History of the Prophets and Kings

The History of the Prophets and Kings (Arabic: تاريخ الرسل والملوك Tarikh al-Rusul wa al-Muluk, popularly known Tarikh al-Tabari, Persian: تاریخ طبری) is an Arabic historical chronicle written by Persian[1] author and historian Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari died 310H (838-923) from the Creation to AD 915, and contains detail concerning Muslim and the history of the Middle East. A al-Sila, appendix[2] or continuation,[3] was written by Abu Abdullah b. Ahmad b. Ja'far al-Farghani, a Turk student of al-Tabari.[4][5]

Editions

Various editions of the Annals include:

Here is the list of titles for the 40-volume edition:

Content

The introduction states:

“ 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] ”
“ 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] ”

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.

Among its content can be found:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gaston Wiet, etc, "The Great Medieval Civilizations: cultural and scientific development. Volume 3. The great medieval civilizations. Part 1", Published by Allen and Unwin, 1975. pg 722:In the meantime another author, Tabari, Persian by origin, had been unobtrusively at work on two monumental pieces of writing, a commentary on the Koran ..
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ History and Historians, Claude Cahen, Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period, 203
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ SUNY Press :: History of al-Tabari
  7. ↑ [Tarikh Al-Tabari, 1/7-8]
  8. ↑ [Tarikh Al-Tabari, 1/8].