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Section 2.-The Mughals, 13 pp.

Section 3.-The successors of Sultán Abú Sa'id in Irán, in

five subsections, 25 pp.

Section 4.-The descendants of Amír Tímúr, 19 pp.

Section 5.-The Kárá-kúínlú and Ak-kúínlú Turks,1 in two

subsections, 17 pp.

Section 6.-The descendants of Túshí Khán, son of Changíz Khán, in Khurásán and Transoxiana, 2 pp.

SIZE.-Folio. pp. 164, of 19 lines.

The work is in too abridged a form to render any passage worth translating. Copies of the Lubbu-t Tawáríkh are rare in India, and I know of no good Manuscript. The most celebrated of Europe are those of Paris, Vienna, the Vatican, Bodleian, and Sir W. Ouseley. There are two in the British Museum. Hamaker also notices one in the Leyden Library, No. 1738, written A.D. 1645-6, but ascribed to Mas'údí by some extraordinary mistake.2

1 See note, p. 299.

2 Compare Hamaker, Specimen Catalogi cod. MSS., pp. 48, 242. vol. ii., p. 299. Wien Jahrb., No. lxix., p. 10. D'Herbelot, Bibl. Taouarikh. Busching's Mag. f. d. neu Hist. und Geog., No. xvii. Abregé de la vie des auteurs, etc., etc., p. 529. Ouseley, Epitome Persia, pp. v., xxxi. Mod. Univ. Hist., vol. iii., p. 376.

Fundgr. d. Or., Or. Art. Labb al Petis de la Croix, of Anc. Hist. of

298

XXXI.

NUSAKH-I JAHAN-ARA

OF

KAZI AHMAD.

THIS "world-adorning history" is a useful compendium, containing a brief account, not only of all the dynasties usually treated of, but several of less note.

The author is Kází Ahmad bin Muhammad al-Ghaffárí alKazwíní, to whom we are also indebted for the better known work entitled Nigáristán.1 From the short account given of him, amongst the biographies in the Tárikh-i Badáúnt, we learn that, having resigned his employment in Persia, he went, towards the close of his life, on a pilgrimage to Mecca, and that landing at Daibal in Sind, for the purpose of paying a visit to Hindustán, he died at that port, A.H. 975 (A.D. 1567).

The Jahán-árá carries the history of Asia down to A.H. 972, of which number the author tells us that the title forms the chronogram. One section of the work was extracted by Sir W. Ouseley, and published in 1799, under the title of Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia. India is noticed in several sections of the work, but they are of any value.

not in sufficient detail to be

1 M. Rousseau attributes a Persian anthology to him, but this appears to be an

error.

The Books and Chapters of the Jahán-árá are most fancifully divided and subdivided into leaves, pages, paragraphs, clauses, lines, letters, etc.

CONTENTS.

The Introduction treats of Chronology and of the Prophetical Office, p. 4-9.

Book I.-The Prophets.-Muhammad.-The Twelve Imáms, p. 9-39.

Book II.-Chapter 1st.-The kings who preceded Muhammad.-The Peshdádians.-Kaíánians.-Ashgánians.—Sásánians.-Kings of Babylon.-Syria.-Greece.-Yemen.-Ghassán. -Khákáns of Turks.

Chapter 2nd.-Kings subsequent to Muhammad.-'Abbaside Khalifs.-Táhirians.-Arab Kings of Spain.-Sharifs of Mecca. -Isma'ílians.-Sultáns of Gílán and Mázandarán.-Saffarians. -Búwaihides.-Ghaznívides.- Saljúkians.- Khwárizm-sháhís. -Karákhitáís.-Atábaks.-Ghorians.-Chiefs of Arabia.-The Cæsars of Rúm.-The Sultáns of Hind.-Guzerát.-Dekhin.— Chiefs of Lár and Hormuz.-The Khákáns of Mughals.-Sultáns of Máwaráu-n Nahr.-Amír Tímúr.-Sháh Rukh.-Sons of 'Umar Shaikh.-Descendants of Mírán Sháh.-The family of 'Usmán.—The Sultáns of Kárá-kúínlú, and of Ak-kúínlú,1 pp. 39-433.

Book III.-The Saffavían dynasty, p. 434-578.

SIZE. Small folio, 578 pp. of 18 lines each.

The subdivisions are given in greater detail in the Jahrbücher, and in exacter correspondence with the original; but it is strange

1 This is the usual reading in works written or copied in India. Malcolm (Hist. of Persia, vol. i., p. 323) gives it as koinloo; Von Hammer-Purgstall (Jahrb. No. lxix.), as kojunlú. [The proper orthography is koyunlu, possessed of or related to sheep; the word koyun signifying sheep in Turkish. It is said that two tribes, each founding a dynasty, adopted respectively a white and a black sheep as the device of their standards, and hence their names of A'k-koyunlu and Kárdkoyunlu.-Redhouse.]

that all notice of Book III. is omitted. I have seen copies in this country also, in which there is no mention of that Book.

Von Hammer-Pursgtall observes that the work is not common in Europe, but notices three copies in London, and one in his own collection. M. Fraehn also notices it among his desiderata. I know of three copies in India; at Dehlí, at Lucknow, and at Haidarábád, none of which are of conspicuous merit.1

1 Compare Rousseau, Parnasse Oriental, p. 96. Gesch. d. Gold. Horde, p. xxiv. Gesch. d. sch. Red. Pers., pp. 13, 307, 350. Wien Jahrb. Anzgb., p. 35. Ouseley, Epitome of Anc. Hist. of Persia, p. xxxvi. Fraehn, Indications Bibliograph.

No. 215.

301

XXXII.

TARIKH-I SHER SHAHI,

OR

TUHFAT-I AKBAR SHAHI

OF

'ABBAS KHAN, SARWANY.

[THIS work was written by order of the Emperor Akbar, and its author bestowed upon it the title Tuhfat-i Akbar Sháhí; but Ahmad Yádgár, who wrote the Tarikh-i Salátin-i Afághana a few years afterwards, calls it the Tárikh-i Sher Shahi, and so it continues to be known. The author of the work was 'Abbas Khán, son of Shaikh 'Alí Sarwání. Nothing is known of the author beyond the little which he incidentally mentions in the course of the work, that he was connected by marriage with the family of Sher Shah, and so had peculiar sources of information as to the life and character of that adventurous and successful chief, whose craft and valour won a crown. ’Abbás Khán certainly had high connexions, but he attained no great distinction in his own person. He received the command of 500 horse from the Emperor Akbar, of which, by the intrigues of his enemies, he was soon deprived. This so wounded his feelings that he resolved to "return to the country of his fathers." But the Khán Khánán took compassion on him, and being informed of his own history and that of his ancestors, procured for him " a

1 The exact date of its composition is not given, but it was probably soon after 987 H. (1579 A.D.), a date which is mentioned by the writer in the course of the work when referring to his personal affairs.

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