Author: Allen ZagarellPublisher:
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Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The Role of Highland Pastoralism in the Development of Iranian Civilization
Author: Allen ZagarellNomadism in Iran
Author: D. T. PottsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199330808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The classic images of Iranian nomads in circulation today and in years past suggest that Western awareness of nomadism is a phenomenon of considerable antiquity. Though nomadism has certainly been a key feature of Iranian history, it has not been in the way most modern archaeologists have envisaged it. Nomadism in Iran recasts our understanding of this "timeless" tradition. Far from constituting a natural adaptation on the Iranian Plateau, nomadism is a comparatively late introduction, which can only be understood within the context of certain political circumstances. Since the early Holocene, most, if not all, agricultural communities in Iran had kept herds of sheep and goat, but the communities themselves were sedentary: only a few of their members were required to move with the herds seasonally. Though the arrival of Iranian speaking groups, attested in written sources beginning in the time of Herodutus, began to change the demography of the plateau, it wasn't until later in the eleventh century that an influx of Turkic speaking Oghuz nomadic groups-"true" nomads of the steppe-began the modification of the demography of the Iranian Plateau that accelerated with the Mongol conquest. The massive, unprecedented violence of this invasion effected the widespread distribution of largely Turkic-speaking nomadic groups across Iran. Thus, what has been interpreted in the past as an enduring pattern of nomadic land use is, by archaeological standards, very recent. Iran's demographic profile since the eleventh century AD, and more particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth century, has been used by some scholars as a proxy for ancient social organization. Nomadism in Iran argues that this modernist perspective distorts the historical reality of the land. Assembling a wealth of material in several languages and disciplines, Nomadism in Iran will be invaluable to archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians of the Middle East and Central Asia.
Elam
Author: Elizabeth CarterPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520099500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The Role of Highland Pastoralism in the Development of Iranian Civilization
Author: Allen ZagarellUniversity of California Publications
Author: ARCHIT OF WESTERN IRAN
Author: HOLE FRANKPublisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Orientalia
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Category : Middle Eastern philology
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Iran
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Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Vols. 1-18, 1963-80, include the Director's report, 1961/62-1978/79; v. 25, 1987 includes "Summary of annual reports of the institute 1980 to 1986"; v. 26- , 1988- , include the Report of the Council, 1986/87- (published also in the institute's Report).
Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus
Author: Wolfgang BehnPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047414357
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
This third and last of the three-volume Who’s Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia. Taking as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus, the author, Wolfgang Behn (Berlin), has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user to quickly gain knowledge on the life, work, and professional background of almost every major and minor author, and thus to place each author in his/her proper perspective. A tremendous achievement and a true must for every library.
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