Peacock, A. C. S.

Mediaeval Islamic historiography and political legitimacy : Balʻamī's Tārīkhnāma / A.C.S Peacock. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2007. - xiii, 210 p. ; 25 cm. - Routledge studies in the history of Iran and Turkey .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-202) and indexes.

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.

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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.

DS38.2 / .T325173 2007

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