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The History of the Prophets and Kings (Persian: تاریخ طبری , Arabic: تاريخ الرسل والملوك Tarikh al-Rusul wa al-Muluk, popularly known Tarikh al-Tabari) is a historical chronicle written by Persian author and historian Ibn Jarir al-Tabari d. Generally a chronicle (chronica from Greek (from) is a historical account of facts and events in chronological order layout and formatting it should ensure no clashes with the top of the infobox Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838-923 أبو جعفر محمد بن جرير الطبري was one of the earliest most prominent and famous Persian Historians 310H (838-923) from the Creation to AD 915, and is renowned for its detail and accuracy concerning Muslim and Middle Eastern history. Muslim history began in Arabia with the Muhammad 's first recitations of the Qur'an in the 7th century See also Timeline of Middle Eastern history This article is a general overview of the history of the Middle East.

Contents

Editions

Various editions of the Annals include:

Here is the list of titles for the 40-volume edition:

Content

The introduction states:

Let the reader be aware that whatever I mention in my book is relied on the news that were narrated by some men. I had attributed these stories to their narrators, without inferring anything from their incidents . . . [2].
If a certain man gets horrified by a certain incident that we reported in our book, then let him know that it did not come from us, but we only wrote down what we received from the narrators [3]

The main purpose of Tabari was to write history according to the science of narration. That is to say he quotes the narrator without interfering in anyway.

Among its content can be found:

See also

List of Sunni books

References

  1. ^ SUNY Press :: History of al-Tabari
  2. ^ [Tarikh Al-Tabari, 1/7-8]
  3. ^ [Tarikh Al-Tabari, 1/8]. Hadith collections Primary sources Sahih al-Bukhari of Muhammad al-Bukhari Sahih Muslim of Muslim ibn

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