Khwadāynāmag : the Middle Persian Book of kings /

Khwadāynāmag : the Middle Persian Book of kings /

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 storie...

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Main Author: Hameen-Anttila, Jaakko.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston ; Leiden : Brill, [2018]

Series: Studies in Persian Cultural History 14.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353343.

Subjects:

Khwadāynāmag.
Pahlavi literature > History and criticism.
Sassanids > Historiography.
Sassanids > History > Sources.

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Call Number: PK6198.K493

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Preface
  • The Khwadāynāmag and Its Context
  • Transmitting Materials over a Linguistic Border
  • Arabic Translations of the Khwadāynāmag
  • Classical Persian Shāhnāmes
  • Two Case Studies
  • Back to the Khwadāynāmag
  • Translations of the Key Texts Concerning the Khwadāynāmag
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Indices.