Informationen zum Autor C. E. Bosworth is former Professor of Arabic at the University of Manchester. Mohsen Ashtiany is a research scholar at Columbia University. Klappentext This is the first complete translation! with detailed commentary! of the surviving volumes of Beyhaqi's massive project. The historian's writings! dealing with the years 1030-1041! combine astute criticism and wry humor with an unobtrusive display of mastery of the learned literature of the time! both in Arabic and Persian. Zusammenfassung This is the first complete translation, with detailed commentary, of the surviving volumes of Beyhaqi's massive project. The historian's writings, dealing with the years 10301041, combine astute criticism and wry humor with an unobtrusive display of mastery of the learned literature of the time, both in Arabic and Persian.

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This is the first complete translation, with detailed commentary, of the surviving volumes of Beyhaqi's massive project. The historian's writings, dealing with the years 1030-1041, combine astute criticism and wry humor with an unobtrusive display of mastery of the learned literature of the time, both in Arabic and Persian.