This is the bibliography to my doctoral thesis. It is an almost exhaustive list of the principal sources for Sasanian history.

Primary Sources

Acta Martyrum        P. Bedjan (ed.), Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, Tom. IV. Harrasowitz, Leipzig, 1894.

Agathias                     Agathias Scholasticus, Historiarum libri quinque: Recensuit Rudolfus Key- dell. Brill, Leiden, 1967.

Aḫbār ʿUbayd         ʿ Ubayd Ibn Šarya / E. W. Crosby, The History, Poetry, and Genealogy of the Yemen: The Akhbar of Abid b. Sharya Al-                                                   Jurhumi, Gorgias Press, Piscataway, 2007 [a facsimile of the Heyderabad edition is found on p. 203–384 of Crosby’s book.                                            References to the Aḫbār ʿUbayd refer to the pagination of the Heyderabad edition, 311–592.]

Ammianus                  Ammianus Marcellinus, Ammianus Marcellianus 2. The Loeb Classical Li brary, 315, Harvard University Press, Cambridge                                                Massachussetts, 1986.

Ananias                        Ananias of Shirak / R. H. Hewsen, The Geography of Ananias of Širak: Ašxarhac‘oyc‘, the Long and the Short Recension                                                (Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Borderen Orients, Nr. 77), Reichert, Wiesbaden, 1992.

Ardašīr                         Firdawsī / Dj. Khāleghī-Motlagh, M. Omīdsālār, M., and A. Khatībī (eds.), Šāhnāmah. Volume 6, Bibliotheca Persica, New                                         York, p. 193–238.

Aškānīān                     Firdawsī / Dj. Khāleghī-Motlagh, M. Omīdsālār, M., and A. Khatībī (eds.), Šāhnāmah. Volume 6, Bibliotheca Persica, New                                         York, p. 133–189.

Balāš                              Firdawsī / Dj. Khāleghī-Motlagh, M. Omīdsālār, M., and A. Khatībī (eds.), Šāhnāmah. Volume 7, Bibliotheca Persica, New                                         York, p. 31–47.

Balʿamī                           Ṭabarī, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammed Ibn Muḥammad / Balʿamī / Hermann Zotenberg. Chronique de Abou Djafar-Moʻhammed-                                            ben Djarir-ben-Yezid Ṭabarī, v. I, G.P. Maisonneuve, Paris, 1958.

Bahman Yašt                Bahman Yašt in F. Max Müller (ed.) The Sacred Books of the East v. I, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1900, p. 215–230.

Book of the Bee           E. A. T. W. Budge, The Book of the Bee: the Syriac Text Edited from the Manu scripts in London, Oxford, and Munich,                                              with an English Translation. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1886.

Bundahišn                      Zand-ākāsīh: Iranian or Greater Bundahishn (ed. Anklesaria), Bombay, 1956.

Chinese Annals              L. Mau-Tsai, Die Chinesischen Nachrichten zur Geschichte der Ost-Türken (T’u- küe), Wiesbaden, 1958.

Chronicle to 1234         Anonymi Auctoris Chronicon ad Annum Christi 1234 pertinens (ed. J.-B. Chabot), J. Gabalda, Paris, 1920.

Chronicle of Seert I        Patrologia Orientalis, Tome VII. Fascicule 2: Histoire Nestorienne (Chronique de Séert) Seconde Partie (1) Pupliée [sic] et                                             traduite par Mgr Addaï Sch er, Firmin-Didot, Paris, 1950.

Ḍaḥḥāk                    Firdawsī / Dj. Khāleghī-Motlagh, M. Omīdsālār, M., and A. Khatībī (eds.), Šāhnāmah. Volume 1, Bibliotheca Persica, New                                                 York,1988, p. 55–86.

Daryaee 2002          T. Daryaee, Šahrestānīhā-ī Ērānšahr: A Middle Persian Text on Late Antique Geog raphy, Epic, and History, Mazda Publishers,                                     Costa Mesa, 2002.

Dārā                        Firdawsī and Dj. Khāleghī-Motlagh, M. Omīdsālār, M., and A. Khatībī (eds.), Šāhnāmah. Volume 5, Bibliotheca Persica, New                                         York, p. 529–565.

Dasxuranc‘i         The History of the Caucasian Albanians by Movsēs Dasxuranc‘i (trans. C. J. F. Dowsett), Oxford University Press, London, 1961.

Dīnawarī                Dīnawarī, Abū Ḥanīfa Aḥmad / W. Guirgass, and I. Kratchkovsky (eds.), Kitāb al-Akhbār al-Tiwāl, Leiden, Brill, 1888.

Dīnawarī 1960       Dīnawarī, Abū Ḥanīfa Aḥmad / ʿAbd al-Munʿim ʿĀmir (ed.), Kitāb al- Aḫbār al-Ṭiwāl, Wazārat al-Ṯaqāfa w’al-Iršād al-Qawmī,                                         al-Iqlīm al- Janūbī, Al-Idārah al-ʿĀmma l’il-Ṯaqāfa, 1960.

Ełiše                          Ełiše, The History of Vardan and the Armenian War: a Facsimile Reproduction of the 1957 Yerevan Edition with an Introduction                                         by R. W. Thomson, Caravan Books, New York, 1993.

Eusebius                  Eusebius, The Ecclesiastical History 1. The Loeb Classical Library, 153, Har vard University Press, Cambridge, Massachussetts, 1953.

Eutychius                  Eutychius / M. Breydy (ed., trans.), Das Annalenwerk des Euthychios von Alexandrien: Ausgewälte Geschichten und Legenden                                         kompiliert von Sa’id ibn Batriq um 935 A.D. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 471–2 (Scriptores Arabici 44–                                        5)), Louvain, 1985.

Fihrist                          Ibn Nadim, Kitab al-Fihrist l-il-Nadim (ed. Reza-Tajaddod b. ‘Ali b. Zayn al-‘Abadin al-Ha’iri al-Mazandarani. Tehran, 1971.

Herodotus                     Herodotus, Historiae Tomus Prior (ed. C. Hude), Oxford, 1947.

Ḥamza                          Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī and I. M. E. Gottwaldt, Hamzae Ispahanensis annalium lib- ri X. Petropoli: In commissis apud Leopoldum                                             Voss, 1844.

Hurmazd                   Firdawsī / Dj. Khāleghī-Motlagh, M. Omīdsālār, M., and A. Khatībī (eds.), Šāhnāmah. Volume 7, Bibliotheca Persica, New                                                 York, p. 465–629.

Chronicle of Ḫūzistān I.             Guidi (ed.), Scriptores Syri, Tomus 1: Chronica Minora, Cor- pus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Louvain,                                                                 1960, p. 15–39.

Hymn of the Pearl                        J. Ferreira (ed.), The Hymn of the Pearl: the Syriac and Greek Texts: with Introduc tion, Translations, and Notes                                                                         (Early Christian Studies, 3), St Pauls, Sydney, 2002.

Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih                         Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih, al-‘Iqd al-Farid (ed. Mufir Muhammad Qamiha) v. I Dar al-Kutub al-‘ilmiya Beirut, 1987.

Ibn Azraq                                          ʿAbū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Azraq, Ta’rīḫ Mayyāfāriqīn, Ms. BL Or. 5803.

Ibn Miskawayh                 Ibn Miskawayh and L. Caetani (ed.), The Tajârib Al-Umam, or History, of Ibn Miskawayh (Abu ‘Ali Ahmad B.                                                                         Muhammad) Ob. A.H. 421. Reproduced in Fac simile from the MS. at Constantinople in the Ayâ Sûfiyya Library. Brill,                                                             Leiden, 1909.

Ibn Qutayba              Ibn Quṭayba, and S. Okacha. Kitāb al-Ma‘ārif: Edition critique avec introduc tion [également en français] sur l’auteur par Saroite                                         Okacha, Maṭba‘at Dār al- kutub, Le Caire, 1960.

Iskandar                          Firdawsī and Dj. Khāleghī-Motlagh, M. Omīdsālār, M., and A. Khatībī (eds.), Šāhnāmah. Volume 6, Bibliotheca Persica, New                                             York, p. 3–129.

Kałankatwac‘i                 M. Kałankatwac‘i / V. D. Ałak‘elani, Patmut‘iun Ałuanic‘ Ašxarhi, Yerevan, 1983.

Kārnāmag                         F. Grenet, La geste d’Ardashir fils de Pâbag. Kārnāmag ī Ardaxšēr ī Pābagān, Die, 2003.

Łazar                                  Łazar P‘arpets‘i / D. Kouymjian. History of the Armenians and The letter to Vahan Mamikonean : a photographic                                                                     reproduction of the 1904 Tiflis edition, Delmar, N.Y. : Caravan Books, 1987.

Malalas                              J. Malalas / H. Thurn, Ioannis Malalae Chronographia, De Gruyter, New York, 2000.

Mar Aba                          P. Bedjan (ed.), “Vita Abae,”Histoire de Mar-Jabalaha, de trois autres patriarches, d’un prêtre et de deux laïques, nestoriens,                                                 Harrasowitz, Leipzig, 1895, p. 206– 274.

Masʿūdī 1                    Masʿūdī, Murj al-Dhahab, (Edition Barbier de Meynard et Pavet de Courteille revue et corrigée par Charles Pellat) Tome Premier,                                           Publications de l’Université Libanaise, Beyrouth, 1966.

Masʿūdī 2                     Masʿūdī, Murj al-Dhahab, (Edition Barbier de Meynard et Pavet de Courteille revue et corrigée par Charles Pellat) Tome Second,                                         Publications de l’Université Libanaise, Beyrouth, 1966.

Menander Protector                     Menander Protector / R. C. Blockley (ed.), The History of Menander the Guardsman: Introductory Essay, Text,                                                                         Translation and Historiographical Notes, Cairns, Liverpool, 1985.

Nihāya                          Nihāyat al-Irab fī Aḫbār al-Furs wa al-ʿArab (ed. Dāneš-Pažūh), Anjoman-e Āṯār-o Mofāḫer-e Farhangī, Tehran, [A.H.] 1375.

Nōšīn-Ravān            Firdawsī / Dj. Khāleghī-Motlagh, M. Omīdsālār, M., and A. Khatībī (eds.), Šāhnāmah. Volume 7, Bibliotheca Persica, New                                                 York, 1987, p. 87–652.

Pērōz                            Firdawsī / Dj. Khāleghī-Motlagh, M. Omīdsālār, M., and A. Khatībī (eds.), Šāhnāmah. Volume 7, Bibliotheca Persica, New                                                 York, 1987, p. 15–27.

Pliny, N. H.              Pliny, Natural History: Books III-VII (trans H. Rackham, ed. E. H. Warm ington), The Loeb Classical Library, Harvard                                                            University Press, Cam bridge, Mass., 1969.

Photius                          Photius / R. Henry (ed.), Bibliothèque de Photius: Codices 1–83, t. 1. Soc. d’Édition “Les Belles Lettres”, Paris, 2003.

Procopius                    Procopius, History of the Wars [Bellum Persicum (books I and II) and Bel- lum Gothicum (book VIII)], Harvard University                                                 Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2006.

Pseudo-Joshua             The Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite, Composed in Syriac, A.D. 507, with a Translation into English and Notes. Cambridge:                                                 University Press, 1882.

Qubād                            Firdawsī / Dj. Khāleghī-Motlagh, M. Omīdsālār, M., and A. Khatībī (eds.), Šāhnāmah. Volume 7, Bibliotheca Persica, New                                                 York, 1987, p. 51–83.

Šāhnāma Preface                         V. Minorsky, “The Older Preface to the “Shāh-nāma”,” Studi Orientalistici in onore de Giorgio Levi della Vida, v. II,                                                                 Instituto per L’Oriente, Rome, 1956, p. 159–179.

Sebeos                                      Sebeos / G. V. Abgaryan (ed.), Patmut’iun Sebeosi, Yerevan, 1979.

Sīrat Ānūšīrwān                 M. Grignaschi, “Quelques Spécimens de la littérature sassanide conservé dans les bibliothèques d’Istanbul,” in Journal                                                             Asiatique, vol. 254, 1966, p. 1–142.

Ṭabarī                                  Ṭabarī, and M.J. de Goeje. Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Ṭabarī, Brill, Lugduni Batavorum,                                                     1893.

Tacitus, Annals                 Tacitus, Annales Livres IV-VI (ed. P. Wuilleumier), Société d’Édition “Les Belles Lettres,” Paris, 1975.

Theophanes                           Theophanes / C. Mango / R. Scott / G. Greatrex, The chronicle of Theophanes Confessor : Byzantine and Near Eastern                                                            history AD 284–813, Oxford, 1997.

Theophylact                          Theophylact Simocatta, Historiae (ed. C. de Boor), Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graeco rum et Romanorum Teubneriana,                                                                 Stuttgart, 1972.

Teaching of Addai                 G. Howard, The Teaching of Addai, Scholars Press, Chico (Calif.), 1981.

WČ                                          On the Explanation of Chess and Backgammon: Abar Wizarisn i Catrang us Nihisn New-Ardaxsir, T. Daryaee (ed.), Persian                                                 Text Series of Late Antiquity, Af- shar Publishing, Beverly Hills, 2010.

Xorenac‘i                          Moses Xorenac‘i, Patmut‘iwn Hayoc‘, (History of the Armenians): A facsimile repre oduction of the 1913 Tiflis Edition                                                 [(eds. M. Abełean / S. Yarut‘iwnean)] with an Introduction by Robert W. Thomson, Caravan Books, New York, 1981.

Yāqūt                Yāqūt, Kitāb al-Iršād al-Arīb ilā Maʿrifat al-Adīb (ed. D. S. Margoliouth), v. 1, E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series,1923.

Yazdgard-i Bazagar                 Firdawsī / Dj. Khāleghī-Motlagh, M. Omīdsālār, M., and A. Khatībī (eds.), Šāhnāmah. Volume 6, Bibliotheca Persica,                                                         New York, 2005, p. 341–411.

Zāmāsp Nāmak                     H.W. Bailey, “To the Zāmāsp Nāmak II” in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, volume 6, Issue 3, 1931,                                                     p. 581–600

Zend-Avesta                      The Zend-Avesta (trans. J. Darmesteter) in The Sacred Books of the East v. IV, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1900.

Zhou Annals                      “Histoire des Tscheou” in M. E. Specht, “Études sur l’Asie Centrale, d’après les histoires chinoises,” Journal Asiatique, 1883,                                                     p. 326–350.

Zoroastrianism                     P. D. Skjaervø (ed. trans.), The Spirit of Zoroastrianism, Yale University Press, London, 2011.

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Clark 1969 K. Clark, Civilisation: A Personal View, Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1969.

Crone 1991 P. Crone, “Qubād’s Heresy and Mazdak’s Revolt,” Iran, vol. 29, 1991, p. 21–42.

Crosby 2007 E. W. Crosby, The History, Poetry, and Genealogy of the Yemen: the Akhbar of Abid b. Sharya Al-Jurhumi, Gorgias Press, Piscataway, 2007.

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de Blois 2000 F. de Blois, “Dualism in Zoroastrian and Christian Traditions,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 10, 2000, p. 1–19.

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