Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

4/1/1987 - 3/31/1991

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$266,410.00 (approved)
$236,410.00 (awarded)


Tabari Translation Project

FAIN: RL-21039-87

Columbia University (New York, NY 10027-7922)
Ehsan O. Yarshater (Project Director: June 1986 to September 1991)

This project also received funding with the renewal award listed below.

Subsequent award (renewal) RL-21837-91

To support the translation and annotation of al-Tabari's account of universal history to 915 A.D. This text is the most complete source on medieval Islamic thought and historiography.