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Ta'rikh-i 'Imad al-Mulk

1 copy of Tārīkh-i ʿImād al-Mulk by ʿAbd al-Qādir Khān

Author: ʿAbd al-Qādir Khān عبد القادر خان

Title: Tārīkh-i ʿImād al-Mulk

Title: تٲريخ عماد الملك

Alternative title on title page: Mukhtaṣar al-tartīb

Author also known by the name, Ghulām Qādir Khān ibn Vāṣil ʿAlī Khān Jāʾisī

Biography of the Amīr al-Umarāʾ ʿImād al-Mulk Ghāzī al-Dīn Khān Fīrūz Jang (d. 1215 / 1800, at Kālpī), vazīr to the Mughal emperors Aḥmad Shāh (r. 1161-7 / 1748-54) and ʿĀlamgīr II (r. 1167-73 / 1754-9)

This work was written at the request of Captain Thirsby or Thoresby (Kaptān Tharsbī Ṣāḥib Bahādur)

Author also wrote a history of Kashmir: Ḥishmat-i Kashmīr (compl. 1245 / 1830)

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from AgraCopied from an original manuscript belonging to the library of

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 38 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 254 mm.

Hand(s)

Fairly clear, hastily-written nastaʿlīq

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Binding

History

Origin: 1850 - August 1898 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

Rajah Sheeva Parshad, August 3, 1898

Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

1913-08-15

William Irvine

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/6 6_190r

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Bibliography

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