ENCYCLOPÆDIA IRANICA, an alphabetically arranged reference work which seeks to provide scholarly articles relating to “all aspects of Iranian life…

In the Taherid and Samanid periods, Khorasan became virtually synonymous with the Mašreq or “Islamic East,” stretching from Ray far into Central…

The revolution that overthrew Omayyad rule and led to the establishment of the ʿAbbasid caliphate was incubated in Khorasan, and…

HISTORIOGRAPHY i. INTRODUCTION Historiography, literally, is the study not of history but of the writing of history. In modern usage,…

ʿARAB iii. Arab Settlements in Iran Arab settlements in Iran proliferated after the wars of conquest that destroyed the Sasanian…

TAHERIDS (Pers. Āl-e Ṭāher), name of a prominent family of the early Abbasid period and more particularly a line of…

ṬABARI, ABU JAʿFAR MOḤAMMAD B. JARIR (224-310/839-923), one of the most eminent Iranian scholars of the early Abbasid era, author…

KETĀB AL-FOTUḤ (or Taʾriḵ al-fotuḥ), an important early Arabic historical text by Ebn Aʿṯam Kufi (d. 314/926?), which was translated,…

CONVERSION ii. Of Iranians to Islam Iranians were among the very earliest converts to Islam, and their conversion in significant…

ENCYCLOPAEDIAOF ISLAM, a reference work of fundamental importance on topics dealing, according to its self-description, with “the geography, ethnography and…

HISTORIOGRAPHY iii. EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD Introduction. It might well be questioned whether there is, strictly speaking, any “historiography of Persia…

GOLESTĀN TREATY (Treaty of Gulistan), agreement arranged under British auspices to end the Russo-Persian War of 1218-28/1804-13 (Figure 1). The…