Zafarnama (Yazdi biography)
The conquest of Baghdad by Timur, folio from a Zafarnama calligraphed by Siraj al-Husaini, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Zafarnama (Persian: ظفرنامه, lit. Book of Victory) is a biography of Timur completed by the Persian historian Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi somewhere between 1424 and 28 (AH 828–832). It was commissioned by Ibrahim Sultan, Timur's grandson, and remains one of the best-known sources on Timur's life. Yazdi relied heavily on another biography of Timur, also called the Zafarnama, completed by Nizam ad-Din Shami in 1404.[1]
François Pétis de la Croix translated it into French in 1722, and it was translated into English in the following year.
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External links
- The 1723 English version of François Pétis de la Croix's translation at the Internet Archive: volumes 1 and 2
References
- ↑ Woods, John E. (April 1987). "The Rise of Tīmūrid Historiography". Journal of Near Eastern Studies 46 (2): 86, 99–101.
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