Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʿan al-basar, Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part I (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004355538)

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.

Author: Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila
ISBN-10: 9004355537
ISBN-13: 9789004355538
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/07/2017
Pages: 522
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.98lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 1.13d