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ROSS (E. Denison). DO VALOR dos Historiadores Portugueses do Oriente à Luz dos Anais Mussulmanos. Coimbra. 1933. - ROSS (E. Denison) DO VALOR dos Historiadores Portugueses do Oriente à Luz dos Anais Mussulmanos . Coimbra: Coimbra Editora, 1933. 32 pp.; 265 mm. A study in which orientalist Edward Denison Ross assesses the reliability of major Portuguese chroniclers of the East, such as João de Barros, Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, Gaspar Correia, and Diogo do Couto, comparing their accounts with contemporary Muslim sources, in Arabic and Persian, about the same events. The intersection of the two historiographical traditions allows us to assess the accuracy of the Portuguese chroniclers in matters such as chronology, the names of sovereigns, and relations with the Islamic states of the Indian Ocean, and underscores the value of these chronicles as sources for Asian history itself. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate