Khwadāynāmag the Middle Persian Book of Kings

XII + 269 = 281 Pp Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-36546-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Studies in Persian Cultural History

Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. Khwadaynamag. 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 Khwadaynamag is often conceived of as a large book of stories, comparable to Firdawsi's Shahname, 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 Firdawsi's Shahname, showing that the latter was only remotely related to the Khwadaynamag. It also becomes clear that there were no separate "priestly" and "royal" Khwadaynamags.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hämeen-Anttila, Jaakko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Über Autor(innen)

Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, PhD (1994) is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies (University of Edinburgh). He has published on Classical Arabic literature and historiography, including a recent edition of al-Maqrizi’s al-Habar 'an al-bašar Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part 1 (Brill 2018).