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A local historian's debt to al- Tabari: The case of al-Azdi's Ta'rikh al-Mawsil.(Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Yazid ibn Muhammad al-Azdi)(Critical essay)
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The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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October 1, 2006
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In 1969 Paul Forand published in this journal the results of his reading of Yazid ibn Muhammad al-Azdi's Ta'rikh al-Mawsil, which was at this point only available to him on a film of the Chester Beatty manuscript. (1) Although chiefly interested in reconstructing some of the administrative history of the city during the late Umayyad and early Abbasid period, Forand concluded with some historiographic comparisons, principally between al-Azdi and his more celebrated Mosuli successor 'IZZ al-Din Ibn al-Athir. He also had something to say about al-Azdi and his contemporary, al-Tabari. Noting that al-Azdi's isnads often begin with the same authorities cited by al-Tabari in his ...
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