TY - JOUR
T1 - The Christian reception of the Xwadāy-nāmag
T2 - Hormizd IV, Khusrau II and their successors
AU - Wood, Philip
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Royal Asiatic Society 2016.
PY - 2016/3/16
Y1 - 2016/3/16
N2 - This article considers the Islamic-era sources that report the history of the last Sasanian kings. It focuses on scenes that seem to indicate Christian influence and asks what this tells us about Christian transmission of the Middle Persian royal histories and about the position of Christians in the empire more broadly. In particular, it discusses three scenes from al-T. abar¯ı: his presentation of Hormizd IV as a 'pluralist' monarch; the changing attitudes of Christians to Khusrau II and the presentation of Khusrau's short-lived successors.
AB - This article considers the Islamic-era sources that report the history of the last Sasanian kings. It focuses on scenes that seem to indicate Christian influence and asks what this tells us about Christian transmission of the Middle Persian royal histories and about the position of Christians in the empire more broadly. In particular, it discusses three scenes from al-T. abar¯ı: his presentation of Hormizd IV as a 'pluralist' monarch; the changing attitudes of Christians to Khusrau II and the presentation of Khusrau's short-lived successors.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051956868&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S1356186315000528
DO - 10.1017/S1356186315000528
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85051956868
SN - 1356-1863
VL - 26
SP - 407
EP - 422
JO - Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
JF - Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
IS - 3
ER -