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Early Islamic History of Iran: From the Arab Conquest to the Mongol Invasion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Jürgen Paul
Jürgen Paul*
Affiliation:
Institut für Orientalistik, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg
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An Encyclopedia by Tradition Arranges its Material in Alphabetical order. Therefore, the subject matter is broken down into small pieces, which in the case of larger subjects is a problem. Some fields clearly are at an advantage over others, depending on how easily a keyword can be found and fitted to a given set of questions. Some types of keywords seem to lead to a greater fragmentation of the fields treated under them, whereas other types lend themselves more readily to the presentation of larger subjects. The Encyclopaedia Iranica is no exception, and therefore the following review is arranged by types of entries.

Type
Articles
Information
Iranian Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 3-4: A Review of the “Encyclopaedia Iranica” , Summer Fall 1998 , pp. 463 - 471
Copyright
Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1998

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References

1. It is of course tempting to add recent publications to articles that are clearly dated. I have yielded to this temptation only very rarely, and only in instances where the corresponding publications came to mind spontaneously.

2. See Albrecht Noth, The Early Arabic Historical Tradition. A Source-Critical Study (Princeton, 1994—but available in German since 1973) and Khalidi, Tarif Arabic historical thought in the classical period (Cambridge, 1994)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, with further references.

3. See also the recent study by Zakeri, M. Sasanid Soldiers in Early Muslim Society: the Origins of Ayyarun and Futuwwa (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1995)Google Scholar; this book, by the way, is a brilliant example of the amount of information the Encyclopaedia Iranica offers when properly used.