A LITTLE KNOWN SOURCE OF SALJUQ HISTORY: ḤASAN-I YAZDĪ’S JĀMİ‘ AT-TAWĀRĪKH-İ ḤASANĪ

Number: 5 June 1, 2016
  • Bülent Özkuzugüdenli
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A LITTLE KNOWN SOURCE OF SALJUQ HISTORY: ḤASAN-I YAZDĪ’S JĀMİ‘ AT-TAWĀRĪKH-İ ḤASANĪ

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The present work, consisting of an introduction and two main parts, is an analytical study of the chapter on the Saljuqs in the Persian chronicle titled Jāmiʿ at-tawārīkh-i Ḥasanī (Ḥasanī’s Compendium of Chronicles) by a Timurid author, Ḥasan-i Yazdī. After addressing the life and works of the author, the contents of his chronicle, its importance, and its sources (as far as they are mentioned in the text), the introduction discusses the significance of this chapter as a source on the Saljuqs. In addition, this study details linguistic and stylistic features of the text and provides indepth analysis of its extant copies and an evaluation of its previous studies. Tāj ad-Dīn Ḥasan b. Shihāb b. Ḥusayn-i Yazdī was born around 793/1390-91. He served two Timurid rulers, Mīrzā Iskandar b. ʿUmar Shaykh and Mīrzā Sulṭān Muḥammad Bahādir b. Baysungur. The author started writing this book in 855/1451 at the order of the Timurid Mīrzā Sulṭān Muḥammad b. Baysungur. In Dhu’l-ḥijja 855 (25 December 1451-22 January 1452) Muḥammad b. Baysungur was killed by his brother Bābur. The author then dedicated this work to Babur b. Baysungur. No further information exists in the sources about the author’s life thereafter or the date of his death. Jāmiʿ at-tawārīkh-i Ḥasanī can be considered a general history of Islam from its very beginning until the time of its author. This work is one of the most extensive sources on the Saljuqs, particularly about the reign of Sultan Sanjar. For this reason it deserves to be taken into account on the Seljuq historiography. The author had access to Sanjar-nāma (or Razm-nāma-yi Sanjarī - Rūznāma-yi Sanjarī). He recurrently quotes from this and some other sources that are not extant. Two copies of Jāmiʿ at-tawārīkh-i Ḥasanī have survived to our time: 1.MS. Tehran, Iran Library (Kitābkhāna-yi Millī-yi Īrān), 1330. 2. MS. Istanbul, Süleymaniye Library, Fatih 4307.

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June 1, 2016

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Year 2016 Number: 5

APA
Özkuzugüdenli, B. (2016). SELÇUKLU TARİHİNİN AZ BİLİNEN BİR KAYNAĞI: HASAN-I YEZDÎ’NİN CÂMİ‘U’T-TEVÂRÎH-İ HASENÎ İSİMLİ ESERİ. Selçuk Üniversitesi Selçuklu Araştırmaları Dergisi, 5, 143-166. https://izlik.org/JA46RX45US
AMA
1.Özkuzugüdenli B. SELÇUKLU TARİHİNİN AZ BİLİNEN BİR KAYNAĞI: HASAN-I YEZDÎ’NİN CÂMİ‘U’T-TEVÂRÎH-İ HASENÎ İSİMLİ ESERİ. Selçuk Üniversitesi Selçuklu Araştırmaları Dergisi. 2016;(5):143-166. https://izlik.org/JA46RX45US
Chicago
Özkuzugüdenli, Bülent. 2016. “SELÇUKLU TARİHİNİN AZ BİLİNEN BİR KAYNAĞI: HASAN-I YEZDÎ’NİN CÂMİ‘U’T-TEVÂRÎH-İ HASENÎ İSİMLİ ESERİ”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Selçuklu Araştırmaları Dergisi, nos. 5: 143-66. https://izlik.org/JA46RX45US.
EndNote
Özkuzugüdenli B (June 1, 2016) SELÇUKLU TARİHİNİN AZ BİLİNEN BİR KAYNAĞI: HASAN-I YEZDÎ’NİN CÂMİ‘U’T-TEVÂRÎH-İ HASENÎ İSİMLİ ESERİ. Selçuk Üniversitesi Selçuklu Araştırmaları Dergisi 5 143–166.
IEEE
[1]B. Özkuzugüdenli, “SELÇUKLU TARİHİNİN AZ BİLİNEN BİR KAYNAĞI: HASAN-I YEZDÎ’NİN CÂMİ‘U’T-TEVÂRÎH-İ HASENÎ İSİMLİ ESERİ”, Selçuk Üniversitesi Selçuklu Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 5, pp. 143–166, June 2016, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA46RX45US
ISNAD
Özkuzugüdenli, Bülent. “SELÇUKLU TARİHİNİN AZ BİLİNEN BİR KAYNAĞI: HASAN-I YEZDÎ’NİN CÂMİ‘U’T-TEVÂRÎH-İ HASENÎ İSİMLİ ESERİ”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Selçuklu Araştırmaları Dergisi. 5 (June 1, 2016): 143-166. https://izlik.org/JA46RX45US.
JAMA
1.Özkuzugüdenli B. SELÇUKLU TARİHİNİN AZ BİLİNEN BİR KAYNAĞI: HASAN-I YEZDÎ’NİN CÂMİ‘U’T-TEVÂRÎH-İ HASENÎ İSİMLİ ESERİ. Selçuk Üniversitesi Selçuklu Araştırmaları Dergisi. 2016;:143–166.
MLA
Özkuzugüdenli, Bülent. “SELÇUKLU TARİHİNİN AZ BİLİNEN BİR KAYNAĞI: HASAN-I YEZDÎ’NİN CÂMİ‘U’T-TEVÂRÎH-İ HASENÎ İSİMLİ ESERİ”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Selçuklu Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 5, June 2016, pp. 143-66, https://izlik.org/JA46RX45US.
Vancouver
1.Bülent Özkuzugüdenli. SELÇUKLU TARİHİNİN AZ BİLİNEN BİR KAYNAĞI: HASAN-I YEZDÎ’NİN CÂMİ‘U’T-TEVÂRÎH-İ HASENÎ İSİMLİ ESERİ. Selçuk Üniversitesi Selçuklu Araştırmaları Dergisi [Internet]. 2016 Jun. 1;(5):143-66. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA46RX45US

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