A blog on Arezou Azad's latest title: The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids

In a new blog for Edinburgh University Press, 'Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids', our programme director Arezou Azad speaks about the latest title in The Islamicate East series: The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids is her annotated translation, written with Pejman Firoozbakhsh. These stories are taken from the Akhbār-i Barmakiyān, found in the manuscript known as Ouseley 217, housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford