The History of the Kings of the Persians in Three Arabic Chronicles: (Record no. 3345)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781786941473
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Original cataloging agency PMNP
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency Kutubkhanah Diraja
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 955.02
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9 (RLIN) 3534
Personal name Hoyland, Robert G.,
Dates associated with a name 1966-
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Title The History of the Kings of the Persians in Three Arabic Chronicles:
Remainder of title The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Translated with introduction and notes by Robert G. Hoyland
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Liverpool
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Liverpool University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2018
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 185p
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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 750-850 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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Topical term or geographic name entry element History
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