Series | Eurasian Studies
Volume 9 | Monograph | The New Day of the Empire
The New Day of the Empire
The Solar New Year of the Abbasid Caliphs
open access | peer reviewed- Massimiliano Borroni - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
Abstract
This book traces the history of the nawrūz in the Abbasid period (c. 750-1050), as it results from the study of the literary sources published in Arabic produced during the three golden centuries of the caliphate's history. It is a work based on the historical contextualisation of the numerous reports on what was a genuine caliphal New Year's of Iranian origin. The Abbasid nawrūz is studied here in the context of the courts and good society of the time, as a cornerstone of the fiscal calendar and, finally, as a popular celebration, particularly in the Mesopotamian regions.
Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-159-1/EUR-9 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-159-1 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-207-9 | Published Dec. 20, 2017 | Language it
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