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Istanbul

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Fatih Millet Kütüphanesi

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Ali Emiri Koleksiyonu (Farsça)

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al-Avāmir al-ʻalāʼīyah fī al-umūr al-ʻalāʼīyah (Ibn Bībī, Nāṣir al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, -1284 or 1285 )

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

ابن بيبي، ناصر الدين حسين بن محمد

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Nâsırüddîn Hüseyn b. Muhammed b. ʿAlî el-Caʿferî er-Rugadî el-Münşî (ö. 684/1285’ten sonra)

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

al-Avāmir al-ʻalāʼīyah fī al-umūr al-ʻalāʼīyah

الاوامر العلائيه فى الامور العلائيه

Notes

This work is a historical work written in Persian covering the history of the Seljuqs of Rūm from 588 to 679 [1192-1282 CE], covering the history of Anatolia from the reign of Gıyaseddin Keyhusrev I, Sultan of the Seljuks, 1164-1211 up to that of Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Mesud II, Sultan of the Seljuks, 1282-1308. It is written in a high Persian style characteristic of the Ilkhanid historical writing of the end of the 13th century [1250-1300 CE], including parallelisms, assonance and internal rhyme mixed with Persian and Arabic poetry ( (Yıldız, Sara Nur. "Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Seljuk Anatolia: The Politics of Conquest and History Writing, 1243-1282." Ph.D. diss.,, University of Chicago, 2006., pp. 446))

Composed in Anatolia in 680 [1281 CE]

This is volume 2 of the work, see (#TK_Fat_AE_819, pp. Ali Emiri 819) for volume 1 and (#TK_Fat_AE_821, pp. Ali Emiri 821) for volume 3

Work is dedicated to ʻAlāʾ al-Dīn ʻAṭā Malik Juvaynī, 1226-1283

Main language of text

Persian

Bibliography

Editions

Ibn Bībī, Nāṣir ad-Dīn Ḥusayn Ibn Muḥammad. al-Awāmir al-'alā'iyya fi l-umūr al-'alā'iyya ma'rūf bih Tārīkh-i Ibn Bībī. Edited by Zhāla, Muttaḥidīn. Pazhūhishgāh-i 'ulūm-i insānī va muṭāla'āt-i farhangī, 1390 [2011].

Translations

Ibn Bibi, . Die Seltschukengeschichte des Ibn Bībī : , [cop. ] Edition/Format: Print book : German. Translated by Duda, Herbert Wilhelm. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1959.

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..

Yıldız, Sara Nur. "Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Seljuk Anatolia: The Politics of Conquest and History Writing, 1243-1282." Ph.D. diss.,, University of Chicago, 2006.

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

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Fatih Millet Kütüphanesi no. 819

Fatih Millet Kütüphanesi no. 821

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi no. 2985

Physical Description

Number of folios

ff.

Hand

Copyist: Muḥammad Jamāl al-Khākī al-Mardīnī, fl. 20th century, محمد جمال الخاکی المردینی

History

Place

Anatolia

Date of copy

20th century