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This book provides a comprehensive and reliable reference source for all students of history and culture. It lists by name the rulers of all the principal Islamic dynasties with Hijri and Common Era dates. Each dynastic list is followed by a brief assessment of its historical significance, and by a short bibliography.

During the twelfth century Zahir al-Din Nishapuri wrote a succinct history in Persian of the tribal group the Seljuq Turks. This annotated translation of Nishapuri's Seljuq-nama introduces a new series of translated historical texts. číst celé