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Encyclopaedia Iranica - 1985Book | Available in print and online

The Encyclopaedia of Islam - Gibb, H. A. R., 1960-2009
Book

The Cambridge history of Iran: Vol. 4: Period from the Arab invasion to the Saljuqs - Frye,
Richard Nelson, 2008
Book

The Cambridge history of Iran: Vol.4: The period from the Arab invasion to the Saljuqs Frye, Richard Nelson, 1975
Book

The Cambridge history of Iran: Vol. 5: Saljuq and Mongol periods - Boyle, John Andrew,
2008
Book

The Cambridge history of Iran: Vol.5: The Saljuq and Mongol periods - Boyle, John Andrew,
1968
Book

The new Cambridge history of Islam - Cook, M. A., 2010

Book

Turkestan down to the Mongol invasion - Bartold, V. V., Bosworth, Clifford Edmund,
American Council of Learned Societies, 1992
Book

Turkestan down to the Mongol invasion - Bartold, V. V., Gibb, H. A. R., 1928
Book

Index Islamicus - Brill Online

Journal

History of Iranian literature - Rypka, Jan, Jahn, Karl, Klma, Otakar, [1968]
Book

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Background Reading:

(245 items)

a) Islamic History (7 items)

The formation of Islam: religion and society in the Near East, 600-1800 - Berkey, Jonathan
Porter, 2003
Book

Medieval Islamic Political Thought - Crone, Patricia, 2004

Book

Muhammad and the believers: at the origins of Islam - Donner, Fred McGraw, 2010
Book

The first dynasty of Islam: the Umayyad caliphate A.D. 661-750 - Hawting, G. R., 1986
Book

The Prophet and the age of the Caliphates: the Islamic Near East from the sixth to the
eleventh century - Kennedy, Hugh, Dawson Books, 2004
Book

The Prophet and the age of the Caliphates: the Islamic Near East from the sixth to the
eleventh century - Kennedy, Hugh, 2004
Book

Islamic historiography - Robinson, Chase F., 2002

Book

b) Iran (5 items)
Empire of the mind: a history of Iran - Axworthy, Michael, 2007
Book

The golden age of Persia: Arabs in the East - Frye, Richard Nelson, 1993
Book

Persian historiography: to the end of the twelfth century - Meisami, Julie Scott, 1999
Book

Persian historiography - C. P. Melville, 2012

Book

Medieval Persia 1040-1797 - Morgan, David, 1988

Book

c) Early Turkish History (3 items)

Central Asia in World History - Golden, Peter B., 2011
Book

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The Cambridge history of early Inner Asia: Vol. 1 - Sinor, Denis, 2008
Book

The Cambridge history of early inner Asia: [Vol. 1]: [From earliest times to the rise of the
Mongols] - Sinor, Denis, 1990
Book

Semester 1:

(230 items)

Week One: Introduction: What Was Iran?

(11 items)

Zoroastrians: their Religious Beliefs and Practices - Boyce, Mary, 1979

Book

The two eyes of the Earth: art and ritual of kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran Canepa, Matthew P., American Council of Learned Societies, 2009
Book

Two eyes of the Earth: competition and exchange in the art and ritual of kingship between
Rome and Sasanian Iran - Canepa, Matthew P., 2009
Book

National History or Keyanid History?: The Nature of Sasanid Zoroastrian Historiography Touraj Daryaee
Article

Sasanian Persia: the rise and fall of an empire - Daryaee, Touraj, 2009
Book

Rome and Persia in late antiquity: neighbours and rivals - Dignas, Beate, Winter, Engelbert,
2007
Book

The two great powers in late antiquity: a comparison - J. Howard-Johnston

Chapter

State and society in late antique Iran - J. Howard-Johnston

Chapter | Also available on MMS.
Contested Memories: Narrative Structures and Allegorical Meanings of Iran's Pre-Islamic
History - Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Article

Ancient Persia from 550 BC to 650 AD - Wiesehfer, Josef, Azodi, Azizeh, 1996
Book | Read especially last chapter.
The Cambridge history of Iran: Vol. 3: Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian periods Yar-Shater, Ehsan, 2008
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Week Two: Arab Conquest and Settlement of Iran (27 items)

The Arab population of Hurasan under the Umayyads: some demographic computations
- Saleh Said Agha
Article

Sistan under the Arabs: from the Islamic conquest to the rise of the S.affarids
(30-250/651-864) - Bosworth, Clifford Edmund, 1968
Book

The Effect of the Arab Muslim Conquest on the Administrative Division of Sasanian Persis /
Fars - Touraj Daryaee
Article

The Cambridge history of Iran: Vol.4: The period from the Arab invasion to the Saljuqs Frye, Richard Nelson, 1975
Book

The Cambridge history of Iran: Vol. 4: Period from the Arab invasion to the Saljuqs - Frye,
Richard Nelson, 2008
Book

Narratives of Islamic origins: the beginnings of Islamic historical writing - Donner, Fred
McGraw, 1998
Book

Encyclopaedia Iranica - 1985Book | Available in print and online

The golden age of Persia: Arabs in the East - Frye, Richard Nelson, 1993
Book

The Arab Invasion of Kashgar in A. D. 715 - H. A. R. Gibb

Article

The Arab conquests in Central Asia - Gibb, H. A. R., 1970

Book

Hinds, M. "The first Arab conquests in Fars" in idem, Studies in Islamic History, Princeton
1996 - Available on MMS.
The venture of Islam: conscience and history in a world civilization - Hodgson, Marshall G.
S., American Council of Learned Societies, 1974
Book | Read discussion of Tabaris historical method, pp. 352-7.
The venture of Islam: conscience and history in a world civilization - Hodgson, Marshall
Goodwin Simms, 1974
Book | Read discussion of Tabaris historical method, pp. 352-7.

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Witnesses to a world crisis: historians and histories of the Middle East in the seventh
century - J. D. Howard-Johnston, 2010
Chapter | (esp. chs. 3, 4, 11, 13 (historiography), 14, 15, 16 (historical reconstruction)).
Witnesses to a world crisis: historians and histories of the Middle East in the seventh
century - Howard-Johnston, J. D., 2010
Book | (esp. chs. 3, 4, 11, 13 (historiography), 14, 15, 16 (historical reconstruction)).
Seeing Islam as others saw it: a survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian
writings on early Islam - Hoyland, Robert G., 1997
Book

The great Arab conquests: how the spread of Islam changed the world we live in Kennedy, Hugh, 2008, 2007
Book

'The Literary use of the Khabar, a basic form of historical writing' - S. Leder
Chapter | Available also on MMS.
'Arab: II. Arab Conquests of Iran' - M. Morony
Chapter

'Conquerors and Conquered: Iran' - M. Morony

Chapter | Available also on MMS.
The Effects of the Muslim Conquest on the Persian Population of Iraq - Michael G. Morony
Article

Continuity and change in the administrative geography of late Sasanian and early Islamic
Iraq - Michael G. Morony
Article

Iraq after the Muslim conquest - Morony, Michael G., American Council of Learned
Societies, 1984
Book

Iraq after the Muslim conquest - Morony, Michael G., 1983

Book

Decline and fall of the Sasanian empire: the Sasanian-Parthian confederacy and the Arab
conquest of Iran - Pourshariati, Parvaneh, Iran Heritage Foundation, 2008
Book

The Conquest of Khuzistan: A Historiographical Reassessment - Chase F. Robinson

Article

Khursn at the time of the Arab conquest - M. Shaban

Chapter | Available also on MMS.

Week Three: Iran and the 'Abbasid Revolution' (18 items)

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Abu Muslim's Conquest of Khurasan: Preliminaries and Strategy in a Confusing Passage of

the Akhbar Al-Dawlah Al-Abbasiyya - Saleh Said Agha, Sep., 2000
Article

The revolution which toppled the Umayyads: neither Arab nor `Abbasid - Agha, ali Sa`id,
2003
Book

'Abd Allah Ibn al-Muqaffa' and the 'Abbasid Revolution - Said Amir Arjomand
Article

Taxation reforms in early Islamic Khurasan: a reassessment - Kh. Athamina, 1988-89

Article

Khurasani revolutionaries and al-Mahdis title - M. Bates

Chapter

Conversion to Islam and the emergence of a Muslim society in Iran - R. Bulliet

Chapter

Conversion to Islam in the medieval period: an essay in quantitative history - Bulliet,

Richard W., American Council of Learned Societies, 1979
Book

Sectarian and national movements in Iran, Khurasan and Transoxiana during Umayyad
and early Abbasid times - F Daftary
Chapter | Available also on MMS.
The political and social history of Khurasan under Abbasid rule, 747-820 - Daniel, Elton L.,
American Council of Learned Societies, 1979
Book

The political and social history of Khurasan under Abbasid rule, 747-820 - Daniel, Elton L.,
1979
Book

The Islamic east - E.L. Daniel

Chapter | Available also on MMS.
The Islamic east - E.L. Daniel
Chapter | Available also on MMS.
The Encyclopaedia of Islam - Gibb, H. A. R., 1960-2009
Book | s.v. Mawla
The early Abbasid caliphate: a political history - Kennedy, Hugh, 1981
Book

The survival of Iranianness

Chapter | Also available on MMS.

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The shaping of Abbasid rule - Lassner, Jacob, 1980

Book

Abu Muslim al-Khurasani: the emergence of a secret agent from Khurasan, Iraq, or was it
Isfahan? - Jacob Lassner, Mar., 1984
Article

Black banners from the East: the establishment of the 'Abbasid state : incubation of a
revolt - Sharon, Moshe, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1983
Book

Week Four: Messianic Movements, Resistance to Islam and

<b>ghuluww<b/> (18 items)
'Sects and heresies' - B.S. Amoretti
Chapter

'Sects and Heresies' - B.S. Amoretti

Chapter

Zoroastrians in Muslim Iran: Selected Problems of Coexistence and Interaction during the
Early Medieval Period - Jamsheed K. Choksy
Article

Kavad's Heresy and Mazdak's Revolt - Patricia Crone

Article

The Muqanna narrative in the Trkhnma: Part I, Introduction, edition and translation Patricia Crone, Masoud Jafari Jazi, 2010-6-23
Article

The Muqanna narrative in the Trkhnma: Part II, Commentary and analysis - Patricia
Crone, Masoud Jafari Jazi, 2010-10-29
Article

A new text on Ismailism at the Samanid court - P. Crone, L. Treadwell

Chapter | Available also on MMS.
The Isma`ilis - Daftary, Farhad, 1990
Book | Especially Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4.
Apocalypse Now: Zoroastrian Reflections On the Early Islamic Centuries - Touraj Daryaee,
1998-01-01
Article

The Encyclopaedia of Islam - Gibb, H. A. R., 1960-2009

Book | s.v. Bihafarid, Sunbadh, Mukanna, Ustadhsis, Babak, ghuluww.
Shiism - Halm, Heinz, 1991
Book | Read especially chapters 3 & 4.

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Religious trends in early Islamic Iran - Madelung, Wilferd, 1988

Book

The nature of Iranian revolts in the early Abbasid period - F. Omar

Article

Political horoscopes concerning late ninth-century Alids - David Pingree and Wilferd
Madelung, Oct., 1977
Article

The early Ismaili missionaries in northwest Persia and in Khurasan and Transoxiana - S.
M. Stern
Article

Babak of Badhdh and al-Afshin - E. Wright

Article

The re-emergence of Iranian identity after conversion to Islam - E. Yarshater

Chapter

Messianic beliefs and imperial politics in medieval Islam: the `Abbasid caliphate in the
early ninth century - Ycesoy, Hayrettin, 2009
Book

Week Five: The Iranian Intermezzo: The Rise of Persian Dynasties (17
items)

The Heritage of Rulership in Early Islamic Iran and the Search for Dynastic Connections
with the Past - C. E. Bosworth
Article

The Tahirids and Persian Literature - C. E. Bosworth

Article

The interaction of Arabic and Persian literature in the 10th and early 11th centuries - C.
E. Bosworth
Article | Also available on MMS.
The history of the Saffarids of Sistan and the Maliks of Nimruz: 247/861 to 949/1542-3 Bosworth, Clifford Edmund, 1994
Book

Encyclopaedia Iranica - 1985Book | Search 'Dehqan'.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam - Gibb, H. A. R., 1960-2009
Book | s.v. 'Tahardis', 'Saffarids'.
The social significance of the shuubiyya - H.A.R. Gibb
Chapter

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Greek thought, Arab culture: the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghdad and
early `Abbasid society (2nd-4th/8th-10th c.) - Gutas, Dimitri, 1998
Book

The Barmakid revolution in Islamic government - H. Kennedy

Chapter | Also available on MMS.
The decline and fall of the first Muslim empire - H. Kennedy
Article | Also available on MMS.
The Shu'ubiyah Controversy and the Social History of Early Islamic Iran - Roy P.
Mottahedeh, Apr., 1976
Article | Also available on MMS.
Local historiography in early medieval Iran and the Tarikh-i Bayhaq - Parvaneh
Pourshariati
Article

The disintegration of the Caliphate in the east - B. Spuler

Chapter

The disintegration of the Caliphate in the east - B. Spuler

Chapter

Yaqub the Coppersmith and Persian National Sentiment - S.M. Stern

Chapter | Also available on MMS.
Historical Representations of Ya'qub b. al-Layth: A Reappraisal - D. G. Tor, Nov., 2002
Article

The Third Century Internal Crisis of the Abbasids - David Waines, Oct., 1977
Article

Week Six: The Samanid Dynasty and the Revival of the Persian
Language (19 items)
The rulers of Chaghanian in early Islamic times - C. E. Bosworth
Article

Epic of the Persian kings: the art of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh - Brend, Barbara, Melville, C. P.,
Fitzwilliam Museum, 2010
Book

The Shahnama: Between the Samanids and the Ghaznavids - Ghazzal Dabiri, 2010-02
Article | Also available on MMS.
Bukhara: the Medieval Achievement - Frye, Richard Nelson, 1965
Book

Iranian Identity - William Hanaway

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The rise of the new Persian language - G. Lazard

Chapter

The rise of the new Persian language - G. Lazard

Chapter

The older preface to the Shahnamah - V. Minorsky

Article | Also available on MMS.
Planning the Persian Language in the Samanid Period - Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari
Article

A Samanid work of counsel and commentary: the Nasihat al-muluk of pseudo-al-Mawardi

- Louise Marlow
Article

Persian historiography: to the end of the twelfth century - Meisami, Julie Scott, 1999
Book

Why write history in Persian? Historical writing in the Samanid period - J.S. Meisami
Chapter | Also available on MMS.
The Samanid state - N. Negmatov
Chapter

Mediaeval Islamic historiography and political legitimacy: Bal`ami's Tarikhnama - Peacock,

A.C.S., 2007
Book | Read Chapter 1 only. Available on MMS.
Linguistic shuubiyya and early neo-Persian prose" - Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Mar., 1974
Article

The Islamization of Central Asia in the Smnid era and the reshaping of the Muslim world*
- D. G. Tor, 2009-5-28
Article

Ibn Zafir al-Azdis account of the murder of the Samanid amir Ahmad b. Ismail and the
succession of his son, Nasr - L. Treadwell
Chapter | Available also on MMS.
The account of the Samanid dynasty in Ibn Zafir al-Azdis Akhbar al-duwal al-munqatia Luke Treadwell
Article

The Samanids: the first Islamic dynasty of Central Asia - L. Treadwell

Chapter | Also available on MMS.

Week Seven: The Buyids and the Sasanian Imperial Heritage (19 items)
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Military organisation under the Buyids of Persia and Iraq - C. E. Bosworth

Article | Also available on MMS.
The Last Buwayhids - Harold Bowen, Apr., 1929
Article

The Revival of Persian Kingship Under the Buyids - H. Busse

Chapter

The Cambridge history of Iran: Vol. 4: Period from the Arab invasion to the Saljuqs - Frye,
Richard Nelson, 2008
Book | Read Chapter by Busse.
The Cambridge history of Iran: Vol.4: The period from the Arab invasion to the Saljuqs Frye, Richard Nelson, 1975
Book | Read Chapter by Busse.
Three Buwayhid Inscriptions - John J. Donohue, Feb., 1973
Article

The Buwayhid dynasty in Iraq 334 H./945 to 403 H./1012: shaping institutions for the
future - Donohue, John J., 2003
Book

The Encyclopaedia of Islam - Gibb, H. A. R., 1960-2009

Book | Read s.v. Buyids, Ibn Raik, Mardawidj.
Encyclopaedia Iranica - 1985Book | Read s.v. Buyids.
Fatimid-Buyid diplomacy during the reign of Al-Aziz billah (365/975-386/996) - Shainool
Jiwa, 1992
Article | Also available on MMS.
The effects of the iqta (land-grant) system under the Buyids - M.S. Khan, 1984
Article | Also available on MMS.
Humanism in the Renaissance of Islam: the cultural revival during the Buyid age Kraemer, Joel L., 1986
Book

Abu Ishaq al-Sabi on the Alids of Tabaristan and Gilan - Wilferd Madelung, Jan., 1967
Article

The Buyid assumption of the title shahanshah - Wilferd Madelung, Apr., 1969
Article

Administration in Buyid Qazwin - R. Mottahedeh

Chapter

Loyalty and leadership in an early Islamic society - Mottahedeh, Roy P, 2001

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Amr-Malik-Shhnshh. Aud ad-Daulas titulature reexamined, - Lutz

Richter-Bernburg
Article | Also available on MMS.
Shahanshah and al-Malik al-Muayyad: the legitimation of power in Samanid and Buyid
Iran - W.L. Treadwell
Chapter | Also available on MMS.
The Pre-Buyid Amirate: Two Views from the past - David Waines, Jul., 1977
Article

Week Eight: Persianate culture among the Turks: the Ghaznavid and
Qarakhanid states (22 items)
Utbi and the Ghaznavids at the Foot of the Mountain - Ali Anooshahr, 2005-06
Article

The Ghazi sultans and the frontiers of Islam: a comparative study of the late medieval and
early modern periods - Anooshahr, Ali, 2009
Book | Read Chapters 3 - 5.
Ghaznavid military organisation - C.E. Bosworth, 1960/61
Article | Also available on MMS.
The Titulature of the Early Ghaznavids - C. E. Bosworth
Article

"A Turco-Mongol practice among the early Ghaznavids" Central Asiatic Journal 7 (1962) Available on MMS.
The Ghaznavids: their empire in Afghanistan and eastern Iran, 994 : 1040 - Bosworth,
Clifford Edmund, Runciman, Steven, 1963
Book

The Development of Persian Culture under the Early Ghaznavids - C. E. Bosworth

Article | Also available on MMS
An Oriental Samuel Pepys? Abu l-Fadl Bayhaqis memoirs of Court Life in Eastern Iran and
Afghanistan, 1030-1041 - C. Edmund Bosworth, Apr., 2004
Article | Also available on MMS
The eastern Islamic world, eleventh to eighteenth centuries - Morgan, David, Reid,
Anthony, 2011
Book | Read The steppe peoples in the Islamic world.
Local Politics in Eastern Iran under the Ghaznavids and Seljuks - Richard W. Bulliet
Article

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The Karakhanids - E.A. Davidovitch

Chapter

Encyclopaedia Iranica - 1985Book | Read on Bayhaqi, Abu l-Fazl (Gh. Yusofi).

The Karakhanids and early Islam - P. Golden
Chapter

The Karakhanids and early Islam - P. Golden

Chapter

Ghaznavid Panegyrics: Some Political Implications - Julie Scott Meisami

Article

Persian historiography: to the end of the twelfth century - Meisami, Julie Scott, 1999
Book | Read Chapter Two.
The life and times of Sultan Mamud of Ghazna - Muhammad Naim, 1971
Book

'Utb's al-Yamn: Patronage, Composition and Reception - Andrew Peacock, 2007-10-01

Article

The Mamluks of the Seljuks: Islams military might at the crossroads - David Ayalon, 1996
Article

The Ghaznavid and Seljuq Turks: poetry as a source for Iranian history - Tetley, Gillies,
2009
Book

The Mamluks in the military of the pre-Seljuq Persianate dynasties - D.G. Tor, 2008
Article

Waldman, M.R., Toward a Theory of Historical Narrative: a case study in Perso-Islamicate

Historiography, Ohio 1980 - available on Moodle.

Week Nine: The Seljuq invasions (21 items)

Barbarian incursions: the coming of the Turks into the Islamic world - C.E. Bosworth
Chapter

The origins of the Seljuqs - C.E. Bosworth

Chapter

The Cambridge history of Iran: Vol. 5: Saljuq and Mongol periods - Boyle, John Andrew,
c2008
Book | Read especially Chapter by Bosworth.

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Bulliet, R., "Numismatic evidence for the relationship between Tughril Beg and Chaghri
Beg" in Near Eastern Numismatics, Iconography, Epigraphy and History, ed. D.K.
Kouymjian, Beirut 1974 - available on MMS.
Cotton, climate, and camels in early Islamic Iran: a moment in world history - Bulliet,
Richard W., 2009
Book

The Turkish invasion: the Selchkids - C. Cahen

Chapter

The historiography of the Seljuqid period - C. Cahen

Chapter

The Malik-nama and the history of Seljuqid origins - C. Cahen

Chapter | Also available on MMS.
The Turkish tribes of western Asia during the Seljuqid period - C. Cahen
Chapter

Iranian elites and Turkish rulers: a history of Is.fahan in the Saljuq period - Durand-Gudy,
David, 2010
Book | Read Chapter 1 / Also available on MMS.
Turks in the Middle East before the Saljuqs - Richard N. Frye and Aydin M. Sayili, Sep.,
1943
Article

Some reflections on Seljuq historiography - C. Hillenbrand

Chapter

Turkish myth and muslim symbol: the battle of Manzikert - Hillenbrand, Carole, 2007
Book | (includes many sources in translation)
The Contribution of Archery to the Turkish Conquest of Anatolia - Walter Emil Kaegi, Jr.,
Jan., 1964
Article

Aspects of Saljuq-Ghuzz settlement in Persia - A. Lambton

Chapter

The Marriage of Tughril Beg - George Makdisi, Jul., 1970

Article

Persian historiography: to the end of the twelfth century - Meisami, Julie Scott, 1999
Book | Read Chapter 3.
The Seljuq conquest(s) of Nishapur: A reappraisal - Jrgen Paul, 2005-12
Article

Arslan Arghun: nomadic revival? - J. Paul

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Early Seljuq history: a new interpretation - Peacock, A. C. S., 2010

Book

Nomadic society and the Seljuq campains in Caucasia - Andrew C. S. Peacock

Article | Also available on MMS.

Week Ten: The Great Seljuq empire: politics and structures (18 items)
Of this world and the next: metaphors and meanings in the Qabus-namah - Soheila
Amirsoleimani
Article

The Mamluks of the Seljuks: Islams military might at the crossroads - David Ayalon,
Nov., 1996
Article

The empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian history: between China and the Islamic World Biran, Michal, 2005
Book

Towards a biography of Nizam al-Mulk: three sources from Ibn al-Adim - C.E. Bosworth
Chapter | Available on MMS.
The Cambridge history of Iran: Vol. 5: Saljuq and Mongol periods - Boyle, John Andrew,
2008
Book | Read Chapters by Lambton and Cahen.
Iranian elites and Turkish rulers: a history of Is.fahan in the Saljuq period - Durand-Gudy,
David, 2010
Book

Encyclopaedia Iranica - 1985Book | Read 'Sanjar' section on the online edition.

The Administration of Sanjar's Empire as Illustrated in the "'Atabat al-kataba" - Ann K. S.
Lambton
Article | Also available on MMS.
The dilemma of government in Islamic Persia: the Siyasatnama of Nizam al-Mulk - A. K.
S. Lambton
Article | Also available on MMS.
Continuity and change in medieval Persia: aspects of administrative, economic and social
history, 11th-14th century - Lambton, Ann K. S., 1988
Book

The Seljuqs: politics, society and culture - Christian Robert Lange, Songl Mecit (eds.),
2011

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The Seljuqs: politics, society and culture - Christian Robert Lange, Songl Mecit (eds.),
2011
Book

Ravandis report on the administrative changes of Muhammad Jahan Pahlavan - K.L.

Luther
Chapter

The collapse of the Great Saljuqs - J.S. Meisami

Chapter

The politics of knowledge in premodern Islam: negotiating ideology and religious inquiry Safi, Omid, 2006
Book

Kingship and legitimacy in Nizam al-Mulks Siyasatnama, fifth/eleventh century - M.

Simidchieva
Chapter | Also available on MMS.
Controlling and developing Baghdad: caliphs, sultans and the balance of power in the
Abbasid capital - V. Van Renterghem
Chapter | Also available on MMS.
Mirrors for Princes or a Hall of Mirrors? Niam al-Mulk's Siyar al-muluk Reconsidered Neguin Yavari, 2008-3-1
Article | Also available on MMS.

Week Eleven: Islam, society and the state, 11th-12th centuries (24 items)
The political-religious history of Nishapur in the eleventh century - R. Bulliet
Chapter | Also available on MMS.
The patricians of Nishapur: a study in medieval Islamic social history - Bulliet, Richard W.,
American Council of Learned Societies, 1972
Book

The patricians of Nishapur: a study in medieval Islamic social history - Bulliet, Richard W.,
1972
Book

Islam: the view from the edge - Bulliet, Richard W., 1994
Book

The Cambridge history of Iran: Vol. 5: Saljuq and Mongol periods - Boyle, John Andrew,
c2008
Book | Read chapter by Busani on Religion.
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| Read chapter by Busani on Religion.

In defence of Sunnism: al-Ghazali and the Seljuqs - M. Campanini

Chapter

. Historical conditions of Persian Sufism during the Seljuk period - H. Dabashi

Chapter

Hasan-i Sabbah and the origins of the Nizari Ismaili movement - F. Daftary
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The Isma`ilis - Daftary, Farhad, 1990
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The Encyclopaedia of Islam - Gibb, H. A. R., 1960-2009

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A learned society in a period of transition: the Sunni "ulama" of eleventh century Baghdad
- Ephrat, Daphna, c2000
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Putting the caliph in his place: power, authority, and the late Abbasid Caliphate - Hanne,
Eric J., 2007
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The power struggle between the Ismailis of Alamut and the Saljuqs 487-518/1094-1124:
The Saljuq perspective - C. Hillenbrand
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Sufism: the Formative Period - Karamustafa, Ahmet T., 2007

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Madelung, W. "The spread of Maturidism and the Turks" in idem, Religious Schools and
Sects in Medieval Islam, London 1985. - Available on MMS.
Muslim Institutions of Learning in Eleventh-Century Baghdad - George Makdisi
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The Sunni revival - G. Makdisi

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Sufi Organizations and Structures of Authority in Medieval Nishapur - Margaret Malamud,

Aug., 1994
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The Politics of Heresy in Medieval Khurasan: The Karramiyya in Nishapur - Margaret

Malamud
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al-Ghazali and the Ismailis: a debate on reason and authority in medieval Islam - Mitha,
Farouk, Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2001
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Early Seljuq history: a new interpretation - Peacock, A. C. S., 2010

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A tale of two murders: power relations between caliph and sultan in the twelfth century D. Tor, 2009
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Sovereign and pious: the religious life of the Great Seljuq sultans - D. Tor
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