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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 .
Pahlavi literature --- Sassanids --- History and criticism. --- Historiography. --- History --- Khwadāynāmag. --- Sasanians --- Sassanians --- Persian literature --- Middle Persian (Pahlavi) --- Pahlavi --- Social & cultural history
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For the first time the genre of the maqama, the most widespread and popular genre of fictional prose within Arab literature, is presented in its comprehensive history. It was through its stylistic virtuosity as well as its awareness of a situation of social and intellectual crisis that the maqama, portraying the picaresque dramatic performance of a needy literary artist, won global fame. The most celebrated maqamas of Al-Hariri (d.1122) have not only formed part of the Arabic literary canon for many centuries but have inspired even extra-Arabic oriental literatures such as Hebrew and Christian-Syrian and - more lately - modern arabic theatre.
Roman picaresque --- Littérature arabe --- Maqamah --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism.
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Arabic language --- Grammar --- Arabic language - Grammar - Early works to 1800
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Akkadian language --- Akkadien (Langue) --- Grammar --- Grammaire --- Dialects. --- Dialectes --- Dialects --- Akkadian language - Grammar
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The Proceedings of the 27th congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (Helsinki, Finland, June 2-6, 2014) contain forty-three scholarly articles on various aspects of the Islamic world from late antiquity to modernity. The scholarly focus of most contributions is the medieval Musliim civilisation. In addition to the Arabic cultural sphere, the Persian and Turkish regions are represented in this collection of articles. The studies discuss social, political, literary and cultural history. The variety of approaches to the sources and methods employed shows the width of European research on the Arab-Islamic culture. This volume provides an easy access to the newest European scholarship on the Middle East
Islamic civilization --- Civilisation islamique --- Conferences - Meetings --- Academic collection --- Araber --- Kultur --- Kulturbeziehungen --- Islam --- Europa --- Naher Osten
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Al-Maqrīzī's (d. 845/1442) last work, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar , was completed a year before his death. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of pre-Islamic Iran from the Creation to the Parthians. Al-Maqrīzī's work shows how Arab historians integrated Iran into world history and how they harmonized various currents of historiography (Middle Persian historiography, Islamic sacred history, Greek and Latin historiography). Among al-Ḫabar' s sources is Kitāb Hurūšiyūš , the Arabic translation of Paulus Orosius' Historiarum adversum paganos libri vii. This source has only been preserved in one defective copy, and al-Maqrīzī's text helps to fill in some of its lacunae.
Arabs --- Iranians --- Genealogy --- Iranis --- Persians --- Ethnology --- Indo-Iranians --- Semites --- Middle Eastern history
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