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Tarjumah-’i futūḥ al-Shām

Tarjumah-’i futūḥ al-Shām (Wāqidī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 747 or 8-823)

Title: Tarjumah-’i futūḥ al-Shām; ترجمۀ فتوح الشام
Notes: The legendary history of the early oonquests of the Muslims; The translator says in a prose preface, which occupies the first four leaves of the manuscript, and in which are inserted several poetical pieces of his composition, that he had previously written a Turkish version of the life of the Prophet, Rasūl ḥaz̤ratank sīrasī (رسول حضرتنک سیرسی), which he completed 790 AH [1388-1389 CE]; The translation appears to have been divided into four volumes (Jild), two of which, the first and the third, are contained in the present volume. Although the original is referred to as Futūḥ al-Shām, the translation comprises also the conquests of Egypt and Iraq
Main language of text: Ottoman Turkish
Bibliography
Editions: Wāqidī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar. Fütûhü'ş-şam: tarihi roman. Edited by Gülşen, Hasan. İstanbul: NR yayın, 2007.; al-Wāqidī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar. Tarih-i fütuh el-Şam. Edited by Müeyyed Sadık, Azimzade. Istanbul: Tercüman-ı Hakikat Matbaası, 1886.
Translations: Wāqidī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar. The life of Muḥammad: al-Wāqidī's Kitāb al-maghāzī. Edited by Faizer, Rizwi. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2011.
Catalogue: Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Turkish manuscripts in the British museum. London: British Museum, 1888, 38-39.