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BL
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1103713
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bc101605
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| Language of Document
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English
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| Uniform Title
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Zayn al-akhbār.English
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| Main Entry
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Gardīzī, ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn Z̤aḥḥāk,active 11th century.
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| Title & Author
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The ornament of histories : : a history of the Eastern Islamic lands AD 650-1041 : the original text of Abû Saʻîd ʻAbd al-Ḥayy Gardīzī /\ translated and edited by C. Edmund Bosworth.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: I.B. Tauris,, 2011.
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| Series Statement
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I.B. Tauris & BIPS Persian studies series ;; 4
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1 online resource (xii, 169 pages)
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| ISBN
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9780857719577
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: 0857719572
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9781848853539
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184885353X
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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pt. 1. The Arab governors -- pt. 2. The Tahirids and Saffarids -- pt. 3. The Samanids -- pt. 4. The early Ghaznavids.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Ghaznevids-- History.
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Ghaznévides-- Histoire.
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HISTORY-- World.
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Ghaznevids.
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Khurāsān (Iran), History.
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Iran, History, 640-1256.
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Khorāsān (Iran), Histoire.
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Iran, Histoire, 651-1256.
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Iran.
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Iran, Khurāsān.
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| Dewey Classification
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909.09767
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| LC Classification
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DS324.K47G3713 2011eb
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| Added Entry
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Bosworth, Clifford Edmund.
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