9 The Long Shadow of Pre-Islamic Iranian Rulership: Antagonism or Assimilation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents III
3. Acknowledgements IV
4. List of Contributors IV
5. 1 Introduction 1
6. 2 A New Look at Mazdak 13
7. 3 Buddhism as Ancient Iranian Paganism 25
8. 4 Eastern Sources on The Roman and Persian War in the Near East 540–545 42
9. 5 Collaborators and Dissidents: Christians in Sasanian Iraq in the Early Fifth Century 57
10. 6 The Khurasan Corpus of Arabic Documents 71
11. 7 The Late Sasanian Army 87
12. 8 Urban Militias in the Eastern Islamic World (Third–Fourth Centuries AH/Ninth–Tenth centuries CE) 128
13. 9 The Long Shadow of Pre-Islamic Iranian Rulership: Antagonism or Assimilation 145
14. INDEX 165