the_meadows_of_gold

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1、TheMeadowsofGold1TheMeadowsofGoldMeadowsofGoldandMinesofGemsAuthor(s)Al-MasudiTranslatorPaulLunde&CarolineStone,AloysSprengerCountryMedievalIraq,UnitedKingdomLanguageArabic,Translations:English,FrenchSubject(s)HistoryGenre(s)Non-fictionPublisherLunde&Stone:KeganPaulInternationalPublicationdateL&S

2、:1989MediatypePrint(Hardcover)ISBN0-7103-0246-0OCLCNumber23145342[1]DeweyDecimal909/.09767120LCClassificationDS38.6.M38131989MeadowsofGoldandMinesofGems(inArabicﻣﺮﻭﺝﺍﻟﺬﻫﺐﻭﻣﻌﺎﺩﻥﺍﻟﺠﻮﻫﺮtransliteration:Murujadh-dhahabwama'adinal-jawahir)isanhistoricalaccountinArabicofthebeginningoftheworldstartingwit

3、hAdamandEveuptoandthroughthelateAbbasidCaliphatebymedievalBaghdadihistorianMasudi(inArabicﺍﻟﻤﺴﻌﻮﺩﻱ).OneEnglishversionistheabridgedTheMeadowsofGold:TheAbbasids,translatedandeditedbyPaulLundeandCarolineStone.An1841translationofvolumeI,byAloysSprenger,alsoexistsandisavailableatPrinceton'sFirestoneLi

4、brary.Afirstversionofthebookwasallegedlycompletedintheyear947ADbuttheauthorspentmostofhislifeaddingandeditingtheworkaswell.[2]ThefirstEuropeanversionofTheMeadowsofGoldwaspublishedinbothFrenchandArabicbetween1861and1877bytheSocieteAsiatiqueofParisbyBarbierdeMeynardandPavetdeCourteille.Forover100ye

5、arsthisversionwasthestandardversionusedbyWesternscholarsuntilCharlesPellatpublishedaFrenchrevisionbetween1966and1974.ThisrevisionwaspublishedbytheUniversiteLibanaiseinBeirutandconsistedoffivevolumes.[3]VersionsofthesourcetextbyMas'udihavebeenpublishedinArabicforhundredsofyears,mainlyfrompressesop

6、eratinginEgyptandLebanon.OneEnglishversionwaspublishedin1989andwastranslatedandeditedbyPaulLundeandCarolineStone.Accordingtothisedition'sintroduction,theirEnglishtranslationisheavilyeditedandcontainsonlyafragmentoftheoriginalmanuscriptduetotheeditors'ownpersonalresearchinterestsandfocusesalmostex

7、clusivelyontheAbbasidhistoryofMas'udi.TheirintroductionalsooutlineshowtheeditorsreliedmainlyonthePellatrevisioninFrenchandarethereforemainlyworkingfromtheFrenchtranslationwiththeArabicsourcetextasabackgroundguide.[4]An