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The king Kay Qobâd (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) King lists 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.11 Historiography 05.11.02 Historiographic texts 05.11.02.03 King lists	Keywords Babylonia Kay Kaus kings
Period 9th century CE 11th century CE Abbasid Empire	Channel Islamic philosophers and scholars

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The Persian dynasty called the Kayânians were according to a popular opinion the powerful kings of the Neo-Babylonian empire.

al-Dīnawarī, Histories 13.3-4 (Guirgass):
Kay Qobâd was king of the land of Babil and all kings of the earth submitted to Kay Qobâd.

al-Bīrūnī, Chronology 87.3ff. (ed. Sachau):
The Kayânians are the kings of Babylon, known among the western peoples as Chaldeans.

Sources (list of abbreviations)
al-Bīrūnī, Chronology 87.3ff. (ed. Sachau)
al-Dīnawarī, Histories 13.3-4 (Guirgass)

Bibliography

Lewy 1949, 29-30

Lewy, Hildegard. “The Babylonian Background of the Kay Kâûs Legend.” Archiv Orientální 17 (1949) 28-107.

Amar Annus

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