Table of Contents

1. Introduction (Adam Silverstein and Teresa Bernheimer)
2. A New Look At Mazdak (François de Blois)
3. Buddhism As Ancient Iranian Paganism (Patricia Crone)
4. Eastern Sources On The Roman And Persian War In The Near East 540–545 (Michael R. Jackson Bonner)
5. Collaborators And Dissidents: Christians In Sasanian Iraq In The Early Fifth Century CE (Philip Wood)
6. The Khurasan Corpus Of Arabic Documents (Geoffrey Khan)
7. The Late Sasanian Army (James Howard-Johnston)
8. Urban Militias In The Eastern Islamic World (Third–Fourth Centuries Ah/Ninth-Tenth Centuries CE) (Luke Treadwell)
9. The Long Shadow Of Pre-Islamic Iranian Rulership: Antagonism Or Assimilation? (D. G. Tor)

About the Author

Teresa Bernheimer is Senior Lecturer in the History of the Near and Middle East at SOAS, University of London. She is co-editor of Late Antiquity: Eastern Perspectives (2012) and Early Islamic History. Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies (2014).