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Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia (1539-1542): Translated With Introduction and Notes (Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies) - Softcover
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The description of his mission to the court of the Shah Tahmasp I of Persia by the Venetian Michele Membre is one of the most informative as well as one of the most individual of the few European accounts of 16th century Persia.
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Mirza Mahdi Xan Astarabadi came from a Persian bureaucratic family. He had for a time served Nadir Shah (r. 17361747) as Chief Secretary and wrote two ornate histories of his master's eventful reign. The present work was written in or near 1759 as a product of his retirement. Sanglax, meaning 'Stony place', begins with a grammar of the variety of Turkish which achieved the status of a literary language in Eastern Iran and the adjoining regions of Central Asia in the 15th and 16th centuries and is known as Cagatay, but the bulk of the work consists of a Turkish-Persian dictionary. The main emphasis here is again on the vocabulary of Cagatay, though a substantial proportion of 'Rumi or Ottoman words are also listed. The work is regarded as much the most useful of the traditional dictionaries for Cagatay; its author had thoroughly studied the texts of what was by his time essentially a dead language, and above all the works of the fifteenth century poet and statesman Nawa'i. The text is given in reduced facsimile from the early MS in the possession of the E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, which was collated with the author's own copy.
In his introduction the editor discusses sources, spelling, phonology etc; he also provides thorough indices.About the Author
by Muhammad Mahdi Xan, with an introduction and indices by Gerard Clauson
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- PublisherGibb Memorial Trust
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0906094437
- ISBN 13 9780906094433
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages498
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