Andrew Peacock (Terre Haute, Indiana, USA)

Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy

Bal'ami's Tarikhnamah

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

• Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780415583114
• ISBN-10: 041558311X
• Artikelnr.: 28529253

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