Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Iranian or Persian? The religious landscape of Iranian identity
- 1 The macrohistorical pursuit of secret Persia and the Sufi myth-history
- 2 From Mithra to Zarathushtra
- 3 The Gathas and Mithra
- 4 Mithraism and the parallels of Sufism
- 5 The resurgence of “Persianate” identity in the transmission and fusion of ancient Iranian ideas within Islam
- 6 From late antiquity to neo-Mazdakism
- 7 Later antiquity: Mazdak and the Sasanian crisis
- 8 Between late antiquity and Islam: The case of Salman the Persian and Waraqa (the Christian scribe)
- 9 The end of the journey: Persian Sufism
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Index
Contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Iranian or Persian? The religious landscape of Iranian identity
- 1 The macrohistorical pursuit of secret Persia and the Sufi myth-history
- 2 From Mithra to Zarathushtra
- 3 The Gathas and Mithra
- 4 Mithraism and the parallels of Sufism
- 5 The resurgence of “Persianate” identity in the transmission and fusion of ancient Iranian ideas within Islam
- 6 From late antiquity to neo-Mazdakism
- 7 Later antiquity: Mazdak and the Sasanian crisis
- 8 Between late antiquity and Islam: The case of Salman the Persian and Waraqa (the Christian scribe)
- 9 The end of the journey: Persian Sufism
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Sufism in the Secret History of Persia , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2013