عنوان

Narrative and Iranian Identity in the New Persian Renaissance and the Later Perso-Islamicate World

Number

TL48754

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Narrative and Iranian Identity in the New Persian Renaissance and the Later Perso-Islamicate World

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Conrad Justin Harter

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Daryaee, Touraj

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, Irvine

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

258

Text of Note

Committee members: Given, James B.; LeVine, Mark A.

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-78459-5

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

History

Body granting the degree

University of California, Irvine

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

In tenth century Khurasan and Transoxania, at the frontier of the Iranian cultural world, mythical and historical narratives such as the Shahnama helped to shape and maintain a sense of group Iranian identity for the Samanids and other Iranian Islamic dynasties. The Shahnama can be considered what narrative theorist Margaret Somers terms an "ontological narrative." These narratives helped Islamic dynasties such as the Samanids understand what it meant to be Iranian, and also became sources of identity for their Arab and Turkic neighbors. The term "Iran," or "Iranshahr" as the empire of the Sasanians was known (224-651 CE), refers to a political unity which did not exist in the domains of the Samanids. How did such a concept, removed from its original geography, inform cultural identities? To what extent was the idea of "Iran" tied to a pre-Islamic geographical, political, and Zoroastrian religious concept, and how was it reinterpreted in a post-Abbasid world?

Middle Eastern history; Islamic Studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;Iran;Khurasan;Samanid;Shahnama;Tajiks;Transoxania

Eklundh, Emmy

Daryaee, Touraj

Subdivision

History

University of California, Irvine

Call Number

1794656154; 10117056

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[Thesis]

276903

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