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Al-Maqrīzī's Al-Ḫabar ʿan Al-Basar, Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part I

Al-Maqrīzī's Al-Ḫabar ʿan Al-Basar, Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part I

Hämeen-Anttila, Jaakko

Hardcover

General Asian HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryHistoriography

ISBN10: 9004355537
ISBN13: 9789004355538
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 7 2017
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.98
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: Arabic
Now available in Open Access thanks to support of the University of Helsinki. Al-Maqrīzī's (d. 845/1442) last work, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-basar, was completed a year before his death. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of pre-Islamic Iran from the Creation to the Parthians. Al-Maqrīzī'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-Ḫabar's sources is Kitāb Hurūsiyūs, the Arabic translation of Paulus Orosius' Historiarum adversum paganos libri vii. This source has only been preserved in one defective copy, and al-Maqrīzī's text helps to fill in some of its lacunae.

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