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Bibliothèque Nationale de France

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Manuscrits Persans

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Supplément Persan 1536

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Kitāb-i Saljūqnāmah (Ibn Bībī, Nāṣir al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, -1284 or 1285)

Author

Ibn Bībī, Nāṣir al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, -1284 or 1285

ابن بيبي، ناصر الدين حسين بن محمد

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İbni Bibi, Nasreddin Hüseyin bin Muhammed, -1284 or 1285

Ibn Bībī, Nāṣir al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, -1284 or 1285 (authorised)

al-Jafaʻrī al-Rughdī, Nāṣir al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1284 or 1285 (variant)

al-Roghdī, H. Mohammad al-Jafari, -1284 or 1285 (variant)

Ibn BīBi al-Munajamah, -1284 or 1285 (variant)

Ibn Bībī al-Munajjimah, -1284 or 1285 (variant)

Ibn Bībī, Amīr Nāṣir al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Jafaʻrī al-Rughdī, -1284 or 1285 (variant)

Ibn Bībī, Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, -1284 or 1285 (variant)

Ibn Bībī, Nāṣir al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, d. 1284 or 5 (variant)

İbn-i Bībī, Ḥüseyn bin Muḥammed bin ʻAlī el-Caʻferī er-Rugedī, -1284 or 1285 (variant)

İbni Bibi, Nasreddin Hüseyin bin Muhammed, -1284 or 1285 (variant)

Nāṣir al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Bībī, -1284 or 1285 (variant)

Rughadī, Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Jafaʻrī, -1284 or 1285 (variant)

Rughdī, Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Jafaʻrī, -1284 or 1285 (variant)

Rughdī, Nāṣir al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Jafaʻrī, -1284 or 1285 (variant)

ابن بيبي، ناصر الدين حسين بن محمد (variant)

ابن بيبي، ناصر الدين حسين بن محمد،, d. 1284 أو 5 (variant)

Biographical notes

Ibn Bībī was a bureaucrat at the Seljuk court and author of one of the main sources of the history of the Anatolian Seljuk ruling dynasty. His father Majd al-Dīn Muḥammad Tarjumān, fl. 13th century, had been a munshī at the court of ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Khwārazmshāh, d. 1220 as well as that of his son, Jalāl al-Dīn, Shah of Khorezm, -1231, while his mother, (Bībī Munajjima, d. before 679/early 1281) served the Khwārazmshāhs as court astrologer. After the death of the Jalāl al-Dīn, Shah of Khorezm, -1231, in 628 AH [1231 CE] the family relocated to Damascus where they remained until Ibn Bībī’s mother was invited > by ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Kayḳubād I to Konya to serve as court astrologer in around 631 AH [1233-1234 CE]. Her husband was later given a post at court as tarjumān (translator). Ibn Bībī rose to the head of the chancelery, holding the title Mālik-i Dīwān al-Ṭug̲h̲rā, and thus had privileged access to state documents and was particularly well-informed of events transpiring at court. Ibn Bībī wrote only one work but it has come to us in the following three different forms: firstly, the original work () dedicated to the Ilkhanid governor of Baghdad, ʻAlāʾ al-Dīn ʻAṭā Malik Juvaynī, 1226-1283; secondly, an anonymous Persian abridgement (mukhtaṣar) produced during Ibn Bībī’s lifetime (see ). Finally, there is a Turkish paraphrase by Yazıcızâde ʿAlī, active 15th century in the third section of his Oghuznāmah (اغوزنامه) or Taʾrīḫ-i āl-i selçūḳ composed for Murad II, Sultan of the Turks, 1404-1451 in 827 or 840 [1423-1437 CE]. His death date is unknown.

Title

Kitāb-i Saljūqnāmah

کتاب سلجوق نامه

Notes

Abbreviated history of the Saljuq dynasty of Rūm. The chronicle begins with the end of the reign of Kılıç Arslan I, Sultan of the Seljuks, -1107 until the time of the last Sutan of Rūm, Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Mesud II, Sultan of the Seljuks, 1284-1308

Main language of text

Persian

Bibliography

Editions

Houtsma, Martijn Theodoor. Recueil de textes relatifs à l'histoire des Seldjoucides. Leiden: Brill, , [n.d.].

Ibn Bibi, . Histoire des Seldjoucides d’Asie Mineure d’après l’abrégé du Seldjouknāmeh. Edited by Houtsma, Martin Th.. Leiden: 1902. (emended tr. by H. W. Duda as Die Seldschukengeschichte, Copenhagen, 1959.)

Ibn Bibi, and Muḥammad Javād Mashkūr. Akhbār-i Salajiqah-ʼi Rūm, bā matn-i kāmil-i Saljūqnāmah-ʼi Ibn Bībī, jāmiʻ-i maṭālib-i tārīkhī-i kitāb-i al-awāmir al-ʻAlāʼīyah fī al-umūr al-ʻAlāʻīyah. Taṣnīf-i Amīr Nāṣir al-Dīn Ḥusayn (Yaḥyā) ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Jaʻfarī al-Raghdī mashhūr bih Ibn Bībī al-Munjamah. Tehran: Kitābfurūshī-i Tihrān, 1971.

Translations

Ibn Bibi, . Histoire des Seldjoucides d'Asie Mineure: Texte turc. Edited by Houtsma, M. Th.. Translated by Yazıcıoğlu, ʿAli. Leiden: 1902.

Ibn Bibi, . Al-Awāmer al-ʿalāʾiya fi'l-omur al- al-ʿalāʾiya. Edited by Erzi, Adnan Sadik. Ankara: 1956. (Modern Turkish translation by Mürsel Öztürk (2 vols., Ankara, 1996))

Studies

Erdmann, Kurt. Ibn Bibi als kunsthistorische Quelle. Istanbul: Nederlands Historische-Archaeologische Institut,, 1962.

Köprülü, Mehmed Fuad. "Anadolu selcukları tarihi’nin yerli kaynakları." Belleten:Türk Tarih Kurumu. 7 1943: 379-521. (tr. as The Seljuks of Anatolia: Their History and Culture according to Local Muslim Sources, by G. Leiser, Salt Lake City, 1992.)

Melville, Charles. "The Early Persian Historiography of Anatolia." In History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East: Studies in Honor of John E. Woods. Pfeiffer, Judith, ed. Wiesbaden: 2006, 135-66.-135-66..

Özaydın, Abdülkerim. "İbn Bîbî." TDVİA. 19 1999: 379-382.

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 439.

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Fatih Millet Kütüphanesi no. 943

Physical Description

Number of folios

175 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 16cm, height 22cm

History

Place

Anatolia

Date of copy

Second half of the 14th century