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The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-96892-2. Spuler, Bertold (2003). Persian Historiography and Geography: Bertold Spuler on Major Works Produced in Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia, India and Early Ottoman Turkey. Translated by M. Ismail Marcinkowski, M. Ismail.
In a sense, Iranian Islam is a second advent of Islam itself, a new Islam sometimes referred to as Islam-i Ajam. It was this Persian Islam, rather than the original Arab Islam, that was brought to new areas and new peoples: to the Turks, first in Central Asia and then in the Middle East in the country which came to be called Turkey, and India.
In a sense, Iranian Islam is a second advent of Islam itself, a new Islam sometimes referred to as Islam-i Ajam. It was this Persian Islam, rather than the original Arab Islam, that was brought to new areas and new peoples: to the Turks, first in Central Asia and then in the Middle East in the country which came to be called Turkey, and of ...
In a sense, Iranian Islam is a second advent of Islam itself, a new Islam sometimes referred to as Islam-i Ajam. It was this Persian Islam, rather than the original Arab Islam, that was brought to new areas and new peoples: to the Turks, first in Central Asia and then in the Middle East in the country which came to be called Turkey, and of ...
Despite the fall of the Safavid government, the Afghans were unable to establish a permanent state, and especially undermine the dominance of Shia Islam in Iran. [29] Shia Islam continued to thrive in Iran as a distinctive, almost national belief system, even after more than thirty years of limited state backing.
The people of Larestan speak the Lari language, which is a southwestern Iranian language closely related to Old Persian (pre-Islamic Persian) and Luri. [53] Sunni Larestani Iranians migrated to the Arab states of the Persian Gulf in large numbers in the late 19th century. Some Sunni Emirati, Bahraini and Kuwaiti citizens are of Larestani ancestry.
History of Islamic Iran (Persian: تاریخ ایران اسلامی) is a four-volume book collection written by Rasul Jafarian in Persian language. In this collection, Jafarian writes the history of Iran from the advent of Islam to the decline of the Safavid Empire .
[2] [3] [4] Zoroastrianism was the official state religion of four pre-Islamic Persian empires, [5] the last being the Sassanian empire that passed a decree solidifying this in 224 CE. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] The Arab invasion abruptly brought to an end the religious domination of Zoroastrianism in Persia and instituted Islam as the official religion of ...