historiography
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Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
خلاصة التواريخ كشمير Khulāṣat al-Tawārīkh-i Kashmīr, 1278 A.H., 1861 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 234
Scope and Contents
This work (copied for the donor by one of the compilers from the holograph copy) is a short history of Kashmir from the earliest times. It was begun originally at the desire of some English officials by Mirzā Sayf al-Dīn, who held the post of record writer in Kashmir, and brought down by him to 1277 A.H. (1859 C.E.), but he died a year later. Some time after, the donor, on his appointment as British Agent in Kashmir, requested the brother and successor in office of the deceased, Mirzā Muḥyi...
Dates:
1278 A.H.; 1861 C.E.
روضة الصفاء Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ, 1057 A.H., 1647 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 71
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An excellent copy (seven volumes bound in one) in good preservation of the famous work on general history, composed around the turn of the 16th century C.E., by Muḥammad b. Khāvandshāh b. Maḥmūd, “Mīrkhānd”.
Dates:
1057 A.H.; 1647 C.E.
طبقات اکبرشاهی Ṭabaqāt-i Akbar-Shāhī, undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 77
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A most celebrated general history of India from the time of the Muslim conquest (367 A.H., 977 C.E.) to the 38th year of Mughal Emperor Akbar's reign (1002 A.H., 1593 A.D.). The work, which is the earliest pertaining exclusively to India, is also known under the titles of Ṭabaqāt-i Akbarī, Ta'rīkh-i Niẓamī, and Ta' rīkh-i Sulṭān-i Niẓamī. It was compiled by Niẓam al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Muqīm...
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undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)
ظفرنامه Ẓafar-nāmah, undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 73
Scope and Contents
An authentic history of the great conqueror Tīmūr (Tamerlane) from his birth, 736 A.H. (1336 C.E.), to his death, 807 A.H. (1405 C.E.), collected from official records, by Mawlānā Sharaf al-Dīn 'Alī Yazdī (d. 858 A.H., 1454 C.E.), who was attached to the court of Sulṭān Shāhrukh Mīrzā, and subsequently of his son, Sulṭān Ibrāhīm Mīrzā, at whose desire the present work was compiled at Shiraz in four years and dedicated to Shāhrukh in 828 A.H. (1425 C.E.). The ...
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)
ظفرنامه Ẓafar-nāmah, 1090 A.H., 1679 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 74
Scope and Contents
An authentic history of the great conqueror Tīmūr (Tamerlane) from his birth, 736 A.H. (1336 C.E.), to his death, 807 A.H. (1405 C.E.), collected from official records, by Mawlānā Sharaf al-Dīn 'Alī Yazdī (d. 858 A.H., 1454 C.E.), who was attached to the court of Sulṭān Shāhrukh Mīrzā, and subsequently of his son, Sulṭān Ibrahim Mīrzā, at whose desire the present work was compiled at Shiraz in four years and dedicated to Shāhrukh in 828 A.H. (1425 C.E.). The ...
Dates:
1090 A.H.; 1679 C.E.
لب التواريخ Lubb al-tawārīkh, undated (original text compiled 16th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 239
Scope and Contents
An abridgement of universal history, especially the history of Persia, from the earliest times to 948 A.H., 1541 C.E. It was compiled in 948 A.H., 1541 C.E., by Amīr Sayyid Yaḥyá b. ‘Abd al-Laṭīf al-Ḥusaynī al-Qazvīnī (d. 962 A.H., 1555 C.E.), and dedicated to Prince Abū al-Fatḥ Bahrām-Mirzā, a brother of Shāh-Tahmāsp Ṣafavī (d. 984 A.H., 1576 C.E.).
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undated (original text compiled 16th cent. C.E.)
واقعات بابری Vāqiʻāt-i Bāburī, 1215 A.H., 1798 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 76
Scope and Contents
A complete copy of the Persian version of the memoirs of the Mughal Emperor Bābur (1483-1530 C.E.).
Dates:
1215 A.H.; 1798 C.E.