Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Politics, religion and culture in the late Samanid state; 2 The transmission of the Tarikhnama's text; 3 Balami's reshaping of Tabari's History; 4 The contents and purpose of Balami's alterations to Tabari's History; 5 The Tarikhnama after Balami; 6 General conclusions; Appendix I: Comparison of postulated redactions of the Tarikhnama; Appendix II: Comparison of the Arabic translation of the Tarikhnama and the Persian text
Appendix III: Addenda and corrigenda to Daniel's 'An Annotated Inventory of Balami Manuscripts'Bibliography; Subject index; Manuscript index
Summary
Using newly discovered manuscripts, this study sheds much new light not just on mediaeval Islamic history and the development of Islamic historiography but also on manuscripts and the transmission of their texts
