Al-Tabari, A Medieval Muslim Historian and his Work

Hugh N. Kennedy

doi:10.2307/jj.16971576

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-3-95994-112-9
ISBN-Online: 978-3-95994-113-6
Publisher: Gerlach Press, Berlin
Series: SLAEI - Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam
Volume: 15
Language: English
Pages: 395
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword to the New 2024 Edition No access
3. Preface No access
1 Al-Ṭabarī: an Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
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2 Al-Ṭabarī: the Period before Jesus No access Pages 11 - 26
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3 Al-Ṭabarī on Sasanian History: a Study in Sources No access Pages 27 - 40
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4 Al-Ṭabarī and the Age of the Sasanians No access Pages 41 - 72
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5 Al-Ṭabarī on the Last Great War of Antiquity No access Pages 73 - 94
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6 Heraclius, Shahrbarāz, and al-Ṭabarī No access Pages 95 - 112
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7 Al-Ṭabarī’s Prelude to the Prophet No access Pages 113 - 130
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8 Al-Ṭabarī and the “History of Salvation” No access Pages 131 - 140
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9 The Historical Work of al-Balādhurī and al-Ṭabarī: the Author’s Attitude towards the Sources No access Pages 141 - 156
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10 Al-Nawfalī’s Lost History: a Shīʿī Source Used by al-Ṭabarī and Abū l-Faraj No access Pages 157 - 174
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11 The Sources of al-Ṭabarī’s History of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate No access Pages 175 - 186
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12 The Biographical Work of al-Ṭabarī No access Pages 187 - 208
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13 The Quest for Historical Reliability: a Test of Two Hypotheses Relating to the Use of Numbers in al-Ṭabarī’s History No access Pages 209 - 218
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14 Theophanes and al-Ṭabarī on the Arab Invasions of Byzantium No access Pages 219 - 236
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15 The Samarran Turkish Community in the Taʾrīkh of al-Ṭabarī No access Pages 237 - 262
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16 The Sāmānid “Translations” of al-Ṭabarī No access Pages 263 - 298
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17 A Local Historian’s Debt to al-Ṭabarī: the Case of al-Azdī’s Taʾrīkh al Mawsil No access Pages 299 - 318
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18 The Leiden Edition of al-Ṭabarī’s Annals: the Search for the Istanbul Manuscripts No access Pages 319 - 336
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19 Russian Translations of al-Ṭabarī’s History No access Pages 337 - 344
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20 The Other al-Ṭabarī No access Pages 345 - 354
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Bibliography of Works Pertaining to al-Ṭabarī No access Pages 355 - 362
Genral Index No access Pages 363 - 384