Khuld-i barin

In the Islamic world, universal histories have been written almost from the very beginning. Among the Arabic works one could, for example, mention the Kitab akhbar al-rusul wal-muluk by Abu Ja?far al-Tabari (3rd/9th cent.), Ibn Miskawayh's (d. 421/1030) Kitab tajarib al-umam, or the Mukhtasar ta?rikh al-bashar by Abu 'l-Fida? (d. 732/1331). The first such history in New Persian was the abstract of...