The Ornament of Histories: A History of the Eastern Islamic Lands AD 650-1041 pdf

克利福德·埃德蒙·博斯沃思 FBA 是一位英国历史学家和东方学家，专门研究阿拉伯语和伊朗语。 他获得了学士学位。 牛津大学学位和文学硕士和博士学位。 爱丁堡大学学位。 他曾在圣安德鲁斯大学、曼彻斯特大学和普林斯顿大学人文中心担任长期职务。 他在学术期刊和综合卷上发表了 100 多篇文章。 他的其他贡献包括伊斯兰百科全书近 200 篇文章和伊朗百科全书约 100 篇文章，以及大英百科全书和美国百科全书的文章。 他目前是埃克塞特大学的客座教授，自 2004 年以来一直担任该职位。 他的著作《伊斯兰王朝》已被翻译成阿拉伯语和波斯语。 他是伊斯兰教百科全书的主编和伊朗百科全书的顾问编辑。

The Ornament of Histories: A History of the Eastern Islamic Lands AD 650-1041 pdf 克利福德·埃德蒙·博斯沃思

Abu Sa‘id ‘Abd al-Hayy Gardizi was an author and historian living in the mid-eleventh century at the height of the Turkish Ghazvanid dynasty. His only known work, The Ornament of Histories (Zayn al-akhbir), is a hugely ambitious history of the Eastern Islamic lands AD 650-1041, spanning what is now Eastern Iran, Afghanistan and parts of the Central Asian Republics and Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Gardizi's text is an extremely rare source of primary information about the rise of Islamic faith, culture and military dominance in these regions, and represents a significant contribution to our understanding of the early Islamic world. This is the first English translation of the original Persian text, and is accompanied by an introduction and commentary which details the historical, geographical and cultural context.