Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʻan al-bašar. Persia and its kings, part I / Vol. V, section 4 :
Al-Maqrizi's (d. 845/1442) last work, al-Habar 'an al-baSar, was completed a year before his death. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of pre-Islamic Iran from the Creation to the Parthians. Al-Maqrizi's work shows how Arab historians integrated Iran into...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Arabic |
| Language Notes: | In English and Arabic. |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
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| Series: | Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442. Works.
v. 5. |
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| Summary: | Al-Maqrizi's (d. 845/1442) last work, al-Habar 'an al-baSar, was completed a year before his death. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of pre-Islamic Iran from the Creation to the Parthians. Al-Maqrizi's work shows how Arab historians integrated Iran into world history and how they harmonized various currents of historiography (Middle Persian historiography, Islamic sacred history, Greek and Latin historiography). Among al-Habar's sources is KitAb HurUSiyUS, the Arabic translation of Paulus Orosius' Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII. This source has only been preserved in one defective copy, and al-Maqrizi's text helps to fill in some of its lacunae. |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the Arabic. |
| Physical Description: | vi, 511 pages : facsimiles ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004355538 9004355537 |