The Histories of Isfahan
Mafarrukhi's Kitāb Maḥāsin Iṣfahān
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9978627 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jürgen Paul (0000-0002-9325-8363, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 117-132 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iranian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00210860008701978 |
| OpenAlex | W2017298292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
The history of Isfahan in the pre-Mongol period has not yet received its due measure of scholarly attention; the focus of research has tended to be on the seventeenth century, when Isfahan was the brilliant capital of the Safavid empire. Nonetheless, it is quite evident that the city was, in pre-Mongol times, no less brilliant a center of Islamic culture as articulated in both Arabic and Persian. No book-length study on the city's earlier history is known to me. This article does not aim to fill this gap, but to follow the theme of the present issue which is historiography rather than history. It focuses on the “history” of Isfahan written by Mufaddal b. Sacd b. al-Husayn al-Mafarrukhi al-Isfahani, Kitāb maḥāsin Iṣfahān.2 The work was written most probably between 1072 and 1092. Nothing is known about the author except that he came from a respected Isfahani family with many generations of learning and nobility behind it
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2020 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |