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de Abou Djafar-Moʻhammed-ben Djarir-ben-Yezid Tabari ; traduite sur la version persane d'Abou Ali-Moʻhammed Belʻami, d'après les manuscrits de Paris, de Gotha, de Londres et de Canterbury par Hermann Zotenberg., Imprint varies. Vol. 3: Paris, Imprimerie nationale; v. 4: Nogent-le-Rotrou, Imprimerie de A. Gouverneur., Printed for the Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland and sold at the R. Asiatic society's house., An abridgment of al-Ṭabarī's Annals, without the long citations of authorities and with one only of the various accounts relating to the same event., Hermann Zotenberg's celebrated French translation of Tabari's great 9th-century chronicle ("Tarikh al-Tabari"), actually based on a Persian digest of this work. It remains one of the most important sources for the early days of Islam and for the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties. The Silesian-born French orientalist and Arabist Zotenberg (1836-94) worked for the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. - Bindings rubbed; edges and corners bumped; hinges weakened; front cover of vol. IV loose. Interior clean and well-preserved. - Rare., Main Heritage Shelves General, D17 .T33 1867 vol.2, Book, vol.2, Item-ID: i2267018x, BIB-ID: 1494558, Also issued online. |
