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Deborah Tor

PhD

Sample Publications

Books:

Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry, and the 'Ayyar Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World; 

D.G. Tor and Minoru Inaba, eds., The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia in the First Millennium AD: From the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic Period; 

A.C.S. Peacock and D.G. Tor, eds., Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation

Articles: 

▪       “The Religious History of the Seljuq Period,” in Sheila Canby, Deniz Beyazit, and Martina Rugiadi, eds. The Seljuqs and their Successors: Art, Culture and History (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 53-71.

▪       “The Parting of Ways Between ʿAlid Shiʿism and ʿAbbāsid Shiʿism: An Analysis of the Missives between the Caliph al-Manṣūr and Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya,” Journal of ʿAbbāsid Studies 6:2 (2019), 209-227.

▪       “The Eclipse of Khurasan in the Twelfth Century,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 81:2 (2018), 251-76. 

▪       “The Political Revival of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate: Al-Muqtafī and the Seljuqs,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 137:2 (2017), 301-14.

▪        “Rayy and The Religious History of the Seljuq Period,” Der Islam 93:2 (2016), 377-405.

▪        “The Importance of Khurāsān and Transoxiana in the Classical Islamic World,” in A.C.S. Peacock and D.G. Tor, eds., Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation. British Institute of Persian Studies Series (London: I. B. Tauris, 2015), 1-12.

▪       “God’s Cleric: Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ and the Transition from Caliphal to Prophetic Sunna,” in Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts: Essays in Honor of Professor Patricia Crone, ed. Behnam Sadeghi, Asad Q. Ahmed, Adam Silverstein, and Robert Hoyland (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 195-228.

▪       “The Long Shadow of Pre-Islamic Iranian Rulership: Antagonism or Assimilation?” Late Antiquity: Eastern Perspectives, ed. Teresa Bernheimer and Adam Silverstein, E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series (Oxford: Oxbow, 2012), 145-163.

▪       “The Islamising of Iranian Kingly Ideals in the Persianate Fürstenspiegel,Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies 49 (2011), 15-22.

▪      “Mamlūk Loyalty: Evidence from the Late Saljūq Period,” Asiatische Studien 65: 3 (2011), 767-796.

▪       “'Sovereign and Pious': The Religious Life of the Great Seljuq Sultans,” The Seljuqs: Politics, Society, and Culture, ed. Christian Lange and Songul Mecit (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), 39-62.

▪       “A Tale of Two Murders: Power Relations Between Caliph and Sultan in the Twelfth Century,“ Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG) 159 (2009), 279-297.

▪       “The Islamization of Central Asia in the Sāmānid Era and the Reshaping of the Muslim World,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (BSOAS), 72:2 (2009), 272-299.

▪       “The Mamlūks in the Military of the Pre-Seljūq Persianate Dynasties,Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 46 (2008), 213-225. 

▪       “Privatized Jihad and Public Order in the Pre-Saljūq Period: The Role of theMutaṭṭawwiʿa,” Iranian Studies 38:4 (2005), 555-573.

▪       “Historical Representations of Ya‘qūb b. al-Layth al-Ṣaffār: A Reappraisal,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JRAS), 12: 3 (Nov. 2002), 247-275.

▪       “A Numismatic History of the First Saffarid Dynasty,” Numismatic Chronicle, Series 7, 162 (2002), 293-314.

Current Position

Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame