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[For information concerning the Zands see also the histories of the last Ṣafawids on pp. 249–250 supra.]
§ 414. Mīrzā ʿAbd Allāh “S̲h̲ihāb” b. Ḥabīb Allāh Turs̲h̲īzī was successively the panegyrist of S̲h̲āh-zādah Maḥmūd [b. Tīmūr S̲h̲āh, the Durrānī, at Harāt], by whose desire he compiled his dīwān (Rieu Suppt. 353 (1)) in 1206/1791–2, and of Āqā Muḥammad K̲h̲ān Qājār (reigned ah 1193/1779–1211/1797). He died in 1215/1800–1. He was the author of a K̲h̲usrau S̲h̲īrīn (entitled apparently Durrat al-tāj. Rieu Suppt. 352 (1)) and other works (for the titles of which see Rieu Suppt. 353 (1)).
- An unfinished poem on the career of ʿAlī Murād K̲h̲ān Zand (reigned ah 1193/1779–1199/1785): Rieu Suppt. 352 (ah 1194/1780).
[Safīnat al-Maḥmūd (Rieu Suppt. 122) fol. 238b; Majmaʿ al-fuṣaḥāʾ ii 253; Rieu Suppt. p. 220.]
§ 415. Abū ’l-Ḥasan b. M. Amīn Gulistānah was a nephew of Mīrzā M. Taqī, Governor of Kirmāns̲h̲āhān and Mustaufī al-Mamālik under Nādir S̲h̲āh, and with his two younger brothers lived with his uncle at Kirmāns̲h̲āhān. In the anarchy that followed Nādir S̲h̲āh’s death M. Taqī suffered much from the depredations of the Zands and he and his nephew Abū ’l-Ḥasan played a prominent part in the resistence offered to them. In 1164/1750–1 when Karīm K̲h̲ān made his unsuccessful attack on Kirmāns̲h̲āhān Abū ’l-Ḥasan fell into his hands but escaped. Subsequently when Karīm K̲h̲ān besieged Kirmāns̲h̲āhān for nearly two years, M. Taqī and his nephew led the defence, and after the surrender both were held by Karīm K̲h̲ān as hostages. After Karīm K̲h̲ān’s defeat by Āzād K̲h̲ān Afg̲h̲ān, the latter sent them back to Kirmāns̲h̲āhān, but, when M. Taqī was murdered soon after, Abū ’l-Ḥasan and his two brothers fled first to Bag̲h̲dād and then (in 1169/1756) to Mus̲h̲idābād, where an uncle of his mother’s had for some time been resident. About six months later their relative died, and it seems that Abū ’l-Ḥasan had to suffer hardship in Bengal.
- ¶ Mujmal al-tārīk̲h̲ i baʿd-Nādirīyah, a history of Persia from the death of Nādir S̲h̲āh (ah 1160/1747) to the date of completion, ah 1196/1782: Ross and Browne 12 (18th cent.), i.o. 3739, Berlin 437.
Edition (incomplete, extending to fol. 104a of the Berlin ms., which contains 284 foll.): Das Mujmil et-Târîkh-i ba‘dnâdirîje des Ibn Muhammed Emîn Abu ’l-Ḥasan aus Gulistâne…. herausgegeben … von Oskar Mann. Leyden 1891°* (“Fasc, i: Geschichte Persiens in den Jahren 1747–1750”), 1896°* (“Fasc, ii: Geschichte des Aḥmed Šâh Durrânî”).
§ 416. Mîrzā M. Ṣādiq “Nāmī” Mūsawī belonged to a family of Iṣfahān, previously of Fārs, which for a century and a half had given court physicians to the Ṣafawids. He is the author of three mat̲h̲nawīs, viz. K̲h̲usrau S̲h̲īrīn (Rieu Suppt. 346–7, Bodl. 1191, Ivanow 880), Lailā u Majnūn (Ivanow 880) and Wāmiq u ʿAd̲h̲rā (Rieu Suppt. 348–9, Ivanow 800, Bodl. 1192–3, Browne Suppt. 1352) and died in 1204/1789–90. His Tārīk̲h̲ i Gītī-gus̲h̲āy was left incomplete (extending only to the capture of Iṣfahān on 21 Muḥarram 1200) at his death, and was continued by his pupil ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAlī Riḍā al-S̲h̲arīf (see p. 115 supra) by order of Jaʿfar K̲h̲ān’s wazīr, Mīrzā M. Ḥusain Farāhānī, who had supplied Mīrzā Ṣādiq with much of his information.
- Tārīk̲h̲ i Gītī-gus̲h̲āy, often called the Tārīk̲h̲ i Zandīyah, a history of the Zands from the rise of Karīm K̲h̲ān to the death of Luṭf ʿAlī K̲h̲ān in 1209/1794: Rieu i pp. 196–7 (5 copies), Blochet i 491 (ah 1252), Majlis 234 (ah 1284/1867–8), Berlin 439, Leningrad Pub. Lib. (? See Mélanges asiatiques iii (St. Petersburg 1859) p. 731).
[Ātas̲h̲-kadah (Bodleian 384) no. 832; Majmaʿ al-fuṣaḥāʾ ii 523; Rieu i p. 196.]
§ 417. Of unknown authorship is the
- (Tārīk̲h̲ i Zandīyah), beginning Īn kitāb ḥaqīqat-nāmah īst, a condensed history of the rise and fall of the Zand dynasty written in the reign of Āqā M. K̲h̲ān Qājār: Bānkīpūr vi 525 (19th cent.).
§ 418. Abū ’l-Ḥasan b. Muʿizz al-Dīn M. al-G̲h̲affārī al-Kās̲h̲ānī al-Mustaufī, the son of a Governor of Kās̲h̲ān, began in 1198/1783–4 (in the reign of ʿAlī Murād K̲h̲ān) the
- Guls̲h̲an i murād, a florid history of the Zands from Karīm K̲h̲ān to the death of Jaʿfar K̲h̲ān ah 1203/1789, completed in 1210/1795 after the author’s death by M. ʿAlī K̲h̲ān S̲h̲īrāzī: Rieu Suppt. 66 (defective. ad 1887).
¶ § 419. ʿAlī Riḍā b. ʿAbd al-Karīm S̲h̲īrāzi wrote
- (Tārīk̲h̲ i Zandīyah), a history of the Zand dynasty from the death of Karīm K̲h̲ān in 1193/1779 to the defeat of Luṭf ʿAlī K̲h̲ān in 1209/1794: Rieu i 198a (ah 1218/1803), 198b (ah 1217/1802), 199a (19th cent.), iii 1072b (ah 1225/1810), Berlin 47 (1) (ah 1222/1807), Rehatsek p. 71 no. 6 [?] (ah 1223/1808–9), Brelvi and Dhabhar p. xiii (ah 1223/1808–9. Damaged), Aumer 233 (ah 1224/1809), Rosen Institut 21 (ah 1224/1809–10).
Edition: Das Târîkh-i Zendīje … hrsg…. von E. Beer, Leyden 1888°*.
Narratives based mainly on this work: Malcolm, History of Persia, ii 147, 153–202; E. Scott Waring, A tour to Sheeraz, London 1807, pp. 257–305.
