Hülasatü'l-ahbar - خلاصة الاخبار

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 11196
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1005
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 128 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 128 ff. Dimensions : 206 mm x 147 mm. Script : Nesih inclining to talik.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a history of al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah (Medine) by Mehmet Aşık İbn-i Ömer (died 1032 AH/1622-23 CE). According to Babinger, the work is merely an Ottoman Turkish translation of the Khulāṣat al-akhbār (خلاصة الاخبار) of al-Samhūdī via an intermediary Persian translation.. The colophon of the text mentions that this copy is a tebyiz completed at Medine (Tayibe) in 1005 AH (1596-97 CE). It is an autograph of the author. .

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum in 1930.

Related Material

For more information on the author, see GO, pp. 154-55.