 16-volume book on the history of Tabari | |
| Author | al-Tabari |
|---|---|
| Original title | تاريخ الرسل والملوك تاریخ طبری |
| Language | Arabic |
| Subject | History of the World, Islam and Arab Caliphates |
| Genre | Historical biography of events |
Publication date | 10th century |
| Pages | 16 volumes |
The History of the Prophets and Kings (Arabic: تاريخ الرسل والملوك Tārīkh al-Rusul wa al-Mulūk), more commonly known as Tarikh al-Tabari (تاريخ الطبري) or Tarikh-i Tabari or The History of al-Tabari (Persian: تاریخ طبری) is an Arabic-language historical chronicle completed by the Muslim historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (225–310 AH, 838–923 AD) in 915 AD. It begins with creation, and charts Muslim and Middle Eastern history from the myths and legends associated with the Old Testament through to the history of the Abbasid era, down to the year 915. An appendix[1] or continuation,[2] was written by Abu Abdullah b. Ahmad b. Ja'far al-Farghani, a student of al-Tabari.[3][4] Tabari's work appeared during an intense period of canonization of Islamic history, and, in many ways, represented a culminating prism through which future Muslims read and learned about the past.[5]
- ^ Autonomous Egypt from Ibn Tulun to Kafur, 868-969, Thierry Bianquis, The Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol. 1, ed. M. W. Daly, Carl F. Petry, (Cambridge University Press, 1998), 98.
- ^ History and Historians, Claude Cahen, Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period, 203
- ^ History and Historians, Claude Cahen, Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period, ed. M. J. L. Young, J. D. Latham, R. B. Serjeant, (Cambridge University Press, 1990), 203.
- ^ Ibn Jarir al-Tabari, The History of al-Tabari Vol. 1: General Introduction and From the Creation to the Flood, transl. Franz Rosenthal, (State University of New York Press, 1989), 7.
- ^ Ibrahim, Ayman S. (2024). Muhammad's military expeditions: a critical reading in original Muslim sources. New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-19-776917-1.