Tarikh-e Qarabagh

The Tarikh-e Qarabagh ("History of Qarabagh") is a book written by Jamal Javanshir Qarabaghi sometime after 1847 about the history of the Qarabagh (Karabakh) region.[1] Written in Persian — the literary language of the Muslims in the Caucasus — it was composed on the order of the Russian head of the Caucasus Viceroyalty, Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (in office; 1844–1854).[1] The book covers the history of the Qarabagh region from the arrival of the Arabs through the Muslim conquest of Iran in the 7th century, up to the Imperial Russian conquest through the Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813.[1][2]

The focus of the book primarily lays on the Karabakh Khanate from Nader Shah's era (r. 1736–1747), until the death of Ibrahim Khalil Khan (d. 1806).[1] Furthermore, a section of the work is also dedicated to the struggle between the khans from the Javanshir clan and the Armenian Meliks of Karabakh.[1]

Although written in Persian, the work of Mirza Jamal Javanshir (1773/4-1853) is actually a product of Azeri historiography.[3]

A simple translation of the book into Russian by A. Berje was published in the newspaper "Кавказ" in 1855.[4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Bournoutian 2008, pp. 602-603.
  2. ↑ Galichian 2009, p. 27.
  3. ↑ Although written in Persian, the work of Mirza Jamal Javanshir (1773/4-1853) is actually a product of Azeri historiography: its author being an Azeri noble of the Javanshir tribe, who began his lengthy career as a scribe in the service of Ebrahim, the Azeri khan of Karabakh. Robert H. Hewsen. Review of George A. Bournoutian, A History of Qarabagh: An Annotated Translation of Mirza Jamal Javanshir Qarabaghi's Tarikh-e Qarabagh, in Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies: JSAS, 1995, p. 270
  4. ↑ Karabağ Tarihi

Sources

  • Qarābāghī, Jamāl Javānshīr; Bournoutian, George (1994). A history of Qarabagh: an annotated translation of Mirza Jamal Javanshir Qarabaghi's Tarikh-e Qarabagh. Mazda Publishers. ISBN 978-1568590110.
  • Bournoutian, George (2008). "JAVĀNŠIR QARĀBĀḠI, JAMĀL". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XIV, Fasc. 6. pp. 602–603.
  • Galichian, Rouben (2009). The Invention of History: Azerbaijan, Armenia, and the Showcasing of Imagination. Printinfo Art Books. p. 27. ISBN 978-1903656860.
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