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Books > History > World history > General
Abu Sa'id 'Abd al-Hayy Gardizi was an author and historian
living in the mid-eleventh century at the height of the Turkish
Ghazvanid dynasty. His only known work, "The Ornament of Histories"
("Zayn al-akhbir"), is a hugely ambitious history of the Eastern
Islamic lands AD 650-1041, spanning what is now Eastern Iran,
Afghanistan and parts of the Central Asian Republics and
Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Gardizi's text is an extremely rare
source of primary information about the rise of Islamic faith,
culture and military dominance in these regions, and represents a
significant contribution to our understanding of the early Islamic
world. This is the first English translation of the original
Persian text, and is accompanied by an introduction and commentary
which details the historical, geographical and cultural
context.
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