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Turkey

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Istanbul

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Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi

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Ayasofya

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no. 3143

Contents

Musāmarat al-akhbār va musāyarat al-akhyār (Kerîmüddin Mahmud-i Aksarayî)

Author

Kerîmüddin Mahmud-i Aksarayî

كريم الدين محمود آقسرائي

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كريم الدين محمود ابن محمد آقسرائي

Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad al-Karīm al-Aqsarāʾī

Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad al-Karīm al-Aqsarāyī

Kerîmüddin Mahmud-i Aksarayî (authorised)

Aksarayî, Kerîmüddin Mahmud-i (variant)

Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad Āqsarāʼī (variant)

Āqsarāʼī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad (variant)

Aksaraylı Mehmed oğlu Kerîmüddin Mahmud (variant)

Aksarāyī, Karīm al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad (variant)

Biographical notes

His date of birth is unknown but died at an old age in the late 1320 [1320-1329 CE]’s. He was an official of the Mongol dominated Anatolia working under the authority of the naib Mud̲j̲īr al-Dīn Amīr Shāh. When the naib died, Maḥmūd Ghāzān, Ilkhān of the Mongols, 1271-1304 appointed Aqsarāʾī as nāẓir (or intendant of the awḳāf) in Anatolia. He later served also as military commandant (kutwāl) of his hometown Aksaray (Turkey). At the end of his life he composed his only work, a history of Anatolia under Mongol domination in Persian language. Like all local histories of Anatolia, his works seems to have had limited distribution and was not read outside of Anatolia (see (Peacock_Seljuk_EIr)). The text was only used by Qāḍī Aḥmad of Niğde, fl. 14th century, قاضي احمد نيغدة, and the Ottoman compiler Aḥmad ibn Luṭf Allāh Munajjim Bāshī, 1631-1702 in pre-modern times but is one of the most important sources for the history of 13th and 14th century [1200-1399 CE] Anatolia together with the al-Avāmir al-ʻalāʼīyah fī al-umūr al-ʻalāʼīyah (الاوامر العلائيه فى الامور العلائيه) of Ibn Bībī .

Title

Musāmarat al-akhbār va musāyarat al-akhyār

مسامرة الاخبار و مسايرة الاخيآ

Notes

A historical chronicle written in Persian prose covering mostly the events of Anatolia and Iran under Mongol domination. This period is included only in the last chapter of the chronicle (chapter fourth) but it takes up to three-quarters of the book contents, including the last 75 years that were contemporary with Aqsarāʾī himself. ( (Bacqué-Grammont, J.-L.. "al-Aḳsarāyī." Encyclopedia of Islam. Brill, , [n.d.].))

Composed in Anatolia in 723 [1323 CE]

Main language of text

Persian

Bibliography

Editions

al-Aqsarāʾī, Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad al-Karīm. Musāmarat al-akhbār va musāyarat al-akhyār. Edited by Turan, Osman. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 1944.

Translations

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

al-Aqsarāʾī, Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad al-Karīm. Die Seltschuken-Geschichte des Akserāyī. Translated by Işiltan, Fikret. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1943.

al-Aqsarāʾī, Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad al-Karīm. Selçukî devletleri tarihi. (contains a complete facsimile of the text). Translated by Gencosman, M Nuri and Feridun Nafiz Uzluk. Konya: Recep Ulusoğlu Basımevi, 1943.

Studies

Bacqué-Grammont, J.-L.. "al-Aḳsarāyī." Encyclopedia of Islam. Brill, , [n.d.].

Köprülü, Fuad. "Anadolu Selçukluları Tarihi’nin Yerli Kaynakları." Belleten. VII, no. 27 1943: 389-391.

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..

Peacock, Andrew. "SALJUQS iii. SALJUQS OF RUM." Encyclopedia Iranica. , [n.d.].

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Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi no. 827

Physical Description

Number of folios

144 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 17cm, height 24cm

Dimensions of written area

width 11.5cm, height 18cm

Seal

Seal of Bayezid II, Sultan of the Turks, 1447 or 1448-1512

History

Place

Anatolia

Date of copy

14th. century