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Art. XXVII.—Account of a rare, if not unique, manuscript History of the Seljúqs contained in the Schefer Collection lately acquired by the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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His full name and title ran as-Sulṭánu'l-A'dham Mu'izzu'd-Dunyá wa'd-Din Abu'l-Ḣárith Sinjar b. Maliksháh Burhánu Amiri'l-Múminín. His motto (tawqí') was . His prime ministers were Mu'ínu'd-Dín Mukhtaṣṣ of Káshán, Shihábu'd-Dín Abu'l-Maḥásin b. al-Faqíhu'1-ajall (nephew of the Nidhámu'l-Mulk), Sharafu'd-Dín Abú Ṭáhir Mámísá of Qum, Yaghán b. al-Káshgharí, Qiwámu'd-Dín Abu'l-Qásim, and Náṣiru'd-Dín Ṭáhir b. Fakhru'1-Mulk. His chamberlains were the Amír Ghuzughlú cf. Bundárí, p. 185, 1.16, which has , Ḥusayn al-Ḥájib, Nidhámu'd-Dín Maḥmud of Káshán, and Falaku'd-Dín ‘Alí Chatrí (cf. Bundárí, p. 225,1. 1).
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page 851 note 1 See my edition of Dawlatsháh, p. 107.
page 851 note 2 These are quoted in a fuller and somewhat different form in the Táríkh-i-Guzída, in the section dealing with the Khwárazmsháihs. A well-known parody on them by 'Ubayd-i-Zákáni will be found at p. 290, 11. 4–5, of my ed. of Dawlatsháh.
page 852 note 1 The MS. has Ḥasan b. Ḥusayn, but I suppose that Ḥusayn Jahánsúz, the son of ‘Izzu’d-Dín Ḥasan, is meant.
page 854 note 1 In a yet more celebrated qaṣida (of which the two first couplets are cited in the Tárikh-i-Guzída) occurs another allusion by the same poet to this victim of the Ghuzz:—
See my edition of Dawlatsháh, p. 66.
page 855 note 1 The numerous forms under which this name occurs are given by Houtsma on p. 281 of Bundárí.
page 858 note 1 The author of the work which forms the basis of Bundárí. See Houtsma's, Preface, pp. vi and x et seqqGoogle Scholar.
page 858 note 2 Some very pretty verses on her death by 'Am'aq of Bukhárá are given by Dawlatsháh. See p. 65 of my edition.
page 858 note 3 Cf. my translation of the Chahár Maqála, pp. 37–38 of the separate reprint.
page 861 note 1 Author of the History of the Seljúqs, edited by Bundárí; see Houtsma's, Preface, pp. xi et seqqGoogle Scholar. The following notice of his life occurs in the ‘Uyúnu’l-Akhbár (Cambridge MS. ADD. 2,922, f. 126a), under the year a.h. 532:—
page 863 note 1 This happened on Thursday, the 18th of Dhu'l-Qa'da, a.h.. 529 (= Aug. 30, a.d. 1135), according to Bundárí (p. 178), who adds that this assassination was instigated by Sinjar. Compare Anecdote viii of the Chahár Maqála (pp. 37–8) of the separate reprint of my translation.
page 868 note 1 From this point onwards my abstract of the MS. (on which this article is based) is less full, as I was pressed for time, and feared that I might not be able to finish it before leaving Paris.
page 870 note 1 Cf. Bundárí, pp. 228–9.
page 871 note 1 Cf. Bundárí, p. 230, and n. 1 ad calc.
page 877 note 1 It was, in this year that, according to Lane-Poole, Stanley (Muḥammadan Dynasties, p. 75)Google Scholar, “he reduced Mōṣil and made the various princes of Mesopotamia his vassals.”
page 879 note 1 Qur'án, xxiii, 29.
page 881 note 1 In the remainder of the MS. there appear to be several dislocations, but the lack of catchwords at the foot of each page makes it dificult to arrange the pages in order without a more careful scrutiny than the time at my disposal allowed me to make. The following arrangement seems, from my notes, to be approximately correct:—Ff. 1S3, 161, 155, 156 (end of historical portion); ff. 154, 162–165 (on Wine); fi. 157–160 and (P) 154a (on Chess). The remaining leaves (ff. 166–179) seem to be correctly arranged.
page 882 note 1 A well-known medical encyclopædia, compiled by Zaynu'd-Dín Abúi Ibráhim Isma'il al-Jurjáiní († a.h.. 531 =a.d. 1136–7) for his patron Quṭbu'd-Dín Khwárazmsháh.
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