History of Muqim Khan (Tarikh-i Muqim-khani)
A Bukharan chronicle of the Ashtarkhanid khans, from the sixteenth century to 1704.
Full title History of Muqim Khan: Uzbek (Ashtarkhanid) history of Bukhara and Balkh, Russian translation by A. A. Semenov, Tashkent 1956
تاریخ مقیم خانی
Muhammad Yusuf Munshi (fl. 1697-1704)
Muhammad Yusuf Munshi wrote this Persian history around 1697 to 1704. It opens with a retrospective run through Chinggisid and Shibanid history, then gives a contemporary account of Subhan Quli Khan and Muhammad Muqim Khan of Balkh in the 1690s and early 1700s, with Uzbek, Kazakh and Qalmaq relations seen from inside. The atlas does not hold the text: the corpus knows only A. A. Semenov's 1956 Russian translation, as a web transcription, and no critical Persian text exists.
- How they knew
- Part eyewitness
- Who “Tartar” means here
- Not recorded. The card notes that European maps of the time still showed Great Bukharia inside Tartary. The peoples it lists are Uzbeks, Kazakhs and Qalmaqs.
- Why read it
- A native Bukharan history from the period when European maps still put Great Bukharia inside Tartary.
- Watch out
- The Russian translation was made from Tashkent manuscripts, with no critical Persian text behind it. The atlas quotes nothing from this work.
What it says
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The fine print
How we know
mixed Part firsthand observation, part drawn from other sources.
mixed: retrospective summary of Chinggisid and Shibanid history followed by the author's contemporary account of Subhan Quli Khan and Muhammad Muqim Khan of Balkh (1690s-1704)
Research notes
- Semenov translated from Tashkent manuscripts; no critical Persian text exists.
- | Also recorded independently by the russian pass: Open web text retrieved (vostlit.info/Texts/rus11/Munschi_Yusuf/text1.p…).
Why it matters
Native Bukharan history of the period when European maps still showed 'Great Bukharia' inside Tartary; records Uzbek-Kazakh-Qalmaq relations from inside.
Places named
Bukhara; Balkh; Transoxiana; Khorezm; Kazakh steppe frontier
Peoples named
Ashtarkhanids (Janids); Uzbek tribes; Kazakhs; Qalmaqs; Khivan Uzbeks