Abu'l-Ghazi's Genealogy of the Turkmen
A Khivan khan's history of the Turkmen tribes, gathered from oral tradition in 1659 to 1661.
Full title Genealogy of the Turkmen: Russian translation with critical Chagatai text by A. N. Kononov (Moscow-Leningrad 1958)
شجرهٔ تراکمه
Abu'l-Ghazi Bahadur Khan
Abu'l-Ghazi Bahadur Khan of Khiva wrote this in Chagatai Turkic between 1659 and 1661. It joins the Oghuz legend, copied from Rashid al-Din's Oghuz-nama, to Turkmen tribal traditions that he collected from elders, and lists tribes such as the Salur, Teke, Yomut and Ersari. The atlas does not hold the text: the card records A. N. Kononov's 1958 Moscow and Leningrad Russian translation, known as a web transcription, and nothing is stored.
- How they knew
- Part eyewitness
- Who “Tartar” means here
- Not recorded. The card sets this apart from Abu'l-Ghazi's other work (W038) and notes that Europeans were mapping the eastern Caspian as Tartary when it was written.
- Why read it
- Turkmen tribes describing themselves in the 1650s, just as European maps were labelling the eastern Caspian Tartary.
- Watch out
- The Oghuz legend is copied from Rashid al-Din, and the tribal lists reflect what seventeenth-century informants said. 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.
compilation of Oghuz legend (from Rashid al-Din's Oghuz-nama) with Turkmen oral tradition collected by the khan from tribal elders in 1659-1661; informant testimony
Research notes
- Oghuz legend copied from Rashid al-Din; tribal lists reflect seventeenth-century informants.
Why it matters
The other work of the Khivan khan-historian, distinct from W038; it records Turkmen tribal self-description at the moment Europeans were mapping the eastern Caspian as 'Tartary'.
Places named
Mangishlaq; Khorezm; Balkhan; Syr Darya
Peoples named
Turkmen tribes (Salur, Teke, Yomut, Ersari and others); Oghuz; Uzbeks of Khiva