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The ornament of histories : a history of the Eastern Islamic lands AD 650-1041 : the original text of Abû Saʻîd ʻAbd al-Ḥayy Gardīzī / translated and edited by C. Edmund Bosworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gardīzī, ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn Z̤aḥḥāk, active 11th century
- Series:
- Middle East (Series : Bloomsbury Publishing)
- Middle East
- Standardized Title:
- Zayn al-akhbār. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghaznevids--History.
- Ghaznevids.
- Iran--History--640-1256.
- Iran.
- Khurāsān (Iran)--History.
- Khurāsān (Iran).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- HTML
- Summary:
- "Abu Sa'id 'Abd al-Hayy Gardizi was an author and historian living in the mid-eleventh century at the height of the Turkish Ghazvanid dynasty. His only known work, "The Ornament of Histories" ("Zayn al-akhbir"), is a hugely ambitious history of the Eastern Islamic lands AD 650-1041, spanning what is now Eastern Iran, Afghanistan and parts of the Central Asian Republics and Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Gardizi's text is an extremely rare source of primary information about the rise of Islamic faith, culture and military dominance in these regions, and represents a significant contribution to our understanding of the early Islamic world. This is the first English translation of the original Persian text, and is accompanied by an introduction and commentary which details the historical, geographical and cultural context."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Translation of the Text
- The Arab Governers
- The Tahirids and Saffarids
- The Samanids
- The Early Ghaznavids
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Indices : 1. Persons, People, Tribes ; 2. Places ; 3. Technical Terms ; 4. Book Titles.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613169105
- 9781350989016
- 1350989010
- 9781283169103
- 128316910X
- 9780857719577
- 0857719572
- OCLC:
- 741613244
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