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The "'''Tarikh i Yamini'''" or "'''Kitab i Yamini'''", written in Indian,<ref>André Wink, ''Al-Hind, the Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries'', (Brill, 1997), 127.</ref> in an embellished, flowery rhetorical rhymed prose,<ref>''al-Bīrūnī and the Political History of India'', M.S.Khan, '''Oriens''', Vol. 25/26, (1976), 114.</ref> is a history of the reigns of Sebuktigin and Mahmud up to 1020. Written by the historian Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al Jabbaru-l 'Utbi(al-Utbi) the Tarikh Yamini also contains information chronicling [[Mahmud of Ghazni|Sultan Mahmud's]] expeditions as well as the end of the Samanid ''Amirs'' of Sistan.<ref>''Sistan and Its Local Histories'', C. Edmund Bosworth, '''Iranian Studies''', Vol. 33, No. 1/2 (Winter - Spring, 2000), 37.</ref> Al-Utbi, being Mahmud's secretary, did not accompany the sultan, therefore his topography is deficient and his writing style consists of an explicit orthodox nature.<ref>Tej Ram Sharma, ''Historiography: A History of Historical Writing'', (Concept Publishing Company, 2005), 69.</ref> He also states that he intentionally suppressed many events, unnatural or strange that he found skeptical, that did not fit the objectives he had set down in the preface.<ref>''Miskawaih and Arabic Historiography'', M. S. Khan, '''Journal of the American Oriental Society''', Vol. 89, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1969), 728.</ref> |
The "'''Tarikh i Yamini'''" or "'''Kitab i Yamini'''", written in Indian,<ref>André Wink, ''Al-Hind, the Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries'', (Brill, 1997), 127.</ref> in an embellished, flowery rhetorical rhymed prose,<ref>''al-Bīrūnī and the Political History of India'', M.S.Khan, '''Oriens''', Vol. 25/26, (1976), 114.</ref> is a history of the reigns of Sebuktigin and Mahmud up to 1020. Written by the historian Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al Jabbaru-l 'Utbi(al-Utbi) the Tarikh Yamini also contains information chronicling [[Mahmud of Ghazni|Sultan Mahmud's]] expeditions as well as the end of the Samanid ''Amirs'' of Sistan.<ref>''Sistan and Its Local Histories'', C. Edmund Bosworth, '''Iranian Studies''', Vol. 33, No. 1/2 (Winter - Spring, 2000), 37.</ref> Al-Utbi, being Mahmud's secretary, did not accompany the sultan, therefore his topography is deficient and his writing style consists of an explicit orthodox nature.<ref>Tej Ram Sharma, ''Historiography: A History of Historical Writing'', (Concept Publishing Company, 2005), 69.</ref> He also states that he intentionally suppressed many events, unnatural or strange that he found skeptical, that did not fit the objectives he had set down in the preface.<ref>''Miskawaih and Arabic Historiography'', M. S. Khan, '''Journal of the American Oriental Society''', Vol. 89, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1969), 728.</ref> |
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Al-Utbi states when Sebuktigin invaded Afghanistan, that the Afghans were pagans given to rapine and rapacity, and that Sebuktigin defeated and converted them to Islam.<ref>''The Process of Acculturation in Regional Historiography:The Case of the Delhi Sultanate'', Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, '''Art and Culture: Endeavours in Interpretation''', Vol.1, Ed. Ahsan Jan Qaisar, Som Prakash Verma, Mohammad Habib, (Abhinav Publications, 1996), 7.</ref> |
Al-Utbi states when Sebuktigin invaded Afghanistan, that the Afghans were pagans given to rapine and rapacity, and that Sebuktigin defeated and converted them to Islam.<ref>''The Process of Acculturation in Regional Historiography:The Case of the Delhi Sultanate'', Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, '''Art and Culture: Endeavours in Interpretation''', Vol.1, Ed. Ahsan Jan Qaisar, Som Prakash Verma, Mohammad Habib, (Abhinav Publications, 1996), 7.</ref> |
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The ''Tarikh Yamini'', asserts that at the time of Mahmud's invasion of Ghur, that the rulers and people of Ghor were ''heathens''.<ref>Neamet Ullah, ''History of the Afghans'', Part I, Transl. Berhard Dorn, (1829), 77.</ref> |
The ''Tarikh Yamini'', asserts that at the time of Mahmud's invasion of Ghur, that the rulers and people of Ghor were ''heathens''.<ref>Neamet Ullah, ''History of the Afghans'', Part I, Transl. Berhard Dorn, (1829), 77.</ref> |
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The ''Tarikh i Yamini'' was translated from Persian into English in 1858 by James Reynolds under the title, ''Kitab-i-Yamini''.<ref>''Hindus beyond the Hindu Kush: Indians in the Central Asian Slave Trade'', Scott C. Levi, '''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society''', Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Nov., 2002), 282.</ref> |
The ''Tarikh i Yamini'' was translated from Persian into English in 1858 by James Reynolds under the title, ''Kitab-i-Yamini''.<ref>''Hindus beyond the Hindu Kush: Indians in the Central Asian Slave Trade'', Scott C. Levi, '''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society''', Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Nov., 2002), 282.</ref> |
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The "Tarikh i Yamini" or "Kitab i Yamini", written in Indian,[1] in an embellished, flowery rhetorical rhymed prose,[2] is a history of the reigns of Sebuktigin and Mahmud up to 1020. Written by the historian Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al Jabbaru-l 'Utbi(al-Utbi) the Tarikh Yamini also contains information chronicling Sultan Mahmud's expeditions as well as the end of the Samanid Amirs of Sistan.[3] Al-Utbi, being Mahmud's secretary, did not accompany the sultan, therefore his topography is deficient and his writing style consists of an explicit orthodox nature.[4] He also states that he intentionally suppressed many events, unnatural or strange that he found skeptical, that did not fit the objectives he had set down in the preface.[5]
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Al-Utbi states when Sebuktigin invaded Afghanistan, that the Afghans were pagans given to rapine and rapacity, and that Sebuktigin defeated and converted them to Islam.[6]
The Tarikh Yamini, asserts that at the time of Mahmud's invasion of Ghur, that the rulers and people of Ghor were heathens.[7]
Though, plagued by incorrect dates and incorrect topography, the Tarikh Yamini does contain valuable information concerning Sultan Mahmud's invasions of India.[8]
On Mahmud's 12th expedition of India in 1018-1019, the Tarikh i Yamini states, he brought back so many slaves that, "merchants came from distant cities to purchase them, so that the countries Ma wara' an nahr(Central Asia), Iraq and Khurasan were filled with them, and the fair and the dark, the rich and the poor, mingled in one common slavery.".[9]
Early translations
The 13th century Persian translation of the Tarikh i Yamini, by Jurbadqani, takes many liberties as well as introducing images not found in the original and can be considered an independent work of art, but is a reliable copy of the narrative.[10]
Modern era
The Tarikh i Yamini was translated from Persian into English in 1858 by James Reynolds under the title, Kitab-i-Yamini.[11]
References
- ^ André Wink, Al-Hind, the Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries, (Brill, 1997), 127.
- ^ al-Bīrūnī and the Political History of India, M.S.Khan, Oriens, Vol. 25/26, (1976), 114.
- ^ Sistan and Its Local Histories, C. Edmund Bosworth, Iranian Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1/2 (Winter - Spring, 2000), 37.
- ^ Tej Ram Sharma, Historiography: A History of Historical Writing, (Concept Publishing Company, 2005), 69.
- ^ Miskawaih and Arabic Historiography, M. S. Khan, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 89, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1969), 728.
- ^ The Process of Acculturation in Regional Historiography:The Case of the Delhi Sultanate, Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, Art and Culture: Endeavours in Interpretation, Vol.1, Ed. Ahsan Jan Qaisar, Som Prakash Verma, Mohammad Habib, (Abhinav Publications, 1996), 7.
- ^ Neamet Ullah, History of the Afghans, Part I, Transl. Berhard Dorn, (1829), 77.
- ^ Farooqui Salma Ahmed and Salma Ahmed Farooqui, A Comprehensive History of Medieval India: From Twelfth to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, (Dorling Kindersley, 2011), 7.
- ^ Hindus beyond the Hindu Kush: Indians in the Central Asian Slave Trade, Scott C. Levi, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 282.
- ^ André Wink, Al-Hind, the Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries, 127.
- ^ Hindus beyond the Hindu Kush: Indians in the Central Asian Slave Trade, Scott C. Levi, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Nov., 2002), 282.