Conflict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Subalterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society

by Jamsheed Choksy

Overview

— Patricia Cone, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Religious Studies Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231106849
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	05/01/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

What People are Saying About This

Gernot L. Windfuhr

In this study of Zoroastrians in Medieval Iranian society, Choksy creates, with exquisite eloquence, detailed knowledge, and empathy, a pioneering historical masterpiece out of the most disparate sources. A delight to read.

— Gernot L. Windfuhr, The Zoroastrian Cosmos and Logos

Oleg Grabar

Using Zoroastrian as well as Muslim sources, Jamsheed Choksy weaves an extraordinary picture of how a rich religious and social community adapted itself to the new religious order of Islam, sometimes compelled unexpected variations in Muslim traditions and ways of rule, and eventually declined. What emerges from the book is the poignancy of a community's disappearance from its ancient land and the power of the new Iranian Islamic world in the process of making itself.

— Oleg Grabar, Institute for Advanced Study