Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʻan al-bašar / volume V, section 4: Persia and its kings, part I / / edited and translated by Jaakko Hameen-Anttila.

• Author: Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hameen-Anttila, Jaakko.; Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston ;, Leiden : : Brill,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English; Arabic
• Series: Maqrizi, Ahmad ibn'Ali, 1364-1442. Works.; Bibliotheca Maqriziana 05.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 511 pages) :; illustrations.

Al-Maqrīzī's (d. 845/1442) last work, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar , was completed a year before his death. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of pre-Islamic Iran from the Creation to the Parthians. Al-Maqrīzī's work shows how Arab historians integrated Iran into world history and how they harmonized various currents of historiography (Middle Persian historiography, Islamic sacred history, Greek and Latin historiography). Among al-Ḫabar' s sources is Kitāb Hurūšiyūš , the Arabic translation of Paulus Orosius' Historiarum adversum paganos libri vii. This source has only been preserved in one defective copy, and al-Maqrīzī's text helps to fill in some of its lacunae.

Table of Contents

List of plates -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. al-Maqrizi and the Ḫabar -- 2. the Pre-Islamic history of Iran in Arabic and Persian sources -- 3. al-Maqrizi's sources -- 4. al-Maqrizi and Orosius -- 5. al-Maqrizi's use of sources -- 6. Description of the manuscripts -- 7. Notes on the translation -- 8. Names -- Plates -- Abbreviations and symbols -- Critical edition and translation of al-Maqrizi's al-Ḫabar ʻan al-bašar, Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and its kings, Part I: Persia and the four classes of its kings: the first class, the Pišdadians: Usahang -- Tahmurat -- Ǧamšid -- Biwarasf -- Faridun -- Manusǧihr -- Zaw -- Karšasf -- Mention of the second class of Persians, the Kayanids: Kay Qubad -- Kay Kawus -- Kay Husraw -- Kay Luhrasf -- Kay Bistasf -- Kay Ardašir Bahman -- Humani -- Darius the Elder -- Xerxes -- Darius the Younger -- Alexander -- The mention of Nibyadah bt. Tara'us -- Aristotle -- The third class of Persian (kings), the Asganians -- Bibliography -- List of quoted manuscripts -- Index of Qur'anic verses -- Index of prophetic traditions -- Index of verses -- Index of names (people and places) -- Index of quoted titles in al-Ḫabar ʻan al-bašar -- Index of sources in al-Ḫabar ʻan al-bašar -- Index of glosses -- Index of technical terms -- Facsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), fols. 76b-127b, 47*a-b, 128a-131a.