Authority and identity in medieval Islamic historiography : Persian histories from the peripheries /
Intriguing dreams, improbable myths, fanciful genealogies, and suspect etymologies. These were all key elements of the historical texts composed by scholars and bureaucrats on the peripheries of Islamic empires between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. But how are historians to interpret such narra...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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