The ornament of histories
Subtitle: a history of the Eastern Islamic lands AD 650-1041 : the original text of Abû Saʻîd ʻAbd al-Ḥayy Gardīzī
By: translated and edited by C. Edmund Bosworth
Series: Middle East; Middle East (Series : Bloomsbury Publishing)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: per
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781350989016; 9780857719577
Subjects: Ghaznevids; History
Work titles: Zayn al-akhbār
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Preface and Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Translation of the Text; title: The Arab Governers; title: The Tahirids and Saffarids; title: The Samanids; title: The Early Ghaznavids; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Indices : 1. Persons, People, Tribes ; 2. Places ; 3. Technical Terms ; 4. Book Titles.