In Volume 1-2: Biography, Additions, and Corrections | Section 2, History, Biography, etc.
previous chapter: 13.6.8 Appendix
§ 1455. M. b. ʿAlī b. M. b. al-Ḥasan al-Kātib al-Samarqandī (so Leyden iii p. 14), or Bahāʾ al-Dīn1 M. b. ʿAlī b. M. b. Ḥusain2 al-Ẓahīr3 al-Kātib al-Samarqandī (cf. Rieu ii p. 748b, al-Muẓaffrīyah p. 255) is said by ʿAufī,4 who calls him Ẓahīr al-Dīn … M. b. ʿA. al-Samarqandī al-Kātib, to have been for a time (muddatī) Minister (ṣāḥib-dīwān i ins̲h̲aʾ) to Qilic̲h̲ Ṭamg̲h̲āc̲h̲ K̲h̲ān. His Aʿrāḍ al-siyāsah is dedicated to “Abū ’l-Muẓaffar Qilic̲h̲ Ṭamg̲h̲āc̲h̲ K̲h̲āqān b. Jalāl al-Dīn”, i.e. according to Barthold (Turkestan p. 18) Qilic̲h̲ Ṭamg̲h̲āc̲h̲ K̲h̲ān Masʿūd b. ʿAlī (cf. op. cit. pp. 334, 336).5 His Sindbād-nāmah,6 of which there are mss. at the British Museum (Rieu ii 748) and the Royal Asiatic Society (see S. Oldenburg’s article O persidskoi prozaicheskoi versii “Knigi Sindbāda” in al-Muẓaffarīyah: Sbornik statei uchenikov … bar. V. R. Rozena, St. Petersburg 1897, pp. 255–8) begins with a long eulogy of the same monarch, who is there called Rukn al-Dīn … Quṭlug̲h̲ Bilgā [Bēg ?7] Abū ’l-Muẓaffar Qilic̲h̲ Tamg̲h̲āc̲h̲ K̲h̲ān b. Qilic̲h̲ Qarā-K̲h̲ān and is described as having vanquished his foes in Tūrān in the year fifty-six (i.e. 556/1161. See Rieu ii p. 748a). A third work, Samʿ al-Ẓahīr ¶ fī jamʿ al-Ẓahīr, is mentioned by ʿAufī (cf. Haft iqlīm and Ḥ. K̲h̲., both probably dependent on ʿAufī).
-
Aʿrāḍ al-siyāsah fī ag̲h̲hrāḍ al-riʾāsah, biographies of 74 persons, nearly all kings,8 from Jams̲h̲īd to Sanjar, “largely anecdotal in character, and of little interest on the whole, with the exception of the narrative of contemporary events during the reign of Qilich-Ṭamghāch-Khān inserted at the end of the book” (Barthold Turkestan p. 28): Ḥ. K̲h̲. i p. 368 (Ag̲h̲rāḍ al-siyāsah), Leyden iii p. 14 no. 927 (ah 948/1541–2), Āṣafīyah ii p. 1218 no. 107, Āyā Ṣōfyah 2844.
Extracts (contemporary events): Barthold Turkestan v epokhu mongolskago nashestviya, St. Petersburg 1900°* i, Teksty, pp. 71–2.
[Lubāb al-albāb i pp. 91–2; Haft iqlīm no. 1422; Rieu iip. 748.]
§ 1456. For the Futūḥāt i Fīrōz-S̲h̲āhī see no. 667 supra.
For the Bābur-nāmah, or Memoirs of Bābur, see no. 698 supra.
For the “autobiography” of S̲h̲āh Ṭahmāsp see no. 380 supra.
For the Jahāngīr-nāmah or Tūzuk i Jahāngīrī see no. 715 supra.
For Mīrzā Jawān-bak̲h̲t’s account of his escape from Delhi see no. 799 supra.
For the autobiography of Ṭīpū Sulṭān see no. 1070 (1) supra.
For the autobiography of S̲h̲āh S̲h̲ujāʿ al-Mulk see no. 562 supra.
For Nāṣir al-Dīn S̲h̲āh Qājār’s diaries of his journeys to Europe and elsewhere see no. 439 supra.
For the autobiography of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān K̲h̲ān, Amīr of Afg̲h̲ānistān, see no. 575 supra.
For Muẓaffar al-Dīn S̲h̲āh Qājār’s diary of his visit to Europe in 1900 see no. 448 supra.
§ 1457. ʿAbbās K̲h̲ān Iqbāl Ās̲h̲tiyānī (see no. 1453 supra).
- Qābūs i Was̲h̲mgīr i Ziyārī: zindagānī i ‘ilmī u adabī i ū: Berlin 1342/1924‡ (Intis̲h̲ārāt i Īrāns̲h̲ahr, i).
Notes
^ Back to text1. Sindbād-nāmah, b.m. ms. Or. 255 fol. 11b (quoted by Rieu): mī-gūyad muqarrir i īn kalimāt … al-ṣadr al-ajall al-auḥad malik al-udabāʾ wa-’l-kuttāb Bahāʾ al-Dīn saʿd al-Islām ṣāḥib al-naẓm wa-’l-nat̲h̲r muʿjiz al-bayānain mafk̲h̲ar al-lisānain … M. b. ʿA. b. M. b. ʿUmar al-Ẓahīrī al-Kātib al-Samarqandī.
^ Back to text2. So in the r.a.s. ms. It will be noticed that the b.m. ms. has ʿUmar, probably a corruption.
^ Back to text3. So in the r.a.s. ms., while the b.m. ms. has al-Ẓahīrī.
^ Back to text4. Lubāb al-albāb i p. 91.
^ Back to text5. He “ascended the throne, judging from his coins, in 558/1163. In 560/1165 he restored the city walls of Bukhārā on a foundation of baked bricks …” (Barthold Turkestan p. 336). For the word Ṭamg̲h̲āc̲h̲ see M. Qazwīnī’s remarks in his edition of the C̲h̲ahār maqālah, notes, pp. 92–4, English translation p. 102.
^ Back to text6. This work is in prose, not in “prosaic Persian verses”, as stated by Barthold (Turkestan, London 1928, p. 18). p.s. It is now accessible in the edition published at Istānbūl in 1948 by Ahmed Ateş.
^ Back to text7. Cf. Barthold Turkestan p. 336 n. 1.
^ Back to text8. Among the others are Ptolemy (al-Ḥakīm), Plato, Aristotle, and Abū Muslim.
