The 'History of the Kings of the Persians' in Three Arabic Ch... - 9781786941466

The 'History of the Kings of the Persians' in Three Arabic ChroniclesThe Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam\nAuthor(s): Robert G. Hoyland\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781786941466, 978-1786941466\nSynopsis\nThis book translates the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles, those of Ahmad al-Yaqubi (d. ca. 910), Ali al-Masudi (d. ca. 960) and Hamza al-Isfahani (d. ca. 960s). Their accounts, like those of many other Muslim historians on this topic, draw on texts that were composed in the period [tel] bearing the title The History of the Kings of the Persians. These works served a growing audience of well-to-do Muslim bureaucrats and scholars of Persian ancestry, who were interested in their heritage and wished to make it part of the historical outlook of the new civilization that was emerging in the Middle East, namely Islamic civilization.