An innovative exploration of the local histories of the Persianate world and its preoccupation with identity, authority, and legitimacy.

Intriguing dreams, improbable myths, fanciful genealogies, and suspect etymologies. These were all key elements of the historical texts composed by scholars and

An innovative exploration of the local histories of the Persianate world and its preoccupation with identity, authority, and legitimacy.

How did Muslims of the classical Islamic period understand their past? What value did they attach to history? How did they write history? How did historiography

Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative analyzes how early Muslim historians merged the pre-Islamic histories of the Arab and Iranian peoples into