a history of the Eastern Islamic lands AD 650-1041 : the original text of Abû Saʻîd ʻAbd al-Ḥayy Gardīzī /
translated and edited by C. Edmund Bosworth.
London :
I.B. Tauris,
2011.
1 online resource (xii, 169 pages)
I.B. Tauris & BIPS Persian studies series ;
4
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. The Arab governors -- pt. 2. The Tahirids and Saffarids -- pt. 3. The Samanids -- pt. 4. The early Ghaznavids.
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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.
Ingram Content Group
9780857719577
Ornament of histories.
9781848853539
Zayn al-akhbār.
English
Ghaznevids-- History.
Ghaznévides-- Histoire.
Ghaznevids.
HISTORY-- World.
Iran, History, 640-1256.
Khurāsān (Iran), History.
Iran, Histoire, 651-1256.
Khorāsān (Iran), Histoire.
Iran, Khurāsān.
Iran.
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Gardīzī, ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn Z̤aḥḥāk,active 11th century.