Title: | Three neglected sources of Sasanian history in the reign of Khusraw Anushirvan |
Author: | Michael Richard Jackson Bonner |
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Language: | English |
Series: | Studia Iranica: cahier 46 |
Place: | Paris |
Publisher: | Association pour l’avancement des études iraniennes |
Year: | 2011 |
Pages: | 115 |
ISBN: | 9782910640323, 2910640329 |
File: | PDF, 29.7 MB |
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Michael Richard Jackson Bonner. Three neglected sources of Sasanian history in the reign of Khusraw Anushirvan. Studia Iranica: cahier 46. Paris: Association pour l’avancement des études iraniennes, 2011, 115 p. ISBN 9782910640323
This cahier deals with the criticism of three sources: Dīnawarī’s al-Akhbār al-Ṭiwāl, the so-called Sīrat Ānūsharwān, and Firdawsī’s Shāhnāma. The need to examine these sources arises from a re-evaluation of Nöldeke’s Khudāy-Nāma hypothesis; a case is built for the independence and utility of those three sources; and four test cases follow, in which the sources are put to work on issues of central importance in the history of sixth-century Iran. The conclusion is a narrative integrating the findings of the test cases into the broad picture of Sasanian history.