Muḥīṭ al-Tavārīkh (The Sea of Chronicles)

527 Pages·2013·6.656 MB·English

by  Mehrdad Fallahzadeh

Muḥīṭ al-Tavārīkh (The Sea of Chronicles)
Studies in
Persian Cultural History
Edited by
Charles Melville (Cambridge University)
Gabrielle van den Berg (Leiden University)
Sunil Sharma (Boston University)
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Muḥīṭ al-Tavārīkh

(The Sea of Chronicles)
By
Muḥammad Amīn b. Mīrzā Muḥammad Zamān

Bukhārī (Ṣūfīyānī)

Critical Edition and Introduction by
Mehrdad Fallahzadeh and Forogh Hashabeiky

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no. 7351; fols. 2b and 3a.
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
List of Figures viii
Transliteration System ix
Introduction �
1 General Description 5
1 The Author  5
2 The Work  9
3 The Manuscripts 23
4 The Evolution of the Manuscripts and the Principles
of the Edition  44
5 Sigla 50
2 Historical Overview  53
3 Linguistic Description 75
1 Orthographic Features 76
2 Grammatical Features 88
3 Summary 105
Bibliography  107
1 Primary Sources  107
2 Secondary Sources 109
3 Reference Works 112
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Acknowledgements
Our first debt of gratitude is to the Swedish Research Council for providing us
with funds to carry out this project.
We owe special thanks to Dr. Mahmoud Hassanabadi who spent many hours
with us to solve the problems in the Persian text.
We would also like to thank Dr. Esmat Esmaeili who at the eleventh hour
thoroughly read the manuscript, and provided us with many valuable sugges-
tions for the improvement of the Persian edited text.
We would also like to express our gratitude to the staff of the Bibliothèque
nationale de France (BnF), Instituta Vostokovedenija Akademii Nauk im. Ab-
uraihon Birunii, and the Library of Instituta Vostokovedenija Akademii Nauk
for providing us with the copies of the manuscripts.
Last but not least, we would like to thank Valerie Joy Turner and Everett
Thiele for undertaking the task of copy-editing the last version of the English
Introduction.
List of Figures
1 Fol. 1v of MS at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) (France, Paris),
supplément persan 1548 35
2 Fol. 105r of MS at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) (France,
Paris), supplément persan 1548 36
3 Fol. 186r of MS at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) (France,
Paris), supplément persan 1548  37
4 Fols. 1v–2r of MS at Instituta Vostokovedenija Akademii Nauk im.
Aburaihon Birunii (Uzbekistan, Tashkent), no. 7351 39
5 Fol. 265v of MS at Instituta Vostokovedenija Akademii Nauk im.
Aburaihon Birunii (Uzbekistan, Tashkent), no. 7351 40
6 Fol. 1v of MS at Instituta Vostokovedenija Akademii Nauk im. Aburaihon
Birunii (Uzbekistan, Tashkent), no. 835 41
7 Fol. 172v of MS at Instituta Vostokovedenija Akademii Nauk im. Aburaihon
Birunii (Uzbekistan, Tashkent), no. 835 42
8 Fols. 159v-160r of MS at Instituta Vostokovedenija Akademii Nauk im.
Aburaihon Birunii (Uzbekistan, Tashkent), no. 835 43
9 Fol. 22r of MS at Instituta Vostokovedenija Akademii Nauk im. Aburaihon
Birunii (Uzbekistan, Tashkent), no. 835 44
10 Fol. 55r of MS at Instituta Vostokovedenija Akademii Nauk im. Aburaihon
Birunii (Uzbekistan, Tashkent), no. 835 45
11 p. 2 of MS at the Institut Vostochny�kh Rukopiseī RAN (ИВР РАН)
(St. Petersburg, Russia), no. D 89 47
12 p. 197 of MS at the Institut Vostochny�kh Rukopiseī RAN (ИВР РАН)
(St. Petersburg, Russia), no. D 89 48
13 p. 183 of MS at the Institut Vostochny�kh Rukopiseī RAN (ИВР РАН)
(St. Petersburg, Russia), no. D 89 49
14 pp. 184, 185 of MS at the Institut Vostochny�kh Rukopiseī RAN (ИВР РАН)
(St. Petersburg, Russia), no. D 89 50
15 pp. 186, 187 of MS at the Institut Vostochny�kh Rukopiseī RAN (ИВР РАН)
(St. Petersburg, Russia), no. D 89 51
16 p. 198 of MS at the Institut Vostochny�kh Rukopiseī RAN (ИВР РАН)
(St. Petersburg, Russia), no. D 89 52
17 p. 200 of MS at the Institut Vostochny�kh Rukopiseī RAN (ИВР РАН)
(St. Petersburg, Russia), no. D 89 53
Transliteration System
The transliteration system that has been adopted here is based on the system
employed in IJMES. The (silent /h/) at the end of words, with the exception
of words in chronograms, is omitted. The names of known provinces, cities,
and dynasties, as well as religious terms, have been anglicised. For other books
cited or quoted here, we refer the reader to those books and the transliteration
systems employed there.