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Mesopotamia, Iran and Arabia from the Seleucids to the Sasanians (Variorum Collected Studies)

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This volume specializes in the period between the conquest of the Achaemenid empire by Alexander the Great and the advent of Islam, dominated within the central regions of the Near East by the Seleucid, the Parthian and the in spite of everything the Sasanian dynasties. Historiographically speaking, these periods have traditionally been dealt with by specialists in Classical archaeology, ancient history and late Antiquity. Much of the sense wherein these periods represented a continuation of ancient Near Eastern traditions has thereby been lost. Many specialists within the ‘late’ periods have little awareness of scholarship on the exact same regions and issues as dealt with by generations of scholars for the pre-Hellenistic Near East, even as many students of the in advance periods fail to spot that the processes and problems specific to the post-Hellenistic, pre-Islamic period within the region form part and parcel of the greater story of the ancient Near East through time. Brought together here are studies at the historical geography of Kerman and Khuzestan within the Seleucid period; the Greek and Parthian presence in Babylonia; popular religion and burial practice in Iran, Mesopotamia, and Arabia and the extent to which these do or do not reflect Zoroastrian orthodoxy; Roman, Parthian, Characene and Sasanian political influence, and its archaeological and iconographic manifestation, within the Arabian peninsula; and Nestorian Christianity in eastern Arabia. These studies demonstrate how extraordinarily wealthy a field exists for the further investigation of Mesopotamia, Iran and Arabia within the later pre-Islamic era.

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