The History of the Kings of the Persians in Three Arabic Chro... - 9781786941473

Description: The History of the Kings of the Persians in Three Arabic ChroniclesThe Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam Author(s): Robert G. Hoyland Format: Paperback Publisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Liverpool University Press ISBN-13: 9781786941473, 978-1786941473 Synopsis This book translates the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles, those of Ahmad al-Ya'qubi (d. ca. 910), 'Ali al-Mas'udi (d. ca. 960) and Hamza al-Isfahani (d. ca. 960s). Their accounts, like those of many other Muslim historians on this topic, draw on texts that were composed in the period [tel] bearing the title 'The History of the Kings of the Persians'. These works served a growing audience of well-to-do Muslim bureaucrats and scholars of Persian ancestry, who were interested in their heritage and wished to make it part of the historical outlook of the new civilization that was emerging in the Middle East, namely Islamic civilization. This book explores the question of how knowledge about ancient Iran was transmitted to Muslim historians, in what forms it circulated and how it was shaped and refashioned for the new Perso-Muslim elite that served the early Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad, a city that was built only a short distance away from the old Persian capital of Seleucia-Ctesiphon.

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Book Title: The History of the Kings of the Persians in Three Arabic Chron...

Number of Pages: 200 Pages

Publication Name: The History of the Kings of the Persians in Three Arabic Chronicles: The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam

Language: English

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Item Height: 210 mm

Subject: History

Publication Year: 2018

Type: Textbook

Author: Not Available

Item Width: 147 mm

Series: Translated Texts for Historians

Format: Paperback