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The History of the Saffarids of Sistan and the Maliks of Nimruz (247/861 to 949/1542-3)

Availability: Forthcoming
Published: 2024
Page #: xvi + 520
Size: 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-56859-408-8
bibliography, index, notes

Quick Overview

Sistan, a land now on the borders of Afghanistan and Iran, was ruled in the 9th and 10th centuries by the Saffarids, a dynasty of freebooters of lowly origin who carved out a kingdom from eastern Iranian lands that the declining Abbasid caliphate could no longer hold. Ya'qub, the coppersmith, and his brother `Amr, founders of the dynasty, rose from humble origins to conquer great stretches of Khorasan and southern Iran, only to each face defeat in turn. The writer, traces the history of this dynasty and the little known province of Sistan that was their homeland from their rise in the 10th century down through a series of local dynasties into the early 16th century. A masterwork by a historian who has clarified the obscure and tangled history of the eastern Iranian lands in the middle Ages.



Reprinted in paperback edition in 2024.

author

C. Edmund Bosworth

Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928-2015) was born in Sheffield, England, and received his B.A. in Modern History from Oxford University in 1952. He then studied at Edinburgh University under W. Montgomery Watt and L. P. Elwell-Sutton, receiving his his Master's in 1956 and his Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies in 1961. In 1967, he acccepted the position as Chair of Arabic Studies at Manchester University, retiring as Professor Emeritus in 1990.

His interest in the history of medieval eastern Iran is reflected in three earlier books: The Ghaznavids: Their Empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran (1963), The Later Ghaznavids (1977), and Sistān under the Arabs (1986). His other books include The Medieval Islamic Underworld (1976), The Islamic Dynasties (1967), Bahā’ al-Din al-‘Āmilī and his Literary Anthologies (1989), and three volumes of the translation of The History of al-abarī as well as translations of The History of Beyhaqi (2011) and Gardizi’s Ornament of History (2011). He has written chapters for vols. III, IV, and V of The Cambridge History of Iran and several hundred articles for the second edition of The Encyclopcedia of Islam, Encyclopaedia Iranica, The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Encyclopcedia Britannica, and Encyclopaedia Americana.

Professor Bosworth was also a distinguished editor, having served for many years in various capacities on the editorial staffs of The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Encyclopaedia Iranica, The Journal of Semitic Studies, Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, and the Tabari Translation Project. He was a member of the councils of the Royal Asiatic Society, the British Institute of Persian Studies, and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, and was in 1992 elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Maps and Genealogical Tables
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgements
Note on Presentation
Abbreviations

Part 1. The Saffarids of Sistan

Chapter I. The Significance of the Saffarids in Islamic History and Sources for the History of the Dynasty

Chapter II. Sistan: the Land and Its Early History

Chapter III. The Career and Reign of Ya'qub b. al-Layth (247-65/861-79) and the Establishment of the "First Line" of Saffarids

Chapter IV. The Career and Reign of 'Amr b. al-Layth (265-87/879-900)

Chapter V. 'Amr's Successors and the End of the "First Line" of Saffiirids, or the Laythids (287-97/900- 11)


Chapter VI. The "Second Line" of Saffarids, or the Khalafids
(297-393/911-1002)

Chapter VII. The Organisation and Administration of the Saffarid Empire

Part 2. The Maliks of Nimruz

Chapter VIII. Sistan Under Outside Domination, and the Emergence of the "Third Line" of Rulers in Sistan, or the Narids (421-622/1030-1225)

Chapter IX. The Mihrabanids or "Fourth Line" of Rulers in Sistan
(633/1236 to 949/1542-3)

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Index

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