Shāhnāma-i Saljuq
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- Shāhnāma-i Saljuq (Luqmān Unsī al-Mawlawī)
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- Author
- Luqmān Unsī al-Mawlawī
- لقمان انسي المولوی
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- Ünsi
- Luqmān Unsī al-Mawlawī, fl. 785/1373-4 (authorised)
- لقمان انسي المولوي (variant)
- Biographical notes
- Unsī is known for a single work, the manuscript of which is now lost, his short verse Seljuk Shāhnāma, the printed Persian text of which fills some 17 pages. In it, he tells us that he was from the town of Kunayad كنايد, in Khurasan. He wrote his work in Aleppo Aleppo in 785 AH [1383-1384 CE]; despite its title, it concentrates on the rise of the Karamanids and their wars with the Ottomans, and is interesting for the pro-Karamanid perspective it offers. However, the work has been largely ignored by scholarship and further research is needed to determine its authenticity.
- Title
- Shāhnāma-i Saljuq
- شهنامه سلجوق
- Notes
- The whereabouts of the unique manuscript are currently unknown. It was apparently shown to İsmet İnönü on his visit to Konya in 1941 [1941 CE] by Mes’ud Koman, the museum director, as he relates in his introduction to his edition, but the manuscript may have been his personal property rather than that of the museum. Koman describes it as a cönk, or collective codex.
- Main language of text
- Persian
- Bibliography
- Editions
- Koman, M. Mes’ud. Ünsi’nin Selçuk Şehnamesi. Konya: 1942, , [n.d.].
- Studies
- Peacock, A.C.S.. "Seljuq Legitimacy in Islamic History." In The Seljuqs: Politics, Society and Culture. Lange, Christian and Songul Mecit, ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011, 79-95.
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- Date of copy
- 18th. century