Faḍāʾil-I Balkh (the Merits of Balkh)

by Edmund Herzig and Arezou Azad

This is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Faḍāʾil-i Balkh ("The Merits of Balkh"), which was completed in 610 Hijrī (1214 CE) in Arabic by Shaykh al-Islām Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh al-Wāʿiẓ and translated into Persian by ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusaynī in 676 Hijri (1278 CE). It is the Persian version which survives today and forms the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913604004
• ISBN13: 9781913604004
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.7"