Khwadāynāmag : the Middle Persian Book of kings
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Khwadāynāmag : the Middle Persian Book of kings
（Studies in Persian cultural history / editors, Charles Melville, Gabrielle van den Berg, Sunil Sharma, v. 14）
Brill, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-269) and indexes
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Description
Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. Khwadaynamag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings by Jaakko Hameen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, drawing on a large number of Middle Persian, Greek, Arabic, and Classical Persian sources.
The Khwadaynamag is often conceived of as a large book of stories, comparable to Firdawsi's Shahname, but Hameen-Anttila convincingly shows that it was a concise and dry chronicle. He also studies the lost Arabic translations of the book, which turn out to be fewer than hitherto thought, as well as the sources of Firdawsi's Shahname, showing that the latter was only remotely related to the Khwadaynamag. It also becomes clear that there were no separate "priestly" and "royal" Khwadaynamags.
Table of Contents
Preface
1 The Khwadaynamag and Its Context
1.1 Preliminary Issues
1.2 Middle Persian Historical Material
1.3 Early Sources in Other Languages
1.4 Oral Tradition
2 Transmitting Materials over a Linguistic Border
2.1 The Translation Movement and Its Context
2.2 Translations of Middle Persian Texts
2.3 The Alexander Romance
2.4 Translation in the First Millennium
3 Arabic Translations of the Khwadaynamag
3.1 The List of H amza
3.2 Translators and Their Translations
3.3 Musa ibn 'Isa al-Kisrawi
3.4 Ibn al-Muqaffa' and Nihayat al-arab
3.5 Sources and Nature of These Translations
3.6 Pre-Islamic Iran in Early Arabic and Persian Historical Texts
3.7 The Contents of Ibn al-Muqaffa''s Translation
4 Classical Persian Shahnames
4.1 The Other Shahnames
4.2 The Prose Shahname
4.3 Bal'ami
4.4 Al-Tha'alibi
4.5 Firdawsi
4.6 Firdawsi, al-Tha'alibi, and Pahlavi Texts
4.7 Name Literature
5 Two Case Studies
5.1 Rustam in Arabic and Persian Literature
5.2 Armayil and Garmayil: The Formation of an Episode in Firdawsi's Shahname
6 Back to the Khwadaynamag
6.1 One Khwadaynamag. Or Many?
6.2 The Contents, Size, Sources, and Date of the Khwadaynamag
7 Translations of the Key Texts Concerning the Khwadaynamag
7.1 Agathias
7.2 al-Mas'udi
7.3 H amza al-Is fahani
7.4 The Prose Shahname/Preface
7.5 Ibn al-Nadim
7.6 Bal'ami
7.7 Firdawsi
7.8 al-Biruni
7.9 The Mujmal
Bibliography
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