Khwadāynāmag : the Middle Persian Book of kings / by Jaakko Hameen-Anttila.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hämeen-Anttila, Jaakko, author.

Series:

Studies in Persian cultural history ; v. 14.

Studies in Persian cultural history ; volume 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pahlavi literature--History and criticism.

Pahlavi literature.

Sassanids.

Khwadāynāmag.

History.

Historiography.

Sasanian dynasty, 224-651--History--Sources.

Sasanian dynasty.

Sasanian dynasty, 224-651--Historiography.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xii, 282 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings by Jaakko H meen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, drawing on a large number of Middle Persian, Greek, Arabic, and Classical Persian sources. The Khwadāynāmag is often conceived of as a large book of stories, comparable to Firdawsī's Shāhnāme, but H meen-Anttila convincingly shows that it was a concise and dry chronicle. He also studies the lost Arabic translations of the book, which turn out to be fewer than hitherto thought, as well as the sources of Firdawsī's Shāhnāme, showing that the latter was only remotely related to the Khwadāynāmag. It also becomes clear that there were no separate "priestly" and "royal" Khwadāynāmags .

Contents:

Preface

1. The Khwadāynāmag and its context

2. Transmitting materials over a linguistic border

3. Arabic translations of the Khwadāynāmag

4. Classical Persian Shahnames

5. Two case studies

6. Back to the Khwadāynāmag

7. Translations of the key texts concerning the Khwadāynāmag

Bibliography

Indices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Hameen-Anttila, Jaakko. Khwadāynāmag.

ISBN:

9789004365469

900436546X

OCLC:

1022978024

Publisher Number:

99977344140