The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia by D. G. Tor... - 9780268202095

The History and Culture of Iran and Central AsiaFrom the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic Period\nAuthor(s): D. G. Tor, Minoru Inaba\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268202095, 978-0268202095\nSynopsis\nThis volume examines the major cultural, religious, political, and urban changes that took place in the Iranian world of Inner and Central Asia in the transition from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic periods.\n\n One of the major civilizations of the first millennium was that of the Iranian linguistic and cultural world, which stretched from today's Iraq to what is now the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. No other region of the world underwent such radical transformation, which fundamentally altered the course of world history, as this area did during the centuries of transition from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period. This transformation included the religious victory of Islam over Buddhi.