The Journal of the American Oriental Society, April 1st, 1996
This book has its origin in a series of lectures given by Professor Bosworth at Columbia University. He is no stranger to the history of the Saffarids. His article on the armies of the Saffarids appeared in 1968, and in the same year he laid the groundwork for the present history with his monograph, Sistan under the Arabs, from the Islamic Conquest to the Rise of the Saffarids. More recently, he contributed the chapter on the Tahirids and Saffarids in the Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 4 (1975). In the book under review, Bosworth has brought everything together into what Professor Yarshater...
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