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Two Chronicles on the History of Karabagh.

Mirza Jamal Javanshir's "Tarikh-e Qarabaq" and Mirza Adigozal Beg’s "Qarabaq Nameh."

Series: Armenian Studies Series. 7
Availability: In stock
Published: 2004
Page #: xvi + 298
ISBN: 1-56859-179-9
bibliography, glossary, index

 
$35.00

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From the beginning of the seventeenth century until the Treaty of Turkmenchay (1828) the region of Transcaucasia was nominally under Persian control. The Christians (Armenians and Georgians) and Muslims (Persians, as well as various Turkic and Kurdish people) lived under the rule of Muslim khans, Georgian princes, and Armenian meliks. The majority of Persian primary sources are chiefly concerned with the political history of Persia proper during the Safavid, Afshar, Zand, and Qajar periods. The region of Karabagh, as well as the rest of Transcaucasia, is, for the most part, allotted a cursory paragraph by the main Persian chroniclers. A number of local historians, however, have focused on the history of the various regions of Transcaucasia. Two such histories, Tarikh-e Karabagh and Karabagh-name, both written in the first half of the nineteenth century, deal with the Khanate of Karabagh. They are translated here in their entirety, supplemented by material from three other local sources, which detail the history of Karabagh and its surrounding khanates. Together, they provide new information on the history of Persia (Iran), Georgia, eastern Armenia, eastern Transcaucasia (present-day Azerbaijan), the Ottoman Empire, and Russia from 1736 to 1828.

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George A. Bournoutian

George A. Bournoutian is Professor of East European and Middle Eastern Studies at Iona College, New York. He has taught Iranian history at UCLA and Armenian History at Columbia University, New York University, University of Connecticut, Tufts University, Rutgers University, Ramapo College, and Glendale Community College. He is the author of 30 books, including The Khanate of Erevan Under Qajar Rule and From Tabriz to St. Petersburg: Iran’s Mission of Apology to Russia in 1829. His translations of primary sources such as The Chronicle of Abraham of Crete; Abraham of Erevan’s History of the Wars: 1721-1738 and documents such as Armenians and Russia, A Documentary Record, 1626-1796, Russia and the Armenians of Transcaucasia, A Documentary Record, 1797-1889, and A History of Qarabagh have received laudatory reviews in TLS, BSOAS and other important publications. Professor Bournoutian is a member of the Society for Iranian Studies and a member of the Society for Armenian Studies. He is also a frequent contributor to encyclopedias, various scholarly journals, and collections. His work has been cited in major publications and he is considered a world authority on the history of the South Caucasus in the Modem Period (1400-1900). Professor Bournoutian was born in Isfahan and grew up in Iran. He received his High school diploma from the well-known Andisheh (Don Bosco) institution in Tehran. His B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. are from UCLA. He is fluent in Armenian, Persian, Russian, and Polish and has a reading command of French. His A Concise History of the Armenian People is considered the best source in English and has been translated into Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Armenian, Russian and Japanese.

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