The 'History of the kings of the Persians' in three Arabic chronicles : the transmission of the Iranian past from Late Antiquity to early Islam /

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...

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Other Authors: Masʻūdī, -956?, Ḥamzah al-Iṣfahānī, 893 or 894-970 or 971, Hoyland, Robert G., 1966- (Editor, Translator), Yaʻqūbī, Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʻqūb, -897?
Format: Book
Language:English
Arabic
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018
Series:Translated texts for historians ; v. 69
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