Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy - Bal''ami''s Tarikhnamah

Informationen zum Autor Dr Andrew Peacock was educated at Oxford and Cambridge, and is a research associate at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in history of Anatolia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and is the author of several articles on aspects of mediaeval Islamic history and historiography. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Using newly discovered manuscripts, this study sheds much new light not just on mediaeval Islamic history and the development of Islamic historiography but also on manuscripts and the transmission of their texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: A C S Peacock, Andrew Peacock, Andrew (Terre Haute Peacock, Peacock Andrew
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.02.2007
• EAN: 9780415400251
• ISBN: 978-0-415-40025-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Middle East / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Middle East, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Middle Eastern history, Regional / International studies, Literature: history and criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval