Tarikh-e Qarabagh
The Tarikh-e Qarabagh ("History of Karabakh") is a book written by Mirza Jamal Javanshir 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 then Russian Viceroy in the Caucasus, Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (in office; 1844–1854).[1] The book deals with the history of the Karabakh region from the coming 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 in 1806.[1] A section of the work also describes the conflict between the khans from the Javanshir clan and the Armenian Meliks of Karabakh, which, according to George Bournoutian / Encyclopædia Iranica, is of special importance, as it deals with the large Armenian presence in the Karabakh region, yet is written by a writer of non-Armenian heritage.[1]
Although written in Persian, the work of Mirza Jamal Javanshir 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]
See also
References
- Bournoutian 2008, pp. 602-603.
- Galichian 2009, p. 27.
- 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
- Karabağ Tarihi
Sources
- 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Galichian, Rouben (2009). The Invention of History: Azerbaijan, Armenia, and the Showcasing of Imagination. Printinfo Art Books. ISBN 978-1903656860.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)