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.