8vo. xii, 319 pp., 4 maps, publisher’s original wrappers, biblio. index, copy in mint condition, new, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1999.

Synopsis

The book is an analysis of historical chronicles in Persian in the Samanid, Ghaznavid and Seljuk periods. The author presents a detailed analysis of the historical literature written in Persian from 819 to 1194. In the introduction, she gives a detailed overview of the field of Persian and Islamic historiography, setting the stage for subsequent chapters to take up a detailed discussion of the major historical works. [Journal of Islamic Philosophy
Volume 4, 2008, pages 111-112].