The Iranian Expanse

《The Iranian Expanse》是2018年13月1日University of California Press出版的圖書，作者是Matthew P. Canepa。

基本介紹

• 中文名：The Iranian Expanse
• 作者：Matthew P. Canepa
• 出版社：University of California Press
• ISBN：9780520290037

內容簡介

The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in Persia and the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment to form and contest Iranian cultural memory, royal identity, and sacred cosmologies. Investigating over a thousand years of history, from the Achaemenid period to the arrival of Islam, The Iranian Expanse argues that Iranian identities were built and shaped not by royal discourse alone, but by strategic changes to Western Asia’s cities, sanctuaries, palaces, and landscapes. The Iranian Expanse critically examines the construction of a new Iranian royal identity and empire, which subsumed and subordinated all previous traditions, including those of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Anatolia. It then delves into the startling innovations that emerged after Alexander under the Seleucids, Arsacids, Kushans, Sasanians, and the Perso-Macedonian dynasties of Anatolia and the Caucasus, a previously understudied and misunderstood period. Matthew P. Canepa elucidates the many ruptures and renovations that produced a new royal culture that deeply influenced not only early Islam, but also the wider Persianate world of the Il-Khans, Safavids, Timurids, Ottomans, and Mughals.

圖書目錄

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

1 Introduction: Conceptualizing Iran and Building Iranian Empires

PART ONE Ordering the Earth

2 Building the First Persian Empire

3 The Destruction of Achaemenid Persia and the Creation of Seleucid Iran

4 The Rise of the Arsacids and a New Iranian Topography of Power

5 Rival Visions and New Royal Identities in Post-Achaemenid Anatolia and the Caucasus

6 Sasanian Rupture and Renovation

PART TWO Sacred Spaces

7 Persian Religion and Achaemenid Sacred Spaces

8 The Seleucid Transformation of Iranian Sacred Spaces

9 Ancient Sacred Landscapes and Memories of Persian Religion in Anatolia and the Caucasus

PART THREE Landscapes of Time and Memory

10 Iranian Funerary Landscapes

11 Dynastic Sanctuaries

12 Sasanian Memory and the Persian Monumental and Ritual Legacy

13 Reshaping Iran's Past and Building Its Future

PART FOUR Palace and Paradise

14 Persian Palatial Cosmologies

15 The Seleucid and Arsacid Transformations of Iranian Palatial Architecture

16 The Palace of the Lord of the Sevenfold World

17 Earthly Paradises

Epilogue

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX