The Ta'ríkh-i-guzída : or, "Select history" of Hamdul̓láh Mustawfí-i-Qazwíní, compiled in A.H. 730 (A.D. 1330), and now reproduced in fac-simile from a manuscript dated A.H. 857 (A.D. 1453) / with an introduction by Edward G. Browne.

The Ta'ríkh-i-guzída, or, "Select history" of Hamdul̓láh Mustawfí-i-Qazwíní, compiled in A.H. 730 (A.D. 1330), and now reproduced in fac-simile from a manuscript dated A.H. 857 (A.D. 1453) / with an introduction by Edward G. Browne.

  • Ḥamd Allāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī, active 1330-1340.
Date:
1910-13
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Credit: The Ta'ríkh-i-guzída, or, "Select history" of Hamdul̓láh Mustawfí-i-Qazwíní, compiled in A.H. 730 (A.D. 1330), and now reproduced in fac-simile from a manuscript dated A.H. 857 (A.D. 1453) / with an introduction by Edward G. Browne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on Mount Judf near Mawsil, and Noah and his companions • > leave it on Muharram lo (the ’^Ashiird). — They build a village there called [Suq] TJianidnin, “the [Market of the] Eighty” '). — Noah died at the age of 1600 years, or 1300’ years. — Since most of the inhabitants of the earth are descended from Noah, he is sometimes entitled “the second Adam”. He had four sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet, who believed and ware saved in the Ark, and Canaan {27), who disbelieved and was drowned. Shem is held by some to have been a prophet, and most of the prophets and all the Persians are descended from him. He had six sons, of whom the eldest was Arfakhshad, from whon Qahtan and Faligh were descended in the fourth generation. . The latter was the ancestor of the Persians, while most of the Arabs are descended from the former, whose son, YaTub, first spoke Arabic. From Qahtan sprang the Himyarites, the Lakhmites, and Saba (Sheba), who was the father of Quda'^a, Ash'^ari, Azd and Tayyi’. Shem’s second son, 'Alim, begot Khurasan and Playtal. The former begot 'Iraq, and the latter Kirman and Mukran. Shem’s third son was Aswad, who begot Ahwaz and Pahlu, of whom the latter begot Pars. Shem’s fourth son was Nudhar, who begot Adharbad and Arran, Arman and Mughan. Shem’s fifth son was Irani, from whom were descended the tribes of 'Ad and Thamud. Shem’s sixth son was Yafan, who begot Sam and Rum. Ham is the ancestor of all the blacks. The story of Noah’s drunkenness and Ham’s irreverence (28), and how it was punished. Ham had also six sons, Zangi, Kus, Hind, Barbar, Qibt, Habash. The last was the father of Nuba. Japhet had eight sons, Turk, Khazar, Saqlab, Rus, Bi'shak, Mughul, Gog and Magog. Chin and Machin are the sons of 1) Tabari, i, 197.