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1. Persian Historiography

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   The Islamic Synthesis: Arabicization and Persian Revival
   The Arab conquest fundamentally altered the trajectory of Persian historiography. Initially, historical writing shifted toward Arabic, adopting Islamic frameworks such as the sira (biography of the Prophet) and maghāzī (records of military campaigns). Major figures like Al-Tabari, though writing in Arabic, incorporated significant Iranian material, often filtered through Pahlavi translations.
   The Persian literary revival, known as the Shuʿūbiyya movement, spurred the reasser…