The history of al-Ṭabarī = Taʼrīkh al-rusul wa'l mulūk translated and annotated by Franz Rosenthal.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Front Cover ; The History of al-Tabari: Editorial Board; The History of al-Tabari: Volume I; Copyright; Table of Contents; General Editor's Preface ; Acknowledgments ; General Introduction ; Translator's Foreword ; The Life and Works of al-Tabari; A Remark on the Sources; His Early Life ; His Fifty Years of Scholarly Activity in Baghdad ; The person; The scholar ; His Death ; His Works ; The History and Its English Translation; The History in Islam and the West; The Text ; Previous Translations ; Appendix A ; Appendix B ; From the Creation to the Flood ; Translator's Foreword

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate (Invocation) ; (Introduction) ; What Is Time? ; The Duration of the World ; The Proofs for the Origination of Momentary and Extended Time and Night and Day ; Whether God, before He Created Time and Night and Day, Created Any Other of the Created Things ; Explaining the Annihilation of Time and Night and Day and That Nothing Remains Except God ; The Proof for God Being Eternal and First before Everything and for His Originating Everything by His Power ; The Beginning of Creation: What Was Created First?

Those Who Put the Creation of the Pen in Second Place What God Created on Each of the Six Days on Which, as He Mentions in His Book, He Created the Heavens and the Earth and What Is between Them; Night and Day: Which Was Created before the Other? The Beginning of the Creation of the Sun and the Moon and a Description of Them, as Time Is Known Through Them; Those who said this ; (The Story of Iblis) ; First among the Ungrateful is Iblis, Their Guide (Imam), Their Leader, and Their Chief- May God Curse Him!

The Received Reports about the Control and Rule of Iblis over the Lower Heaven and the Earth and All in BetweenThe Ingratitude of the Enemy of God for His Lord's Favor, His Overbearance Toward God, and His Claiming Divine Lordship ; The Events That Took Place During the Days of the Royal Authority and Rule of the Accursed Iblis and the Reason Why He claimed Divine Authority and Perished; The Reason Why the Enemy of God Was Enticed to be Overbearing Toward His Lord and Thereby Perished ; (The Story of Adam) ; (Adam Is Taught All the Names) ; (God 's Testing of Adam)

The Duration of Adam's Stay in Paradise. The Moment He Was Created by God and That of His Fall from Heaven to Earth Caused by God The reports on the authority of the Messenger of God on this (subject) ; The Moment on Friday When God Created Adam and the One When Adam Was Cast Down to Earth ; The Place on Earth to Which Adam and Eve Came When They Were Cast Down ; (Perfumes, Fruits, and Other Things Adam Brought from Paradise) ; The Events That Took Place in Adam 's Time after He Was Cast Down to Earth ; Eve Giving Birth to Seth ; Adam 's Death ; (From Seth to Mahalalel)

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