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Persian historiography to the end of the twelfth century. By Julie Scott Meisami. (Islamic Surveys). pp. 319. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1999.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , November 2000 , pp. 397 - 399
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References

1 Meisami, J. S., “Why write history in Persian? Historical writing in the Samanid period”, in Hillenbrand, C. ed., Studies in honour of Clifford Edmund Bosworth 2 – The Sultan's turret (Leiden, 2000), pp. 348–74Google Scholar.

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