Andrew Peacock

Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy

Bal'ami's Tarikhnamah

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780415400251
• ISBN-10: 0415400252
• Artikelnr.: 21680615

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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