A medieval local history of Balkh | Invisible East

Balkh is one of the most illustrious cities of the Islamicate East, and yet we know very little about life in the city during the first five centuries of Islam (8th-13th centuries CE). The Faḍāʾil-i Balkh, the oldest surviving local history of Balkh, changes that.

20 April 2021

For details on UK launch here and on US launch here.

Faḍāʾil-i Balkh or the Merits of Balkh:

Annotated translation with commentary and introduction of the oldest surviving history of Balkh in Afghanistan

by Arezou Azad; Edmund Herzig; Ali Mir-Ansari

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See here for more information and to purchase a copy.

See here for BBC Persian coverage of the book.

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