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Mongol News: The Akhbār-i Moghulān dar Anbāneh Qutb by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas’ūd Shīrāzī

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2012

GEORGE LANE
GEORGE LANE*
Affiliation:
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of Londongl1@soas.ac.uk
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Abstract

The recent unearthing of this thirteenth century collection of notes pertaining to the political history of the early Ilkhanate has thrown some light on events and attitudes of that time. Though the manuscript was actually penned by Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī of the Rasadkhana in Maragha, it is not certain that he was the author of the work. Rather than comprising one continuous narrative of events, the manuscript is a collection of notes and observations, occasionally detailed but other times very sketchy. However stamped with the seal of the Raba’ al-Rashidi there is evidence that this text was used selectively as a source for Rashīd al-Din's Jama’-ye Tavarikh. What is particularly interesting is that some of the events that are quoted in Rashid al-Dīn's chronicles are only partially reported and it is obvious that for whatever reasons parts of “Shīrāzī's” accounts are omitted in the re-telling.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 22 , Issue 3-4 , October 2012 , pp. 541 - 559
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2012

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