Mediaeval Islamic historiography and political legitimacy : Balʻamī's Tārīkhnāma /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Peacock, A. C. S. (Andrew C. S.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Series:	Routledge studies in the history of Iran and Turkey.
Subjects:	Balʻamī, Abū ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, > active 946-973. > Tārīkhnāmah-ʼi Ṭabarī. Ṭabarī, > 838?-923. > Tārīkh al-rusul wa-al-mulūk. Islamic Empire > History > Historiography.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Politics, religion and culture in the late Sāmānid state
The transmission of the Tārīkhnāma's text
Balʻamī's reshaping of Ṭabarī's history
The contents and purpose of Balʻamī's alterations to Ṭabarī's History
The Tārīkhnāma after Balʻamī
General conclusions
Comparison of postulated redactions of the Tārīkhnāma
Comparison of the Arabic translation of the Tārīkhnāma and the Persian text
Addenda and corrigenda to Daniel's "An annotated inventory of Balʻamī's manuscripts"
Bibliography
Subject index
Manuscript index.