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SUMMARY:Ancient Iran in Muslim Eyes
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DESCRIPTION:Note: We are now fully booked for this event and are only 
 accepting names for the wait-list. Medieval Muslim historians wishing 
 to write about ancient Iran drew on texts that were composed in the pe
 riod 750–850 bearing the title "The History of the Kings of the Pers
 ians." These works served a growing audience of well­-to­do Muslim b
 ureaucrats and scholars of Persian ancestry who were interested in the
 ir heritage and wished to make it part of the historical outlook of th
 e new civilization that was emerging in the Middle East\, namely Islam
 ic civilization. This talk (and the book that it is based on) explores
  the question of how knowledge about ancient Iran was transmitted to M
 uslim historians\, in what forms it circulated and how it was shaped a
 nd refashioned for the new Perso­-Muslim elite that served the early 
 Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad\, a city that was built only a short distan
 ce away from the old Persian and Hellenistic capital of Seleucia­-Cte
 siphon.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
CONTACT:isaw@nyu.edu
CLASS:PUBLIC
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