Khanbaghi - The Fire, the Star and the Cross

Khanbaghi, Aptin - The Fire, the Star and the Cross~Minority Religions in Medieval and Early Modern Iran

This book examines the cultural, economic, and political achievements of nom-Islamic peoples in Iran from the sixth through eighteenth centuries. Rather than the usual negative, persecution approach to examining non-Muslims, Khanbaghi analyzes "their sophistication, their religious tenacity and their economic and political endeavours in a Muslim society" that restricted them. He demonstrates how Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians in Iran--who all lived as minorities under Muslim rule and who resisted assimilation to Islam--survived and even flourished there.

163pp. + map, notes, appendix, bibliography, index


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