilization and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iranian Civilization and Culture write by Charles J. Adams. This book was released on 1973-01-01. Iranian Civilization and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
