Persian Historiography

by Julie Scott Meisami

Book Overview

Winner of the 1999 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies. Described by the BKFS reviewer as "A ground-breaking work on a subject that has been almost totally neglected.""Why write history in Persian?" Persian historical writing has received little attention as compared with Arabic, especially as seen in the early (pre-Mongol) period. Within the larger context of the development of Islamic historiography from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748612769
• ISBN13: 9780748612765
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher