Michael Cooperson
- MASʿUDI VII. THE PSEUDO-AḴBĀR AL-ZAMĀN
VII. THE PSEUDO-AḴBĀR AL-ZAMĀN Masʿudi’s major work on history was called Aḵbār al-zamān. A work under this title has been…
- MASʿUDI VI. OTHER REFERENCES TO IRANIAN CULTURE
VI. OTHER REFERENCES TO IRANIAN CULTURE A. Cosmology and geography. Plato, Themistius, and the Stoics believed that the celestial spheres…
- MASʿUDI V. THE HISTORY OF IRAN IN ISLAMIC TIMES
V. THE HISTORY OF IRAN IN ISLAMIC TIMES During the caliphate of Walid I (r. 86-96/705-15), the governor of Iraq,…
- MASʿUDI IV. PERSIAN FIGURES OF THE EARLY CALIPHAL PERIOD
IV. PERSIAN FIGURES OF THE EARLY CALIPHAL PERIOD The governor of Madāʾen under ʿOmar was the ascetic Salmān Fāresi, who…
- MASʿUDI III. THE ARAB CONQUESTS
III. THE ARAB CONQUESTS When the caliph Omar declared that God had promised Persia to the Muslims, Abu ʿObayd b….
- MASʿUDI II. THE PRE-ISLAMIC HISTORY OF IRAN
II. THE PRE-ISLAMIC HISTORY OF IRAN The Persians are a nation (omma) whose territory includes Azarbaijan to the borders of…
- MASʿUDI I. SOURCES
I. SOURCES. Masʿudi considers the Persians to be the best sources for their own history and declares that he has…
- MASʿUDI
MASʿUDI, ABU’l-ḤASAN ʿALI b. Ḥosaynb. ʿAli b. ʿAbd-Allāh Hoḏali, a tenth-century geographer and historian and an important source of information…
- JĀḤEẒ
JĀḤEẒ, ABU ʿOṮMĀN ʿAMR B. BAḤR (b. ca. 160/776; d. 255/868-9), the leading Arabic prose writer of the 9th century….