This series offers a critical lens on historical texts, examining their origins and influence across different eras and cultures. It focuses on translated documents that have shaped our understanding of the past. Readers can expect deep dives into historical scholarship and the challenges of interpretation. It is an essential resource for anyone interested in the study of history and its translation.
By translating the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles how knowledge about ancient Iran was transmitted to Muslim historians, in what forms it circulated and how it was shaped and refashioned for the new Perso-Muslim elite that served the early Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad.
This book provides an English translation of twelve orations of the sophist Libanius, one of the most influential figures in the fourth century, who had an important school of rhetoric in Antioch (Syria).