Arabic and Persian Sources for Pre-Islamic Arabia

Abstract

This chapter illustrates how authors, writing mostly after the advent of Islam, explained and presented some of the events, individuals, and themes covered in Chapters 1–7. In addition to discussing some well-known authors such as al-Ṭabarī, this chapter also offers a translation and commentary of an eleventh-century text, the Manāqib al-Mazyadiyya, detailing the demise of the final Naṣrid ruler, alongside a consideration of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, medieval Persian sources, and the Qurʾān.

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