Persia and its kings

Author(s)

• Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī
• Hämeen-Anttila, Jaakko

Bibliographic Information

Persia and its kings

edited and translated by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila

（Bibliotheca Maqriziana, opera maiora ; v. 5 . Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʻan al-bašar ; v. 5, section 4）

Brill, c2018

• pt. 1 : hardback

Note

Bibliography: p. [357]-368

Includes indexes

"Opera Maiora"--on added t.p.

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Now available in Open Access thanks to support of the University of Helsinki. Al-Maqrizi's (d. 845/1442) last work, al-H abar 'an al-basar, was completed a year before his death. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hameen-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-H abar'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.

Table of Contents

List of Plates Abbreviations Foreword Preface Introduction 1 al-Maqrizi and the Habar 2 The Pre-Islamic History of Iran in Arabic and Persian Sources 3 al-Maqrizi's Sources 4 al-Maqrizi and Orosius 5 al-Maqrizi's Use of Sources 6 Description of the Manuscripts 7 Notes on the Translation 8 Names Plates Abbreviations and Symbols Critical Edition and Translation of al-Maqrizi's al-Habar 'an al-basar, vol. V, section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part I Persia and the Four Classes of Its Kings The First Class, the Pisdadians Mention of the Second Class of Persians, the Kayanids The Third Class of Persian (kings), the Asganians Bibliography List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Qur'anic Verses Index of Prophetic Traditions Index of Verses Index of Names (People and Places) Index of Quoted Titles in al-Habar 'an al-basar Index of Sources in al-Habar 'an al-basar Index of Glosses Index of Technical Terms Facsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Suleymaniye Kutuphanesi), fols. 76b-127b, 47*a-b, 128a-131a

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Details

• NCID: BB25345783
• ISBN:
  • 9789004355538
• LCCN: 2017050597
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engara
• Original Language Code: ara
• Place of Publication: Boston
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 511 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB17743667