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The History of the Kings of the Persians in Three Arabic Chronicles - The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam (Paperback)
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The History of the Kings of the Persians in Three Arabic Chronicles - The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam (Paperback)
Series: Translated Texts for Historians, 69
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Total price: R889
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This book translates the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three
Muslim Arabic chronicles, those of Ahmad al-Ya'qubi (d. ca. 910),
'Ali al-Mas'udi (d. ca. 960) and Hamza al-Isfahani (d. ca. 960s).
Their accounts, like those of many other Muslim historians on this
topic, draw on texts that were composed in the period 750-850
bearing the title 'The History of the Kings of the Persians'. These
works served a growing audience of well-to-do Muslim bureaucrats
and scholars of Persian ancestry, who were interested in their
heritage and wished to make it part of the historical outlook of
the new civilization that was emerging in the Middle East, namely
Islamic civilization. This book explores the question of how
knowledge about ancient Iran was transmitted to Muslim historians,
in what forms it circulated and how it was shaped and refashioned
for the new Perso-Muslim elite that served the early Abbasid
caliphs in Baghdad, a city that was built only a short distance
away from the old Persian capital of Seleucia-Ctesiphon.
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