This volume of al-Tabari's History has a particularly wide sweep
and interest. It provides the most complete and detailed historical
source for the Persian empire of the Sasanids, whose four centuries
of rule were one of the most glorious periods in Persia's long
history. It also gives information on the pre-Islamic Arabs of the
Mesopotamian desert fringes and eastern Arabia (in al-Hira and the
Ghassanid kingdom), and on the quite separate civilization of South
Arabia, the Yemen, otherwise known mainly by inscriptions. It
furnishes details of the centuries'-long warfare of the two great
empires of Western Asia, the Sasanids and the Byzantine Greeks, a
titanic struggle which paved the way for the for the subsequent
rise of the new faith of Islam. The volume is thus of great value
for scholars, from Byzantinists to Semitists and Iranists. It
provides the first English translation of this key section of
al-Tabari's work, one for which non-Arabists have hitherto relied
on a partial German translation meritorious forms time but now 120
years old. This new translation is enriched by a detailed
commentary which takes into account up-to-date scholarship.
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