The Tārīkh-e ʿĀlam-ārā-ye ʿAbbāsī (Persian: تاریخ عالمآرای عباسی) recorded the history of the Iranian Safavid dynasty, from its founding under Shah Ismail I to the end, under Shah Abbas I, covering the period of 1600–1680.[1] The book was written by the special secretary and counsellor to the Safavid court of Shah Abbas I, Eskandar Beg Munshi who had been an eyewitness to most of the events or consulted other eyewitnesses.
This book documents the entire history of Shah Abbas I. He covered Shah Safi in a separate book called Tārīkh-e Jahān-ārā-ye ʿAbbāsī were published separately.
See also
References
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- ^ Morley, William Hook (1854). A Descriptive Catalogue of the Historical Manuscripts in the Arabic and Persian Languages, Preserved in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. J. W. Parker. p. 135.
Further reading
- Moreen, Vera B. (2010). "ʽĀlamārā-yi Ἁbbāsi, Tārīkh-i". In Norman A. Stillman (ed.). Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Brill Online.
- Quinn, Sholeh A. (2008). "ʿĀlam ārā- yi ʿAbbāsī". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.
- Sadan, Amit (2021). "The Nature of Legitimacy: Representations of the Natural World in Iskandar Beg Munshi's Tārīkh-e ʿĀlam-ārā-ye ʿAbbāsī". Iranian Studies. 54 (1–2): 41–65. doi:10.1080/00210862.2019.1647095. S2CID 211677412.
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