The History of al-Tabari Vol. 1 : General Introduction and From the Creation to the Flood
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
SUNY series in Near Eastern Studies
ISBN-10
0887065635
ISBN-13
9780887065637
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Imprint
State University of New York Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 3rd, 1989
Print length
434 Pages
Weight
590 grams
Product Classification:
Asian history
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Volume I of the thirty-eight volume translation of ?abari's great History begins with the creation of the world and ends with the time of Noah and the Flood. It not only brings a vast amount of speculation about the early history of mankind into sharp Muslim focus, but it also synchronizes ancient Iranian ideas about the prehistory of mankind with those inspired by the Qur'an and the Bible. The volume is thus an excellent guide to the cosmological views of many of ?abari's contemporaries. The translator, Franz Rosenthal, one of the world's foremost scholars of Arabic, has also written an extensive introduction to the volume that presents all the facts known about ?abari's personal and professional life. Professor Rosenthal's meticulous and original scholarship has yielded a valuable bibliography and chronology of ?abari's writings, both those preserved in manuscript and those alluded to by other authors. The introduction and first volume of the translation of the History form a ground-breaking contribution to Islamic historiography in English and will prove to be an invaluable source of information for those who are interested in Middle Eastern history but are unable to read the basic works in Arabic.
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