Authority and Identity in Medieval Islamic Historiography : Persian Histories from the Peripheries (Hardcover)

1. Introduction; 2. Methodologies for reading hybrid identities and imagined histories; 3. Contexts and authorship; 4. Dreaming of the prophet; 5. Holy bloodlines, prophetic utterances, and taxonomies of belonging; 6. Living virtues of the land; 7. Sacred bodies and sanctified cities; 8. Prophetic etymologies and sacred spaces; 9. The view from Anatolia; 10. Lessons from the peripheries.