Mediaeval Islamic historiography and political legitimacy
Balʻamī's Tārīkhnāma
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Word Count
52,500 words, Guess
Page Count
210 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL21321781M
- ISBN-139780415400251
- ISBN-100415400252
- OCLC Control Number122938926
- OCLC Control Number71241968
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- OCLC Control Numbermediaevalislamic00peac
- Library of Congress Control Number2006028990
- Goodreads4981469
Classifications
- DDC907.2
- LCCDS38.2 .T325173 2007
Description
"A.C.S. Peacock's book, Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy: Bal'ami's Tarikhnama is the first research monograph on this major historical work and shows how its composition and reception were influenced by political circumstances. Commissioned by the ruler of one of the largest and most powerful Muslims states of the tenth century, the Samanid dynasty of Central Asia, and composed by his vizier, the Tarikhnama tells us much about the politics and ideology of the Samanid state, which remains comparatively unstudied despite its importance in Islamic history. Future generations continued to adapt the text in accordance with their own political concerns, meaning its manuscripts vary immensely from one another." "Using newly discovered manuscripts, this study sheds much new light, not just on mediaeval Islamic history and the development of Islamic historiography, but also on problems in manuscripts and the transmission of their texts."--BOOK JACKET.
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Series Statement
- Routledge studies in the history of Iran and Turkey
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