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Rashīd al-Dīn Hamadānī's (d. 718/1319) Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh has been described by many as the first world history ever. Composed in Persian for the Mongol Il-khans Ghāzān (r. 1295-1304) and Öljeitü (Uljāytu, r. 1304-16), its aim was to set out the history and condition of the Mongol people, conquerors of the world (part one), followed by a description of the other peoples and nations of the world and their histories (part two). Given its unprecedented scope, Rashīd, vizier to both rulers, mobilized a whole team of specialists, informants, and collaborators to assist him in his task. Making use of written and oral sources, the part on the Mongols is a key source on the emergence and organisation of the Mongol empire, while the second part constitutes the first attempt ever at writing a history of the world. The section published here describes the history of the Khwārazmshāhs.

Persian prose literature --- Khorezm (Kingdom) --- Iran --- Kings and rulers

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This volume is a translation from Chaghatay (medieval Turkic literary language of Central Asia) of a work written by Uzbek historians Mūnis and Āgahī in the early 19th century. It contains the history of Khorezm, especially detailed for the 18th and early 19th centuries, and it is an outstanding example of Central Asian historiography. The book is the first Western translation of this historical work and the first such translation of a major Chaghatay source for the history of Central Asia in the 18th-19th centuries. Besides the translation, the book includes extensive historical and philological notes and detailed introduction discussing the historical background of the period when the work was written, the biographies of the authors, the history of the text, and its sources.

Khorezm (Kingdom) --- Kha¯rezm --- History. --- Histoire --- -History --- Khārezm --- Khwārezm (Kingdom) --- Khwarizm (Kingdom) --- Chorasmia (Kingdom) --- Khwarezmia (Kingdom) --- Khwarazm (Kingdom) --- Khoresm (Kingdom) --- Khorasam (Kingdom) --- Harezm (Kingdom) --- Chorezm (Kingdom) --- Khivinskoe khanstvo --- History --- Khorezm (Kingdom) - History. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history

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Ancient Chorasmia was a polity which belonged to the Indo-Iranian cultural koine of Central Asia. It was situated at the northern borders of these territories surrounded by deserts, thus relatively isolated as an "oasis" during its long history. After the pioneering work of Soviet archaeologist S.P. Tolstov and colleagues in the region (correspondent with parts of today's Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), the polity has been neglected and since then the idea of its cultural isolation in the frame of Central Asian antiquity acknowledged by scholars. But the history of this ancient Persian "nation" is a history of exchanges and interrelations, closely related with the social and cultural development of the whole Central Asian region and of the Eurasian Steppes. This book is centred on the study of these external relations and considers their impact on the inner development of the polity during a time span of ca. six centuries. The chosen timeframe corresponds with the period beginning with the emergence of true settled civilisation in Ancient Chorasmia - with its integration in the Achaemenid sphere of influence - and ends with the expansion of the Kushan Empire in Central Asia - after the advance of the Hellenistic civilisation. This volume presents new hypotheses on the historical position of Chorasmia within Central Asia, challenging the current established chronology which needed to be revisited in the light of the most recent scholarly and field works on the subject.

Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C. --- Material culture --- Achéménides --- Culture matérielle --- Asia, Central --- Khorezm (Kingdom) --- Amu Darya Delta (Uzbekistan) --- Asie Centrale --- Kha¯rezm --- Amou-Daria, Delta de l' (Ouzbékistan) --- Antiquities. --- History. --- Civilization --- Antiquités --- Histoire --- Civilisation --- Antiquities --- History --- Achaemenid dynasty, --- To 1500 --- Asia, Central. --- Asia --- Achéménides --- Culture matérielle --- Khārezm --- Amou-Daria, Delta de l' (Ouzbékistan) --- Antiquités --- Central Asia. --- Asia, Central - Antiquities --- Khorezm (Kingdom) - History