Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy : Bal'ami's Tarikhnamah (Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey)

Peacock, Andrew

Routledge（2007/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415400251
• DDC分類 907.2

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007.

Full Description

The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural document and why it became such an influential work in the Islamic world.

Contents

Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction 1. Politics, religion and culture in the late Samanid state 2. The transmission of the Tarikhnama's text 3. Bal'ami's reshaping of Tabari's History 4. The contents and purpose of Bal'ami's alterations to Tabari's History 5. The Tarikhnama after Bal'ami 6. General conclusions. Appendix I: Comparison of postulated redactions of the Tarikhnama. Appendix II: Comparison of the Arabic translation of the Tarikhnama and the Persian text. Appendix III: Addenda and corrigenda to Daniel's 'Annotated Inventory of Bal'ami' Manuscripts'. Bibliography