Giyas ad-Din Hondemir ( Pers. غیاثالدین خواندمیر) (1475, Herat - circa 1535, Gujarat ) - Persian historian, grandson and pupil of the historian Mirhond , served in the Timurid yards, then the Safavids and finally the Moghols .
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Biography
The grandson of the historian Mirkhond , after whose death in 1498, he processed and completed the seventh volume of his general history, “Rausat us-saf” (“The Garden of Purity”) and its geographical addition, using, like his grandfather, the patronage of the Minister of Timurid Sultan Hussein-i- Baikar and the enlightened patron of the era of Alisher Navoi and his vast collection of manuscripts of historical writings.
He wrote his universal history “Habib-us-Siyar”, for three years (1521–1524), devoting it to his patron, the governor of Herat, Khoja Habibullah, after whom history is named. At the invitation of Sultan Babur , one of the Timurids, Khondemir arrived in Agra at his court in 1527/28 , at the suggestion of his successor Humayun, compiled the rules and legalizations of Humayun and a description of the buildings erected by him under the name “Humayun-name” (1533/34) .
The book "Habib al-Siyar" (Friend of biographies) was repeatedly published in Iran , the last 4-volume edition was published in Tehran in 1954.
Literature
List of Works
- Friend biographies = Habib us-siyar.
- The conquest of Khorasan Sheibani Khan. The participation of Turkmen in the struggle of Uzbeks and Iranians for Khorasan // Materials on the history of Turkmen and Turkmenistan / Ed. V. V. Struve et al. - M. - L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1938. - T. II. XVI — XIX centuries. Iranian, Bukhara and Khiva sources. - pp. 39-52. - 700 s.
- An excerpt from volume 3 of "Habib as-Siyar" - "Friend of Biographies" // Mirgaleyev I.M. Materials on the history of the Golden Horde Wars with Timur's empire . - Kazan: Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, 2007. - pp. 42-55. - 108 s. - 500 copies - ISBN 978-5-94981-084-2 .
- The essence of tradition = Halasat al-Akhbar.
- History of the Mongols: From ancient times to Tamerlane / Trans. V.V. Grigoriev . - SPb. : In type. K. Kraya, 1834. - XII, 159 p.
- An excerpt from “Khalasat al-Akhbar” - “The Essence of Traditions” // Mirgaleyev I.M. Materials on the history of the Golden Horde wars with Timur's empire . - Kazan: Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, 2007. - P. 39—42. - 108 s. - 500 copies - ISBN 978-5-94981-084-2 .
Bibliography
- V.V. Trepavlov . History of the Nogai Horde. Moscow. Publishing firm "Oriental Literature", RAS
Links
- HONDEMIR. Friend biographies . Eastern literature . The appeal date is May 18, 2011. Archived August 24, 2011.