C. E Bosworth - New Islamic Dynasties

The new Islamic dynasties

The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys

Series Editor: Carole Hillenbrand

TITLES AVAILABLE OR FORTHCOMING

The New Islamic Dynasties Clifford Edmund Bosworth

Media Arabic Julia Ashtiany Bray

An Introducion to the Hadith John Burton

A History of Islamic Law Noel Coulson

A Short History of the Ismailis Farhad Daftary

Islam: An Historical Introduction (2nd Edition) Gerhad Endress

A History of Christian-Muslim Relations Hugh Goddard

Shiism (2nd Edition) Heinz Halm

Islamic Science and Engineering Donald Hill

Islamic Law: From Historical Foundations to Contemparary Practice Mawil Izzi Dien

Sufism: An Historical Introduction Ahmet T. Karamustafa

Islamic Aesthetics Oliver Leaman

Persian Histrography Julie Scott Meisami

The Muslim of Medieval Italy Alex metcalfe

Muslim in Western Europe (3rd Edition) Jrgen Nielson

Medieval Islamic Medicine Peter Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith

Islamic Jurisprudence Kevin Reinhart and Aron Zysow

Islamic Names Annemarie Schimmel

Mordern Arabic Literature Paul Starkey

Islamic Medicine Manfred Ullman

Islam and Ecnomics Ibrahim Warde

A History of Islamic Spain W. Montgomery Watt and Pierre Cachia

Inroduction to the Quran W. Montgomery Watt

Islamic Creeds W. Montgomery Watt

Islamic Philosophy and Thelogy W. Montgomery Watt

Islamic Practical Thought W. Montgomery Watt

Understanding the Quran Alford Welch

The new Islamic
dynasties

A chronological and
genealogical manual

CLIFFORD EDMUND BOSWORTH

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Clifford Edmund Bosworth, 1996

Transferred to digital print 2012

Edinburgh University Press Ltd
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ISBN 0 7486 2137 7 (paperback)
eISBN 9780748696482

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CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS USED

INTRODUCTION

The precursor of this present book, The Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Handbook, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 1967 as no. 5 in the Islamic Surveys series, and speedily established itself as a convenient reference work for the chronology of Islamic dynasties of the Middle Eastern and North African heartlands and of Central and South Asia and for their historical backgrounds. It has proved useful not only for Islamic historians but also for Islamic art historians and numismatists. Nevertheless, all these groups of scholars remain much less well provided with such Hilfsmittel as chronologies of events, genealogical tables, historical atlases, etc., than their colleagues in the fields of British or European history. sometimes not.

To my knowledge, four translations into East European and Middle Eastern languages have been made. In 1971, there appeared in Moscow an authorised translation by P. A. Gryaznevich, under the overall editorship of I. P. Petrushevskiy, Musulmanskie dynastii. Spravochnik po khronologii i genealogii, Izdatelstvo Nauka Glavnaya Redaktsiya Vostochnoi Literatur, 324 pp., to which I contributed a Preface. The text is a straight translation, but the bibliographical indications at the end of each dynastys entry have been enriched by references to works in Russian, obviously valuable for such regions as the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Iranian world in general. In 1980, there appeared in Istanbul