Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands

Patricia Crone (1945-2015), Ph.D. (1974), School of Oriental and African Studies, was Professor Emerita at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her numerous publications include Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam (1987); Pre-Industrial Societies (1989); Medieval Islamic Political Thought (2004); and The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran (2012). Hanna Siurua (BA, School of Oriental and African Studies; MA, University of Sussex) is a professional editor based in Chicago. She specialises in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies and has edited numerous books and articles in these as well as other fields.

• Editor’s prefaceAuthor’s preface1. Kavād’s heresy and Mazdak’s revolt2. Zoroastrian communism3. Khurramīs4. Muqannaʿ5. Abū Tammām on the Mubayyiḍa6. The Muqannaʿ narrative in the Tārīkhnāma: Part I, Introduction, edition and translation7. The Muqannaʿ narrative in the Tārīkhnāma: Part II, Commentary and analysis8. Al-Jāḥiẓ on aṣḥāb al-jahālāt and the Jahmiyya9. Buddhism as ancient Iranian paganism10. A new text on Ismailism at the Samanid court11. What was al-Fārābī’s ‘imamic’ constitution?12. Al-Fārābī’s imperfect constitutions13. Pre-existence in Iran: Zoroastrians, ex-Christian Muʿtazilites, and Jews on the human acquisition of bodiesList of Patricia Crone’s publicationsIndex to volume 2