"This volume is based on discussions at a conference convened by the Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of St. Andrews in March 2013 under the title Eastern Iran and Transoxiana, 750-1150."--Title page verso
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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1. Importance of Khurasan and Transoxiana in the Persianate Dynastic Period (850 --1220)/ D.G. Tor.- 2. Spread of Hanafism to Khurasan and Transoxiana/ Christopher Melchert.- 3. khassa and the 'amma: Intermediaries in the Samanid Polity/ Louise Marlow.- 4. Content versus Context in Samanid Epigraphic Pottery/ Robert Hillenbrand.- 5. Venture on the Frontier: Alptegin's Conquest of Ghazna and its Sequel/ Minoru Inaba.- 6. Finding Iran in the Panegyrics of the Ghaznavid Court/ Roy Mottahedeh.- 7. Khurasani Historiography and Identity in the Light of the Fragments of the Akhbar Wulat Khurasan and the Tarikh-i Harat/ A.C.S. Peacock.- 8. Life and Times of 'Amid al-Mulk al-Kunduri/ Carole Hillenbrand.- 9. Local Lords or Rural Notables? Some Remarks on the ra'is in Twelfth Century Eastern Iran/ Jurgen Paul.- 10. Ghurids in Khurasan/ C. Edmund Bosworth