al-Ḥusaynī, Ṣadr al-Dīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Durand-Guédy, David
Leiden
Brill
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Ṣadr al-Dīn Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Abī l-Fawāris Nāṣir b. ʿAlī l-Ḥusaynī was the sixth/twelfth-century Iranian author of an Arabic chronicle of the Saljūqs and the Ildegizid (Ildeñizid, Eldigüzid) atābak s ( atabeg s). His work has come down to us in an abridged version known conventionally as Akhbār al-dawla al-saljūqiyya . This chronicle, divided into forty-one chapters, tells the history of the Saljūq Turks and their servants, from the origins of the dynasty in fourth/tenth-century Central Asia to the death