History of the Prophets and Kings

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History of the Prophets and Kings
16-volume book on the history of Tabari
Authoral-Tabari
Original titleتاريخ الرسل والملوك
تاریخ طبری
LanguageArabic
SubjectHistory of the World, Islam and Arab Caliphates
GenreHistorical biography of events
Publication date
10th century
Pages16 volumes

The History of the Prophets and Kings (

Abbasid era, down to the year 915. An appendix[1] or continuation,[2] was written by Abu Abdullah b. Ahmad b. Ja'far al-Farghani, a student of al-Tabari.[3][4]

Editions

Various editions of the Annals include:

Volumes of the SUNY edition

Content

The main purpose of Tabari was to write history according to the science of narration. That is to say he quotes the narrator without interfering in any way.[6][7][non-primary source needed]

Among its content can be found:[citation needed]

  • Hadith of the pen and paper
  • Information about Zayd al-Khayr
  • Information about
    Utbah ibn Ghazwan
  • Information about
    Ka’b al-Ahbar
  • the killing of Uthman
    .
  • Some hadith regarding Aisha’s age at marriage.
  • Slave
    Zanj rebellion
    .

Tabari at times draws on the Syriac Julian Romance.[8]

External links

See also

References

  1. ^ Autonomous Egypt from Ibn Tulun to Kafur, 868-969, Thierry Bianquis, The Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol. 1, ed. M. W. Daly, Carl F. Petry, (Cambridge University Press, 1998), 98.
  2. ^ History and Historians, Claude Cahen, Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period, 203
  3. ^ History and Historians, Claude Cahen, Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period, ed. M. J. L. Young, J. D. Latham, R. B. Serjeant, (Cambridge University Press, 1990), 203.
  4. Ibn Jarir al-Tabari
    , The History of al-Tabari Vol. 1: General Introduction and From the Creation to the Flood, transl. Franz Rosenthal, (State University of New York Press, 1989), 7.
  5. ^ SUNY Press :: History of al-Tabari
  6. ^ Tarikh Al-Tabari. Vol. 1. pp. 7–8. Let the reader be aware that whatever I mention in my book is relied on the news that were narrated by some men. I had attributed these stories to their narrators, without inferring anything from their incidents
  7. ^ Tarikh Al-Tabari. Vol. 1. p. 8. If a certain man gets horrified by a certain incident that we reported in our book, then let him know that it did not come from us, but we only wrote down what we received from the narrators
  8. George A. Kiraz
    ; Lucas Van Rompay (eds.). Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
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