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FRYE, Richard was born on January 10, 1920 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of Nels Frye and Lillie Hagman.
(The civilization of ancient Persia was among the most spl...)
The civilization of ancient Persia was among the most splendid, powerful and long lasting of the great historical cultures. But our knowledge of it is all too often confined to a few masterpieces of early Persian art and the Persians' role of Goliath to the Greeks' David. 'The Heritage of Persia' is based on a firsthand study of the sources - archaeological, documentary and linguistic - and provides a scholarly, readable and absorbing account of 2,500 years of Persian [Iranian] history and culture. The author has included in his survey all those lands, inside and outside the borders of modern Iran (Persia), which were Iranian in speech and culture. His story starts with the arrival of the Aryans in the 2nd millennium BC, and follows the fates of the successive dynasties - the Achaemenids, who ruled most of the civilized world, the Seleucides, heirs of Alexander the Great, the Parthians, and the Sasanians, who vied with Rome for control of the ancient world. He concludes with the Arab invasion of Persia in the 7th century AD, the triumph of Islam in the 10th century AD, and the Persian [Iranian[ renaissance that followed.
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(The principle city in an oasis in the desert, Bukhara was...)
The principle city in an oasis in the desert, Bukhara was conquered by the Arab invaders in 674. But it was under the Persian Samanid dynasty that the city reached its height. Its agrarian economy provided products for the caravans which extended its sphere of trade. The political and religious interests of the people were guided by a well-organized bureaucracy. Poetry, music, architecture, and calligraphy flourished. Today Bukhara is in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
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The definitive history of the birth and development of the great age of Iranian civilization by the world authority on ancient Persian culture. "This book is excellently written and well-organized to present a sound but reflectively new study of Islam's penetration...into Iran."--Peter Avery, The Middle East Journal.
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A study of the heritage of Central Asia. It brings together such distinct elements as the world of Zoroaster, the Achaemenid ecumene, the Sakas and later waves of nomadic invaders, the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Road, the historic role of the Turks, and more.
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The Babylonian Talmud was compiled in the third through sixth centuries CE, by rabbis living under Sasanian Persian rule in the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. What kind of society did these rabbis inhabit? What effect did that society have on important rabbinic texts? In this book Richard Kalmin offers a thorough reexamination of rabbinic culture of late antique Babylonia. He shows how this culture was shaped in part by Persia on the one hand, and by Roman Palestine on the other. The mid fourth century CE in Jewish Babylonia was a period of particularly intense "Palestinianization," at the same time that the Mesopotamian and east Persian Christian communities were undergoing a period of intense "Syrianization." Kalmin argues that these closely related processes were accelerated by third-century Persian conquests deep into Roman territory, which resulted in the resettlement of thousands of Christian and Jewish inhabitants of the eastern Roman provinces in Persian Mesopotamia, eastern Syria, and western Persia, profoundly altering the cultural landscape for centuries to come. Kalmin also offers new interpretations of several fascinating rabbinic texts of late antiquity. He shows how they have often been misunderstood by historians who lack attentiveness to the role of anonymous editors in glossing or emending earlier texts and who insist on attributing these texts to sixth century editors rather than to storytellers and editors of earlier centuries who introduced changes into the texts they learned and transmitted. He also demonstrates how Babylonian rabbis interacted with the non-rabbinic Jewish world, often in the form of the incorporation of centuries-old non-rabbinic Jewish texts into the developing Talmud, rather than via the encounter with actual non-rabbinic Jews in the streets and marketplaces of Babylonia. Most of these texts were "domesticated" prior to their inclusion in the Babylonian Talmud, which was generally accomplished by means of the rabbinization of the non-rabbinic texts. Rabbis transformed a story's protagonists into rabbis rather than kings or priests, or portrayed them studying Torah rather than engaging in other activities, since Torah study was viewed by them as the most important, perhaps the only important, human activity. Kalmin's arguments shed new light on rabbinic Judaism in late antique society. This book will be invaluable to any student or scholar of this period.
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( The definitive history of the birth and development of ...)
The definitive history of the birth and development of the great age of Iranian civilization by the world authority on ancient Persian culture. "This book is excellently written and well-organized to present a sound but reflectively new study of Islam's penetration...into Iran."--Peter Avery, The Middle East Journal.
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FRYE, Richard was born on January 10, 1920 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of Nels Frye and Lillie Hagman.
Bachelor of Arts Illinois, 1939. AM, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1940. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1946.
Postgraduate, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1941. Postgraduate, School Oriental Studies, London, 1947. Doctorate (honorary), University Tajikistan, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1991.
Executive secretary Near East committee American Council Learned Societies, 1948-1950. Assistant professor Middle East studies Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1949-1953, associate professor, 1953-1957, professor Iranian studies, 1957-1990. Visiting professor Franfurt University, 1958-1959, Hamburg University, 1968-1969.
Visiting lecturer Iranian archaeology Hermitage Museum, 1966-1967, Tajikistan University, 1990-1991. Consultant and lecturer in field.
(The Babylonian Talmud was compiled in the third through s...)
( The definitive history of the birth and development of ...)
( The definitive history of the birth and development of ...)
(The civilization of ancient Persia was among the most spl...)
(The principle city in an oasis in the desert, Bukhara was...)
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(English introduction with reproduction of original Arabic...)
(A study of the heritage of Central Asia. It brings togeth...)
(Heritage of Persia)
Author: Iran, 1953, History of Bukhara, 1954, Heritage of Persia, 1963, The Histories of Nishapur, 1965, Excavations of Qasr-i Abu Nasr, 1973, Bukhara, the Medieval Achievement, 1965, Persia, 1968, Middle Iranian Inscriptions from Dura Europas, 1968, The Golden Age of Persia, 1975, The Ancient History of Iran, 1983, The Heritage of Central Asia, 1996. Assistant editor Speculum, 1950-1960. Member editorial board Central Asian Journal, 1960-1972, Indo-Iranica, 1965-1974.
Editor: Volunteer 4, Cambridge History of Iran, 1975, Bulletin and Monograph series Asia Institute, 1969-1974, since 1986. Contributor articles to professional journals.
Director, Asia Institute, Pahlavi University, Iran, 1969-1975. Fellow Academy of Sciences Tajikistan Republic. Member American Orient Society (vice president 1966), National Association Armenian Studies and Research (founder), Iranian Studies.
Married 1st Barbara York in 1948 (divorced in 1973), two son one daughter. Married 2nd Eden Naby in 1975, one son.