Tarikh al-Tabari

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf history
gptkbp:author gptkb:al-Tabari
gptkbp:citation gptkb:Ibn_Khaldun
gptkb:Al-Masudi
gptkb:Ibn_Kathir
gptkbp:contains genealogies
accounts of battles
accounts of caliphs
accounts of prophets
chronological events
gptkbp:coversPeriod Creation to 915 CE
gptkbp:dateWritten 9th–10th century
gptkbp:editor Ehsan Yar-Shater (English translation)
gptkbp:fullTitle gptkb:Ta'rikh_al-rusul_wa'l-muluk
gptkbp:genre Islamic historiography
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Tarikh al-Tabari
gptkbp:influenced later Islamic historians
gptkbp:notableFor detailed accounts of early Islamic history
use of isnad (chain of transmission)
critical approach to sources
gptkbp:notableRelease gptkb:The_History_of_al-Tabari_(English,_39_volumes)
gptkbp:numberOfVolumes multiple
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Arabic
gptkbp:publishedBy State University of New York Press (English translation)
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:Baghdad
gptkbp:region gptkb:Abbasid_Caliphate
gptkbp:relatedWork gptkb:Tafsir_al-Tabari
gptkbp:significance major source for early Islamic history
gptkbp:structure annalistic
gptkbp:subject World history
Islamic history
pre-Islamic history
history of prophets
biographies of early Muslims
history of the Abbasid Caliphate
history of the Byzantine Empire
history of the Rashidun Caliphate
history of the Sasanian Empire
history of the Umayyad Caliphate
gptkbp:title gptkb:History_of_the_Prophets_and_Kings
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Persian
gptkb:Urdu
English
gptkbp:usedBy scholars of Islamic history
gptkbp:usedSources oral traditions
eyewitness accounts
written sources
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:History_of_the_Prophets_and_Kings
gptkb:Imam_al-Tabari
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6