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ajiss-964	Alavi, Samad	The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion By Sarah Bowen Savant (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 277pages.)	2015.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1847	51	32	Relying primarily on texts by Abu al-Shahykh al-Isfahani and Abu Nu‘aym al-Isfahani, Savant reveals how this later generation of biogra- phers depicted Isfahan as a center of Islamic civilization and ascribed special importance to the well-known Pleiades Hadith as evidence of the Persians’ leading role in Islamic history. Chapter 4, “Reforming Iranians’ Memories of Pre-Islamic Times,” con- siders three editorial strategies by which traditionists omitted or diminished knowledge of the Persians’ pre-Islamic past: (1) writers like al-Biruni, al- Ghazali, and Firdawsi rewrote the Persians’ universal histories as local accounts (e.g., one people’s version of the past), which undermined their authority by anthologizing them among groups or emphasizing their specificity to the Per- sians and their supersession by Islam; (2) erasing national or ethnic lines in pre-Islamic history.	cache/ajiss-964.pdf	txt/ajiss-964.txt