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Early Islamic Iran This Volume is dedicated to Oleg Grabar and Iraj Afsha Already available in The Idea of Iran series Birth of the Persian Empire, Vol. 1 Edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis (British Museum) and Sarah Stewart (SOAS, London). ISBN: 978–1–84511–062–5 The Age of the Parthians, Vol. 2 Edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis (British Museum) and Sarah Stewart (SOAS, London). ISBN: 978–1–84511–406–0 The Sasanian Era, Vol. 3 Edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis (British Museum) and Sarah Stewart (SOAS, London). ISBN: 978–1–84511–690–3 The Rise of Islam, Vol. 4 Edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis (British Museum) and Sarah Stewart (SOAS, London). ISBN: 978–1–84511–691–0 Published in 2012 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com Distributed in the United States and Canada Exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 Copyright © London Middle East Institute, 2012 The right of Edmund Herzig & Sarah Stewart to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. The Idea of Iran Vol. 5 ISBN 978 1 78076 061 2 eISBN 978 1 78672 446 5 ePDF 978 1 78673 446 4 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: available Typeset by P. Fozooni Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements ix Foreword 1 The Samanids: The first Islamic Dynasty of Central Asia 3 Luke Treadwell The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: The survival of Ancient Iranian 16 Ethical Concepts in Persian Popular Narratives of the Islamic Period Ulrich Marzolph Arts of Iran in Late Antiquity 30 Oleg Grabar Sindbādnāma: A Zurvanite Cosmogonic Legend? 42 Mohsen Zakeri Early Persian Historians and the Heritage of Pre-Islamic Iran 59 A.C.S. Peacock Advice Literature in Tenth and Early Eleventh-Century Iran 76 and Early Persian Prose Writing Louise Marlow The Expression of Power in the Art and Architecture 102 of Early Islamic Iran Jonathan M. Bloom The Lofty Castle of Qābus b. Voshmgir 120 Melanie Michailidis Authority and Identity in the Pahlavi Books 139 Alan Williams The Idea of Iran in the Buyid Dominions 153 Roy Parviz Mottahedeh List of Abbreviations 161 Bibliography 162 Illustrations Sarvestan, Fire Temple (?) 8th century. Photo: Jonathan M. Bloom 104 and Sheila S. Blair. Balkh, Abbasid Mosque, 9th century. Photo: Jonathan M. Bloom and 106 Sheila S. Blair. Bukhara, Mausoleum of the Samanids, 10th century. Photo: Jonathan 107 M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair. Bukhara, Mausoleum of the Samanids, detail of inscription over the 108 portal. Photo: Jonathan M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair. Silk textile made for Abu’l- Mansur Bukhtegīn (d. 961), known as the 108 ‘Suaire de Saint-Josse’, Paris, Louvre. Earthenware bowl from Nishapur or Samarqand, 10th century. 109 Copenhagen, David Collection, 22.1974. Isfahan, Portal to the Jurjir (Hakim) Mosque, c. 1000. Photo: Jonathan 110 M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair. Persepolis: Inscription of Adud al-Dawla, 955–6. Photo: Jonathan 111 M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair. Silk twill inscribed with the names of Zādānfarrūkh and Bahā al-Dawla, 114 c. 1000. Washington, DC, Textile Museum, no. 3.116. Set of silver vessels inscribed with the name of Valgīr b. Hārūn, c. 1000. 115 Tehran, Museum of Islamic Art (after Pope and Ackerman, Survey). Damghan, Minaret of the Tarik Khane Mosque, 1026–32. Photo: 116 Jonathan M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair. Gonbad-e Qābus. 122 Mil-e Rādkān. 130 Tomb Tower, Lājim. 132 Tomb Tower, Resget. 133
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