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The Rule of the Qarakhitai in Kirman

Khwandamir

Khwandamir

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Wheeler M. Thackston

Wheeler M. Thackston

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Classical Writings of the Medieval Islamic World : Persian Histories of the Mongol Dynasties, Volume II: Habibu’s-Siyar: The History of the Mongols and Genghis Khan (Tome 3)

I.B.Tauris, 2012

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...It is well known to historians that after the end of the Khwarazmshahs’ state, ten of the Qarakhitai ruled in Kirman over a period of eighty years. The first of them to rule was Baraq son of Käldür, and the last was Qut–buddin...

Unifying the Frontier

Robert Haug

Robert Haug

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The Eastern Frontier : Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia

IB Tauris, 2019

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...The Ṭāhirids, the Sāmānids and the frontier process In 1953, Vladimir Minorsky coined the term Iranian Intermezzo to describe the period of Iranian history that fell between the era of direct rule by the Arab caliphs of the Rāshidūn...

The Samanids: The First Islamic Dynasty of Central Asia

Luke Treadwell

Luke Treadwell

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Early Islamic Iran

I.B.Tauris, 2012

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...Each one of the chapters in this volume, for all the rich diversity of their subject matters, touches upon a common theme: the impact of pre-Islamic Persian concepts and world-views, which survived the shock of the Arab conquests...

Shaping the Eastern Frontier

Robert Haug

Robert Haug

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The Eastern Frontier : Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia

IB Tauris, 2019

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...When Pīrūz dragged the frontier The history of the Sasanian Empire has long been told from a perspective that favours the western reaches of the empire. Mesopotamia, the administrative heartland of the empire, had a long history...

The khāṣṣa and the ‘āmma: Intermediaries in the Samanid Polity

Louise Marlow

Louise Marlow

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Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World : Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2015

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...The recurrence of the paired categories of khāṣṣa and ‘āmma in descriptions of societies far apart from one another in time and distance attests to the remarkable flexibility of this binary terminology.On these categories, see Roy...

The Unsettled Frontier

Robert Haug

Robert Haug

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The Eastern Frontier : Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia

IB Tauris, 2019

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...Ḥārith b. Surayj at the intersection of revolutionary Islam and Turkish invaders The conquest and integration of Ṭukhāristān and Transoxiana into the Umayyad Caliphate brought regions that had long been outside any form of direct...

Maragha and Samarkand

John Freely

John Freely

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Light from the East : How the Science of Medieval Islam Helped to Shape the Western World

I.B.Tauris, 2011

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...Islamic historical writing reached a peak with the work of Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), whose Muqaddimah (An Introduction to History) was described by Arnold Toynbee as ‘undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind that has ever been created...

Extending the Frontier

Robert Haug

Robert Haug

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The Eastern Frontier : Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia

IB Tauris, 2019

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...Qutayba b. Muslim in Samarqand In the eighth century, the Umayyad presence along the eastern frontier moved from incursions by armies from Iraq and the wild east of rebellious tribesmen fleeing the reach of the imperial authorities...

Out From The Steppe

George Lane

George Lane

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A Short History of The Mongols

I.B. Tauris, 2018

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...A persistent myth that survives among the tales, legends and topoi that constitute Mongol history is the belief that Chinggis Khan and his small coterie of loyal supporters backed by a united army of nomadic warriors acted alone...