Firdaws Al-Iqbal: History of Khorezm

Boston: Brill, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. 9 3/4" X 6 1/2". lxxvii, 718pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Small crease to top corner of front of jacket. Bound in red cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Mild rubbing to boards and spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
This volume is a translation from Chaghatay (medieval Turkic literary language of Central Asia) of a work written by Uzbek historians M nis and gah in the early 19th century. It contains the (truncated) history of Khorezm, especially detailed for the 18th and early 19th centuries, and it is an outstanding example of Central Asian historiography.
The book is the first Western translation of this historical work and the first such translation of a major Chaghatay source for the history of Central Asia in the 18th-19th centuries.
Besides the translation, the book includes extensive historical and philological notes and detailed introduction discussing the historical background of the period when the work was written, the biographies of the authors, the history of the text, and its sources.(Publisher). (Inventory #: 16302)