Firdaws Al-Iqbāl

History of Khorezm
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-04-11365-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 726 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1542 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

This volume is a translation from Chaghatay (medieval Turkic literary language of Central Asia) of a work written by Uzbek historians Munis and Agahi in the early 19th century. It contains the history of Khorezm, especially detailed for the 18th and early 19th centuries, and it is an outstanding example of Central Asian historiography.
The book is the first Western translation of this historical work and the first such translation of a major Chaghatay source for the history of Central Asia in the 18th-19th centuries.
Besides the translation, the book includes extensive historical and philological notes and detailed introduction discussing the historical background of the period when the work was written, the biographies of the authors, the history of the text, and its sources.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Munis, Shir Muhammad Mirab

Agahi, Muhammad Riza Mirab

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chaghatay, Abdullah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Yuri Bregel, Ph.D. (1961) in History, Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, is Professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. His numerous publications on medieval and early modern history of Central Asia include also the text edition of Firdaws al-iqbal (Brill, 1988).