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Persian world histories in the Mongol era
the transmission and reception of Rashid al-Din's Jamiʻ al-Tavarikh
1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
"Examines how world histories were produced in Ilkhanid and Timurid Iran Presents Japanese scholarship on mediaeval manuscripts of histories written in PersianAnalyses histories written in West Asia from an East Asian perspectiveAddresses authorship and methodology questions arising from different text versions through a comparative analysis of a number of manuscriptsCatalogues the extant corpus of universal history works written in PersianUtilises a range of approaches from codicology and historiography to art historyThis collection of essays brings together codicological, historiographical and art-historical studies of Medieval Persian history manuscripts. The main subject is Rashīd al-Dīn's Jāmiʻ al-tavārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles). Considered the first 'world history', it was originally written in Persian in the early fourteenth century, when vast areas of the Eurasian continent were under Mongol rule. There is also a particular focus on Persian manuscripts preserved in India, which have heretofore been largely ignored. Though developed and sophisticated, Japanese studies on the Jāmiʻ al-tavārīkh remain mostly unknown outside of Japan due to the language barrier. In this volume, Japanese scholars offer their East Asian perspective on this and other West Asian histories for the first time in English, using not only Persian but also Chinese and Sanskrit sources. Through a comparative analysis of a number of manuscripts, the volume tackles various questions concerning the production of texts during the Ilkhanid and Timurid periods. It reveals valuable clues regarding the sources used in historical writings, the process of writing, revising and illustrating the manuscripts, and the production of copies and recensions in the Persianate realms under Mongol rule"--
Introduction part 1 : manuscript studies on the text and illustrations of the Jāmiʻ al‑tavārīkh from an East Asian perspective / Tomoko Masuya, Osamu Otsuka and Masatomo Kawamoto -- Introduction part 2 : studies in Japan on the manuscripts of the Jāmiʻ al‑tavārīkh / Nobuhiro Uno -- History of the transmission and reception of the Jāmiʻ al‑tavārīkh : from the history of the Mongols to the history of the world / Osamu Otsuka -- A systematic classification of Jāmiʻ al‑tavārīkh volume one manuscripts according to text characteristics / Nobuhiro Uno -- Tracing the lineage of the Rampur manuscript, a copy of 'History of the Mongols' (volume one of the Jāmiʻ al‑tavārīkh) / Nobuhiro Uno -- Reconstructing the illustrative programme of volume one ('History of the Mongols') of the Jāmiʻ al‑tavārīkh from a comparison of codicological versions / Masatomo Kawamoto -- The significance of the Rampur manuscript of the Jāmiʻ al‑tavārīkh : chronology of illustrations and influences on other manuscripts / Tomoko Masuya -- The ceremonial axe and the timekeeper bird in the 'Yuan Palace Illustration' of a manuscript of the Jāmiʻ al‑tavārīkh / Koichi Matsuda -- Where an angel hears from the Buddha : analysing the Ilkhanid translations of the Devatāsūtra / Satoshi Ogura -- Tārīkh‑i Banākatī reconsidered : beyond Rashīd al‑Dīn‑centrism / Osamu Otsuka -- Classification of Rawżāt al‑jannāt fī awṣāf madīnat Harāt manuscripts and discovery of text unpublished in critical editions / Masaki Sugiyama,
edited by Tomoko Masuya, Osamu Ōtsuka and Masatomo Kawamoto.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]