Baloch, N.A. Fathnamah-I Sind. Being the Original Record of the Arab Conquest of Sind. Known later by such other names as ‘History of Dahar son of Chach’, Tarikh-i-Hind wa Sind’, ‘Tarikh-i-Fath-i Sind alias Chachnama’, Minhaj al Mansalik alias Chachnama’, Tarikh-i Qasimi’ or simply as ‘Chachnama’. Persian Text. Edited with Introduction, Notes and Commentary by N.A. Baloch. Islamabad, Pakistan, Institute of Islamic History, Culture and Civilization, 1983. Large Octavo. xii, 158 pages [Introduction and Commentary] followed by c. 200 pages in Persian. Folding map plus one Plate. Original dark blue cloth. Hard cover. Inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Provenance: From the Library of Kenneth Nicholls.

Kenneth W. Nicholls (1934 – 25 May 2025) was an Irish academic and historian, notable for his work on the late medieval and early modern period. He was the subject of a festschrift in 2014.
Nicholls worked at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies for a period during the 1960s. He was a member of staff of the history department in University College Cork until his retirement in 2004. He came to national and international prominence as the author of Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages, first published in 1972, and reprinted in 2003. He was particularly regarded among his peers for his deep knowledge of late medieval and early modern historical sources in the Irish, Latin, French and English languages.

• Keywords: Classical & Old Literature · History · History & Culture · Language · Middle East & Asia · Reference · Reference · Religion
• Language: English & Persian
• Dust Jacket
• Inventory Number: 104827AB

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