The Iranian Reception of Islam

The Non-Traditionalist Strands

The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands (Brill, 2016) by Patricia Crone, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, is part of the author's Collected Studies in Three Volumes, a compilation of a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history. The present volume examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam, above all that of the Iranians.