By translating the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles 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.
'History of the Kings of the Persians' in Three Arabic ChroniclesREADERSHIP: General (US: Trade)
ISBN-10: 1786941465
ISBN-13: 9781786941466
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Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication date: July 2018
Format: Hardback
Language: English
Dimensions: 154 x 216 x 17 mm
Weight: 372 g
Pages: 224 pages pages
Title: 'History of the Kings of the Persians' in Three Arabic Chronicles