Ziya'-ud-Din Barani

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Ziya'-ud-Din Barani or Ziya'-ud-Din Barni , Persian and Urdu:ضیاء الدین برنی, DMG Żiyāʾ ad-Dīn Baranī , Hindi: ज़ियाउट्टीन बरनी (* 1285 ; † after 1357) was an Indian historian and the first known Muslim to write a history of India. He was a high official (with the title of Nadim ) who lived for seventeen years at the court of Sultan Muhammad Tughlak .

In addition to the account of Ibn Batuta, his story, written in Persian , is one of the best sources about this ruler. This Tārīkh-e Fīrūzshāhī , written in 1357, contains a history of the Sultans of Delhi from the Islamic year 662 (1263) to the year 758 (1357). However, his story is not to be construed as a factual report, but is intended to show that the Sultans of Delhi succeeded in adhering to Islamic law, or failed because they did not.

Works

  • Tārīkh-e Fīrūzshāhī , a moralistic history work on the Sultans of Delhi
  • Fatāwā-ye Jahāndāri , a philosophical work on good government

Both books complement each other. The historical work is intended to substantiate Barani's philosophy of history with the government of the sultans of the last hundred years, and the philosophical book underpins Barani's view of history as an application of Islamic law.

Translations

  • Henry Miers Elliot , John Dowson : The History of India as told by its own Historians. London 1867-1877
  • Z̤iyāʾ al-Dīn Baranī: Tārīkh-e Fīrūzshāhī . English: Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahia / Zia-ud Din Barni; Translated from Urdu and edited by HM Elliot, John Dowson. Sang-E-Meel Publications, Lahore 2006, ISBN 969-35-1803-9 . (Previous ed. Sind Sagar Academy, Lahore 1974)

expenditure

  • Saiyid Aḥmad Ḫān, Wīlyam Nāsau Līs et al. (Eds.). The Tarikhi Feroz-Shahi of Ziaa al-Din Barni . Repr. Of the ed. Calcutta 1860-1862. Osnabrück: Biblio Verl., 1981.
  • Shaikh Abdur Rashid (ed.): Tārīh-i Fīrūzšāhī / Šaiḫ 'Abd-ar-Rašīd (ed.). Ḍiyāʾ-ad-Dīn Baranī . Aligarh: Muslim Univ., Department of History, 19XX
  • Bih Taṣḥīḥ, Sar Sayyid Aḥmad (eds.). Tārīḫ-i Fīrūz Šāhī ( Ḍiyāʾ -ad-Dīn Baranī). ʿAlīgaŕh: Sar Sayyid Akaid́amī, ʿAlīgaŕh Muslim Yunīv., 2005.

literature

  • Arbind Das: Arthashastra of Kautilya and Fatawa-i- Jahandari of Ziauddin Barani: An Analysis. Pratibha Prakashan, Delhi 1996, ISBN 81-85268-45-2 .
  • Abraham R. Fuller, A. Khallaque (transl.): The reign of ʿAlāuddīn Khiljī. Translated from Zia-ud-Din Barani's Tarīkh-i-Firūz Shāhī. Pilgrim Publ., Calcutta 1967.
  • Peter Hardy: Historians of Medieval India, Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writing. Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi 1960. (Reprinted 1997, ISBN 81-215-0780-4 )

Name variants

Ḍiyāʾ-ad-Dīn Ḍiyāʾ-Barnī, Barni, Zia-ud-din Barani, Ziauddin Barani, Barani, Diya-ad-Din Barani, Ziya'-ud-Din Barni, Ziaa-al-Din Barni

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Hardy: Historians of Medieval India, Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writing. Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi 1997, pp. 29 and 39.
  2. ↑ Peter Hardy: Historians of Medieval India, Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writing. Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi 1997, p. 25 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Ziya'-ud-Din Barani
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziya'-ud-Din Barni; Nadim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1285
DATE OF DEATH after 1357