Khwadāynāmag the Middle Persian Book of Kings Jaakko Hameen-Anttila 900436546X 9789004365469

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 900436546X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9789004365469
• Author: Jaakko Hameen-Anttila

Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. 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.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 The Khwadāynāmag and Its Context

Chapter 2 Transmitting Materials over a Linguistic Border

Chapter 3 Arabic Translations of the Khwadāynāmag

Chapter 4 Classical Persian Shāhnāmes

Chapter 5 Two Case Studies

Chapter 6 Back to the Khwadāynāmag

Chapter 7 Translations of the Key Texts Concerning the Khwadāynāmag

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