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A Lost Source for the Reign of Shah cAbbas: the Afżal al‐tawārīkh of Fazli Khuzani Isfahani

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Charles Melville*
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge

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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1998

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References

1. See Storey, Persian Literature, I/I, 311.Google Scholar

2. A supplementary handlist of the Muhammadan manuscripts … in … the University and Colleges of Cambridge (Cambridge, 1929), 139, 313.Google Scholar

3. Melville, Charles “Shah cAbbas and the Pilgrimage to Mashhad,” in idem, ed., Safavid Persia (London, 1996), 211-12.Google Scholar

4. Ibid., 225, note 78.

5. Beg Munshi, Iskandar cĀlam-ārā-yi cAbbāsī, ed. Afshar, Iraj 2 vols. (Tehran, 1334-5/1955-6), 837, 968, 1013.Google Scholar

6. For the Khuzanis, see Haneda, M. “La famille Ḫūzānī d'Isfahan (15e-17e siècles),” Studia Iranica 18 (1989): 77-92CrossRefGoogle Scholar (see esp. 89-91). Recent use of the first volume of the Afżal al-tawārīkh has been made by Morton, A.H.The Early Years of Shah Ismacil in the Afżal al-tavārīkh and Elsewhere,” in Melville, C. ed., Safavid Persia, 27-51Google Scholar (see esp. 28-31).