Chronicle of Khuzistan

Title(s):
  • Chronicle of Khuzistan
  • ܫܖ̈ܒܐ ܡܕܡ ܡܢ ܩܠܣ̈ܣܛܝܩܐ ܗܢܘ ܕܝܢ ܬܫܥ̈ܝܬܐ ܥܕܬܢܝ̈ܬܐ ܘܕܩܘܣܡܘ̈ܣܛܝܩܐ ܗܢܘ ܕܝܢ ܬܫ̈ܥܝܬܐ ܥܠܡܢܝ̈ܬܐ ܕܡܢ ܡܘܬܗ ܕܗܘܪܡܝܙܕ ܒܪ ܟܘܣܪܘ ܆ ܘܥܕܡܐ ܠܫܘܠܡ ܡܠܟܘܬܗܘܢ ܕܦܪ̈ܣܝܐ
    (šarbē medem men qlisisṭīqē honaw dēn taš‘yātā ‘idtānāyātā wa-d-qūsmūsṭīqē honaw dēn taš‘yātā ‘ālmānāyātā d-men mawteh d-hūrmīzd bar kūsrū w-‘admā l-šūlām malkūthūn d-pārsāyē, Some stories from the ecclesiastical histories, namely the histories of the church, and the universals, namely the histories of the world, from the death of Hormizd the son of Kushraw to the end of the reign of the Persians)
  • Chronicon anonymum Guidi
  • Khuzistan chronicle
Period covered:
Hormizd IV (579-590)-author's time (ca. 652)
Language:
Syriac
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Chronicle (narrative chronicle)
  • Chronicle (chronica)
  • Ecclesiastical history
  • Form (compilation)
Remarks:
Nautin (1982) has suggested that the text is actually the last portion of the lost ecclesiastical history ascribed by the sources to Elias of Merw. This identification is deemed farfetched by Brock (1996-2008) and Hoyland (1997), but is followed by Wood (2013: 183).
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Bibliography:
  • S. Brock (1996-2008) 'Guidi's Chronicle'. In: Encyclopaedia Iranica 11.4: 383.
  • M. Debié (2015) L'écriture de l'histoire en syriaque: Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et Islam (Late antique history and religion, 12). Leuven - Paris - Bristol: 611-613.
  • J. Howard-Johnston (2006) 'Al-Tabari on the last great war of antiquity'. In: East Rome, Sasanian Persia and the end of antiquity: Historiographical and historical studies, ed. J. Howard-Johnston. Aldershot: vi.
  • J. Howard-Johnston (2011) Witnesses to a world crisis: Historians and histories of the Middle East in the seventh century. Oxford: 128-137.
  • R. Hoyland (1997) Seeing Islam as others saw it: A survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian writings on early Islam (Studies in Late Antiquity and early Islam, 13). Princeton: 182-189.
  • F. Jullien (2010) ‘La chronique du Ḥūzistān: Une page d’histoire sassanide’. In: Trésors d’Orient: Mélanges offerts à Rika Gyselen, ed. P. Gignoux - C. Jullien - F. Jullien (Studia Iranica: Cahiers, 42). Paris: 159-186.
  • P. Nautin (1982) 'L'auteur de la Chronique Anonyme de Guidi: Élie de Merw'. Revue de l'histoire des religions 199: 303-313.
  • C.F. Robinson (2004) 'The conquest of Khuzistan: A historiographical reassessment'. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 67: 14-39.
  • P. Wood (2013) The Chronicle of Seert: Christian historical imagination in late antique Iraq. Oxford: 183-184, 211-213.