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Article: The Persian Presence in the Islamic World.(Review)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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The Persian Presence in the Islamic World. Edited by Richard G. Hovannisian and Georges Sabbagh. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 267. $64.95.)
The result of a biennial conference at UCLA to award the Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal in Islamic Studies, The Persian Presence in the Islamic World is a useful collection of essays on the important subject of the role of Persian culture in the elaboration of Islamic civilization. The lead essay is by Ehsan Yarshater, the thirteenth Levi Della Vida medallist, who is an eminent Iranian scholar of classical Islamic civilization. In his judicious and magisterial survey of the Persian presence in the Islamic ...