TY - BOOK AU - Frye,Richard Nelson TI - The period from the Arab invasion to the Saljuqs T2 - The Cambridge history of Iran SN - 9780521200936 : AV - DS272 .C34 1975 PY - 1975/// CY - Cambridge PB - University Press KW - Art objects KW - Iran KW - Islam KW - History KW - 640-1500 KW - Religion KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Civilization N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 667-697) and index; The Arab conquest of Iran and its aftermath / Abd al-Husain Zarrinkub -- The Abbasid Caliphate in Iran / Roy Mottahedeh -- The Tahirids and Saffarids / R.N. Frye -- The Samanids / R.N. Frye -- The early Ghaznavids / C.B. Bosworth -- The minor dynasties of Northern Iran / W. Madelung -- Iran under the Buyids / Heribert Busse -- Tribes, cities, and social organization / Claude Cahen -- The visual arts / Oleg Grabar -- Numismatics / G.C. Miles -- The exact sciences / E.S. Kennedy -- The life sciences, alchemy and medicine / S.H. Nasr -- Philosophy and cosmology / S.H. Nasr -- Sufism / S.H. Nasr -- The religious sciences / S.H. Nasr and M. Mutahhari -- Sects and heresies / B.S. Amoretti -- Nasir-I Khusrau and Iranian Ismailism / Henry Corbin -- Zoroastrian literature after the Muslim conquest / J. de Menasce -- Arabic literature in Iran / Victor Danner -- The rise of the new Persian language / G. Lazard -- The Rubai in early Persian literature / L.P. Elwell-Sutton -- Umar Khayyam: astronomer, mathematician, and poet / J.A. Boyle ER -