Latin siege warfare in the twelfth century
Editorial COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS
- ISBN13 9780231106849
- ISBN10 023110684X
- Type BOOK
- Pages 292
- Published 1996
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
Medieval Universal HistoryLatin siege warfare in the twelfth century
Editorial COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book details
Conflict and Cooperation explores the consequences of the meeting of two important religious communities - Zoroastrians and Muslims. This book examines patterns of communal behavior during the seventh to thirteenth centuries A.D. and suggests how both groups were radically transformed, ultimately reshaping Iranian society. The spread of Islam, the success of Muslim institutions, and the gradual decline of Zoroastrianism are viewed in the light of politics, literature, religion, and socioeconomics. Although Zoroastrians and Muslims lived within a shared region and jointly contributed significantly to Iranian culture, they have been studied together only marginally in the past. This absorbing, informative book offers powerful new insights into the tensions and transitions of a medieval society and has important implications for current societies facing conflicts of religion and ethnicity.