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Notes on Ṭabarī's History*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

Lawrence I. Conrad
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The caliphate of Hisham ibn ‘Abd al-Malik (105–25/724–43) was undoubtedly one of the most important periods in early Islamic history, and as witness to the history of this era a source of paramount importance is certainly the Ta'rīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk of al-Ṭabarī. This in itself makes the publication of Volume xxv of the English translation of this work by Dr Khalid Yahya Blankinship, covering all but the last five years of Hishām's long reign, a matter of special interest to historians of the eastern lands of Islam. The reader will immediately notice that al-Ṭabarī devotes the bulk of his narrative for this period to events in Khurāsān and Transoxania, specifically, to the Umayyad campaigns there and hostilities with the Türgish khāqān Sü-lü Čur. In the course of this narrative one finds not only a wealth of information on military matters, but also much valuable data on the customs of the western Turks and life in Central Asia in general. The author's reasons for giving his work such a markedly eastern emphasis at this point are not unrelated to a desire, as Blankinship observes, to set forth the background for the 'Abbāsid revolution. But most of what al-Ṭabarī reports for this period is in fact not of immediate relevance to the advent of the 'Abbāsids, and indeed, the subject of 'Abbāsid propaganda activities hardly seems to be a prominent one in this volume.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , April 1993 , pp. 1 - 31
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A review article of The History of al-Ṭabarī (Ta'rīkh al-rusul wa'l-mulūk), volume xxv, The End of Expansion, translated by Khalid Yahya Blankinship (Albany, State University of New York Press, 1989). While not wishing to involve them in responsibility for the contents of my paper, I would like to express my gratitude to Dr G. H. A. Juynboll and Professor Wadād al-Qāḍt for the opportunities I have had to discuss certain points with them, and in particular to Professor A. F. L. Beeston and Dr Michael Lecker for their careful reading of and comments upon the whole of my text.

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33 For a very clear account of what this stratagem was used to achieve, see al-Ṭabarī, ii, 1479:9–10.

34 Cf. al-Ṭabarī, ii, 1523:8–9.

35 Glossarium, p. 328.

36 See Azarpay, Guitty, Sogdian Painting: the Pictoral Epic in Oriental Art (Los Angeles and Berkeley, 1981),Google Scholar Plates 4, 5, 26.

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76 Êrânšahr, p. 302.

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80 See al-Ṭabarī, ii, 1924:4, 1925:6, 1971:3.

81 See El 2, v, 572a (G.H.A. Juynboll), to the references of which may be added the illustrative passages in al-Mubarrad, , Al-Kāmil fī l-lughah wa-l-adab, edited by Wright, William (Leipzig, 1864–1892), pp. 595:10–11, 605:1.Google Scholar

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86 Glossarium, p. 163.

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91 Khallikān, Ibn, Wafayāt al-a‘yān, edited by Abbās, Iḥsān (Beirut, 1969–1972), ii,Google Scholar 229:6–9—wa-dhakara al-Ṭabarī fīta'īkhihi; also the parallel in Asākir, Ibn, Ta'rīkh madīnat Dimashq (Amman, 1988), v,Google Scholar 501:19–23.

92 See Hishām, Ibn, Sīrat Rasül Allāh, edited by al-Saqqā, Muṣṭafā, al-Ibyārī, Ibrāhīm, and ‘Shalabī, Abd al-Ḥafīຓ (Cairo, 1355/1937), iv,Google Scholar 338:7–8; al-Wāqidī, , Kitāb al-maghāzī, ii,Google Scholar 626:13–14 (for these two references I am grateful to Michael Lecker); Abū ‘Ubayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām, Kitāb al-amthāl, edited with the commentary of Ubayd al-Bakrī, Abū, Faṣl al-maqāl fī sharḥ kitāb at-amthāl, by Iḥsān ‘Abbās and ‘Abd al-Majīd ‘Ābidīh (Beirut, 1401/1981),Google Scholar p. 125:6.

93 See al-Ṭabarī, ii, 1688:15, 1868:17.

94 Ibid., ii, 1566:5, 1662:5, 1989:8. Cf. also the references to this man in Akhbār al-dawlah al-‘abbāsīyah, edited by ‘, Abd al-‘Azīz al-Dūrī and ‘al-Muṭṭalibī, Abd al-Jabbār (Beirut, 1971), pp.Google Scholar 286:16, 287:17.

95 The following list does not include the emendations published in the Leiden corrigenda or in the notes to the English translation. Names in parentheses indicate the sources for those emendations to be found in other publications or suggested to the author by colleagues.