Genealogical tables (silsilanāma) and Cream of Histories (Zübdet-üt Tevarih), from Ottoman Baghdad
| Müellif | Abū Ṭālib Iṣfahānī |
| Materyal türü | Yazma eser |
| Dil | İngilizce |
| Kurum | Chester Beatty |
| Kaynak | Europeana |
| Not | Genealogical tables (silsilanāma) and Cream of Histories (Zübdet-üt Tevarih), from Ottoman Baghdad. Produced in Baghdad in 1598, this book provides a visual synopsis of universal history, and presents the Ottoman sultanate as its culmination. The first section is organised in diagrammatic tables to show the genealogy of the Prophet Muhammad, listing his family, household, companions and successors, up to the Umayyad caliph `Umar ibn `Abd al-Aziz (d. 720). The second part is laid out as a genealogical tree with portrait medallions: ten of these folios are now mounted separately (CBL T 423.18 to 423.24, 423.26 to 423.28). This tree follows the sequence of Islam's prophets (starting with Adam, up to the Prophet Muhammad), as well as kings and rulers, from ancient pre-Islamic Iran, then selectively through Islamic history up to the Ottoman dynasty. Two other known copies are dated to the same year (1006H), and also made in Baghdad: the political issue of righteous Ottoman power was of importance to the city, governed by the Sunni Ottoman empire, with a Shi`i majority population, and located between the Ottoman and (Twelver Shi`i) Safavid empires. Codex, ink, colours and gold on paper, 17 folios, Arabic (fols. 1-14r) and Turkish (fols. 14v-17) text in black, red and green naskh script, with illuminated headings (chaharlawh, fols. 1v-2r, sarlawh, fol. 14v), diagrammatic tables (fols. 2v-14r) and ruler portraits, (1: fols. 1-14r) Arabic introduction with genealogical tables (silsilanāma) starting with the Prophet Muḥammad, attributed to Yūsuf ibn `Abd al-Ḥādī, and (2: fols. 14v-17) Cream of Histories (Zubdat al-tavārīkh, Zübdet-üt Tevarih, of which 11 more folios are now mounted separately, also at Chester Beatty: CBL T 423.18 to 423.28), dedicated to Ottoman Sultan Meḥmed III (r. 1595-1603), copied by Abū Ṭālib Iṣfahānī (signs and dates end of first section, fol. 14r), Baghdad, Iraq, dated Shawwal 1006H, May 1598. |
Abū Ṭālib Iṣfahānī, Genealogical tables (silsilanāma) and Cream of Histories (Zübdet-üt Tevarih), from Ottoman Baghdad, Chester Beatty, https://www.europeana.eu/item/1100/6827?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=mmurvess.