Khwadāynāmag
Subtitle: the Middle Persian Book of kings
By: by Jaakko Hameen-Anttila
Series: Studies in Persian cultural history -- volume 14; Studies in Persian cultural history -- v. 14.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9789004365469
Subjects: Pahlavi literature; History and criticism; Sassanids; Historiography; Sources; History; Khwadāynāmag
Description: "Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, drawing on a large number of Middle Persian, Greek, Arabic, and Classical Persian sources. The Khwadāynāmag is often conceived of as a large book of stories, comparable to Firdawsī's Shāhnāme, but Hämeen-Anttila convincingly shows that it was a concise and dry chronicle. He also studies the lost Arabic translations of the book, which turn out to be fewer than hitherto thought, as well as the sources of Firdawsī's Shāhnāme, showing that the latter was only remotely related to the Khwadāynāmag. It also becomes clear that there were no separate "priestly" and "royal" Khwadāynāmags"--back cover.

Khwadaynamag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings' analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, drawing on a large number of Middle Persian, Greek, Arabic, and Classical Persian sources.0The Khwadaynamag is often conceived of as a large book of stories, comparable to Firdawsi's Shahname, but Hämeen-Anttila convincingly shows that it was a concise and dry chronicle. He also studies the lost Arabic translations of the book, which turn out to be fewer than hitherto thought, as well as the sources of Firdawsi's Shahname, showing that the latter was only remotely related to the Khwadaynamag. It also becomes clear that there were no separate "priestly" and "royal" Khwadaynamags.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. The Khwadāynāmag and its context; title: 2. Transmitting materials over a linguistic border; title: 3. Arabic translations of the Khwadāynāmag; title: 4. Classical Persian Shahnames; title: 5. Two case studies; title: 6. Back to the Khwadāynāmag; title: 7. Translations of the key texts concerning the Khwadāynāmag; title: Bibliography; title: Indices.