Khwadāynāmag : : the Middle Persian Book of kings / / by Jaakko Hameen-Anttila.

• Author: Hameen-Anttila, Jaakko.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston ;, Leiden : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Persian Cultural History 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 pages).

Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, drawing on a large number of Middle Persian, Greek, Arabic, and Classical Persian sources. The Khwadāynāmag is often conceived of as a large book of stories, comparable to Firdawsī's Shāhnāme , but Hämeen-Anttila convincingly shows that it was a concise and dry chronicle. He also studies the lost Arabic translations of the book, which turn out to be fewer than hitherto thought, as well as the sources of Firdawsī's Shāhnāme , showing that the latter was only remotely related to the Khwadāynāmag . It also becomes clear that there were no separate \'priestly\' and \'royal\' Khwadāynāmags .

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface -- The Khwadāynāmag and Its Context -- Transmitting Materials over a Linguistic Border -- Arabic Translations of the Khwadāynāmag -- Classical Persian Shāhnāmes -- Two Case Studies -- Back to the Khwadāynāmag -- Translations of the Key Texts Concerning the Khwadāynāmag -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Indices.