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Al-Mukhtaá¹£ar min KitÄb al-siyÄq li-tÄrÄ«kh-i NÄ«sÄbÅ«r
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In the Islamic middle ages, urban histories were for the most part not the kind of chronicle that one might think, covering the political, economic, or cultural history of a particular city over a certain time. Instead, they were a kind of âwhoâs whoâ directory of names of a cityâs prominent inhabitants, mostly from as far back as information would be available until the lifetime of the author. In the case of the city of Nishapur, which saw its greatest blossoming between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, there is al-ḤÄkim al-NÄ«shÄpÅ«rÄ«âs (d. 405/1014) foundational TaʾrÄ«kh NÄ«sÄbÅ«r, an Arabic workânow lostâon which many later biographers relied. Al-ḤÄkimâs work was continued by Ê¿Abd al-GhÄfir al-FÄrisÄ« (d. 529/1134) in his al-SiyÄq li-TaʾrÄ«kh NÄ«sÄbÅ«r. The text published here is described as a partial summary of al-FÄrisÄ«âs work, although Frye in his The Histories of Nishapur (p. 10) still regarded it as a fragment of the SiyÄq itself.