History of Kashgar (anonymous)
An anonymous Persian chronicle of the Moghul khans and Khojas of Kashgaria, written after 1696.
Full title History of Kashgar: anonymous Persian chronicle of the Moghul khans and the Khojas of Kashgaria, Russian extracts in MIKK 1969 and Materialy po istorii kirgizov i Kirgizii 1973
تاریخ کاشغر
Anonymous (early eighteenth century)
This anonymous Persian chronicle, written in Kashgaria in the early eighteenth century, runs from the Mongol period to about 1700. It tells of the Moghul khans, the Naqshbandi Khojas and the Dzungar (Qalmaq) overlordship of the 1680s and 1690s. European geography called this region Kashgar or Little Bukharia within Chinese Tartary. The atlas does not hold the text: the corpus knows only Russian extracts printed in 1969 and 1973, as web transcriptions, and no Persian text or facsimile was found online.
- How they knew
- Compiled from others
- Who “Tartar” means here
- Not recorded. The card says European geography placed Kashgaria in Chinese Tartary, and lists Moghuls, Kirghiz, Kazakhs and Qalmaqs as the peoples.
- Why read it
- A native chronicle of the Tarim basin state that European maps knew as Kashgar or Little Bukharia.
- Watch out
- The author is anonymous, and its relation to Shah Mahmud Churas's chronicle (W194) is debated. The atlas quotes nothing from this work.
What it says
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The fine print
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
retrospective compilation (Mongol period to c.1700) with informant testimony for the seventeenth century; written in Kashgaria
Research notes
- Anonymous; relationship to Shah Mahmud Churas's chronicle debated. O. F. Akimushkin's 2001 facsimile edition (St Petersburg) not found online.
Why it matters
Native chronicle of the Tarim basin polity that European geography called Kashgar or Little Bukharia within Chinese Tartary; documents the Dzungar overlordship of the 1680s-1690s.
Places named
Kashgar; Yarkand; Aksu; Turfan; Moghulistan; Tien Shan
Peoples named
Moghul khans; Naqshbandi Khojas (Aqtaghliq, Qarataghliq); Kirghiz; Kazakhs; Qalmaqs (Dzungars)