[PDF] Persian Historiography And Geography eBook

Author : Bertold Spuler
Publisher : Pustaka Nasional Pte Ltd
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9789971774882

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The role played by the Persian language in the context of the Islamic world of learning, literature and scholarship, especially in parts of the Muslim lands under Persian cultural influence, has often been overlooked. While what is generally known of Persian writing covers mostly only certain aspects of mystical poetry, such as those by Maulana Rumi, Sa'di or Hafiz, less is understood about the richness of travel literature, geography or historiography written in this language. Even more astonishing is that the Persian language had virtually been the lingua franca of the educated Muslims in Central Asia and Muslim India as well, and this partly up to the early twentieth century! Even in the Malay world, famous mystics, such as Hamzah Fansuri, used to have a thorough knowledge of Persian.

Author : Vasilii Vladimirovich Barthold
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1400853222

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This volume is a compendium of the rich archeological and literary evidence on the Iranian world in its larger sense, comprising part of what is now Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan as well as Iran proper. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Charles Melville
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909724884

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The Nuzhat al-qulūb by 14th century historian and geographer Ḥamd-Allāh Mustaufī gives a description of Iran in the form of a gazetteer. This edition makes Guy Le Strange's English translation (1919) available once more.

Author : Iqtidar Husain Siddiqi
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2014
Category : India
ISBN : 9789384082185

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This book dicusses the origin and growth of Indo-Persian historiography with particular emphasis on India's contribution to the literary heritage of the Persian world. It also evaluates the important changes that the writing of history underwent as it developed within the Indian environment. Besides a discussion of the methods employed by the Indo-Persian historians, the book focuses, for the first time, on an important contemporary work, Awfi's Jawami'ul-Hikayat-waLivam'ul-Rivaayat as a source for the study of the history of the social and political developments in the Islamic world. This enlarged edition also examines the poet 'Isami's Futuhus-Salatin that chronicles the reign of the Sultans from the eleventh to fourteenth centuries, and is remarkable for the details of the political and social developments that took place in south India after its annexation to the Sultanate of Delhi.

Author : Meisami Julie Scott Meisami
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1474470947

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Winner of the 1999 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies. Described by the BKFS reviewer as "e;A ground-breaking work on a subject that has been almost totally neglected."e;"e;Why write history in Persian?"e; 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 tenth through the twelfth centuries, the case of Persian historical writing demands special attention. Discussions tend to concentrate on its sources in pre-Islamic Persian and in Arabic works, while the reasons for its emergence, its connections with Iranian and Arabic models, its political and cultural functions, and its reception, have been virtually ignored. This study answers these questions and addresses issues relating to the motivation for writing the works in question; its purpose; the role of the author, patrons and audiences; the choice of language and the reasons for that choice; the place of historical writing in the broader debate over the suitability of Persian for scholarly writing.

Author : Iqtidar Husain Siddiqi
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 8190891804

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This book discusses the origin and growth of Indo-Persian historiography with specific emphasis on India's contribution to the literary heritage of the Persian world. Besides examining 'Awfi's Jawami'ul-Hikayat-wa-Livam'ul-Rivayat as a source of history, the volume also assesses the history of history writing by immigrant and Indian scholars, and is a pioneering attempt insofar as it attempts to study the social background and the religious and political ideals of each of the writers included in this book.

Author : Sholeh A. Quinn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1108842216

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The comparative study of Persian historiography of the early modern Islamic empires, the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals, presenting in-depth case analyses alongside a wide array of primary sources to illustrate the extensive universe of literary-historical writing that Persian historiography can be found within.