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Author Hameen-Anttila, Jaakko, author

Title Khwadāynāmag : the Middle Persian Book of kings / by Jaakko Hameen-Anttila
Published Boston ; Leiden : Brill, [2018]
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Series Studies in Persian cultural history ; v. 14
Studies in Persian cultural history ; 14.
Contents Preface -- 1. The Khwadāynāmag and its context -- 2. Transmitting materials over a linguistic border -- 3. Arabic translations of the Khwadāynāmag -- 4. Classical Persian Shahnames -- 5. Two case studies -- 6. Back to the Khwadāynāmag -- 7. Translations of the key texts concerning the Khwadāynāmag -- Bibliography -- Indices
Summary Khwada¿¿yna¿¿mag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings by Jaakko Ha¿meen-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 Khwada¿¿yna¿¿mag is often conceived of as a large book of stories, comparable to Firdawsi¿¿'s Sha¿¿hna¿¿me, but Ha¿meen-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 Sha¿¿hna¿¿me, showing that the latter was only remotely related to the Khwada¿¿yna¿¿mag . It also becomes clear that there were no separate \'priestly\' and \'royal\' Khwada¿¿yna¿¿mags
Analysis Social & cultural history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Khwadāynāmag
Subject Pahlavi literature -- History and criticism
Sassanids -- Historiography
Sassanids -- History -- Sources
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
HISTORY -- Social History.
Pahlavi literature
Sassanids
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018007221
ISBN 9789004277649
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