Muslim-Zoroastrian Relations and Religious Violence in Early Islamic Discourse, 600-1100 C.E.
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Andrew David Magnusson
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Humphreys, R. Stephen
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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University of California, Santa Barbara
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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248
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Campo, Juan E.; Daryaee, Touraj; Gallagher, Nancy
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-34979-5
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
History
Body granting the degree
University of California, Santa Barbara
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2014
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This dissertation treats Muslim-Zoroastrian relations between the seventh and eleventh centuries. It challenges the lachrymose narrative of Zoroastrian history, which overemphasizes the role of religious violence in precipitating the decline of Zoroastrianism after the Islamic conquest of Iran. This gloomy narrative is a product of Orientalist tropes, polemical historiographies about the treatment of dhimmis and the effect of the Islamic conquest, the apocalyptic tenor of medieval Zoroastrian sources, and concerns about the status of Zoroastrians in modern Iran and India. Scholars of Zoroastrianism and Iranian languages have written most of the secondary literature on this topic, despite the fact that most of the primary sources were written by Muslims in Arabic. Since few Islamicists have studied Muslim-Zoroastrian relations, the lachrymose narrative persists.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Religious history; Middle Eastern history; Islamic Studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Dhimmi;Iran;Islam;Persia;Violence;Zoroastrianism