تاريخ ساساني در شاخص هاي تاريخ نويسي اسلامي

Sasanid History in Major Islamic Historiography Sources

Among different groups of sources on Sasanid history, the writings of Islamic classic authors, though compiled in the later centuries after Sasanid, are of great importance, due to their access to the original texts and sources of that period. After Ibn-e Vazeh Yaʹqobi, Tabari developed the first general history in Islamic history. which was the most famous Islamic general history. After him, most of the information in Islamic general histories, except those exclusive of the Tabariʹs subject and time have been based on his materials. But among other Islamic general histories, the compilations of Masʹodi and Ibn-Asir are of Islamic historiography characteristics due to the content and manner of historiographies. The attitude and the styles of these historians and identification of sources and authorities are considered important criteria to evaluate and criticize the content of their work. This article attempts to consider the sources, the orginal news and reports, about Sassanid while investigating their attitude, styles and standing in Islamic historiography about Sasanid. The variety of references of Sasanid history in Tabari and Masʹodiʹs manuscript, different reports concerning different cultural, political, social and ethnical trends with different approaches to the history of this period is a considerable subject in verifying Sasanid history in the writings of these authors. Although lbn-e Asir has presented Sasanid history based on Tabariʹs reports, his history indicates the result of a verification process and saying selection, due to its refining and elimination of parallel and contradictory reports.