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001 2007033337
003 DLC
005 20090828085124.0
008 070810s2008 njuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007033337
020 $a9781558764446 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hger
043 $aa-ir---
050 00 $aDS272$b.G7613 2008
082 00 $a955$222
100 1 $aGronke, Monika.
240 10 $aGeschichte Irans.$lEnglish
245 10 $aIran :$ba short history /$cMonika Gronke ; translated from German by Steven Rendall.
260 $aPrinceton :$bMarkus Wiener Publishers,$cc2008.
300 $axvi, 152 p. :$bill., maps ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 145-147) and index.
505 0 $aThe early Islamic period (642-1055) -- The Arab conquest -- The Islamization of Iran -- Shi'ism -- The doctrine of twelver Shi'ism -- The Abbasid Caliphate -- The Samanids -- The Buyids -- The continuing existence of Iranian traditions -- The beginnings of new Persian literature -- Iran under the Turks and Mongols (1055-1501) -- The eleventh century -- From the Saljuqs to the Khwarazm-Shahs -- The Saljuq state -- Sunnism and Shi'ism under the Saljuqs -- The Mongol invasion and its consequences -- -- The Il-Khans -- Concepts of rulership and empire -- Islam under Mongol rule -- Timur and his successors -- Iran in the early modern period (1501/1779) -- Turkish immigration from the West -- The Safavids -- The safavid state -- Shi'ism under the Safavids -- Iran in the eighteenth century -- The history of Iran from Islamization to the present -- From the Qajars to the Islamic republic (1779 to the present) -- The Qajars -- The Qajar state -- Shi'ism in the nineteenth century -- From the constitutional revolution to the Pahlavis -- The Pahlavis -- Political Shi'ism and the Islamic revolution -- The Islamic republic -- Women in modern Iran -- Future prospects.
651 0 $aIran$xHistory$y640-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0725/2007033337.html