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Tarikh-e Alam-ara-ye Abbasi

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The Tārīkh-e ʿĀlam-ārā-ye ʿAbbāsī (Persian: تاریخ عالم‌آرای عباسی) recorded the history of the Iranian Safavid dynasty, from its founding under Shah Ismail I to the end, under Shah Abbas I, covering the period of 1600–1680.[1] The book was written by the special secretary and counsellor to the Safavid court of Shah Abbas I, Eskandar Beg Munshi who had been an eyewitness to most of the events or consulted other eyewitnesses.

An illustrated and illuminated leaf from the Tārīkh-e ‘Ālam-ārā-ye ʿAbbāsī by Eskandar Beg Munshi, depicting the capture of Yerevan citadel. Dated c. 1650, Isfahan (part of Sotheby's collection).

This book documents the entire history of Shah Abbas I. He covered Shah Safi in a separate book called Tārīkh-e Jahān-ārā-ye ʿAbbāsī were published separately.

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    Morley, William Hook (1854). A Descriptive Catalogue of the Historical Manuscripts in the Arabic and Persian Languages, Preserved in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. J. W. Parker. p. 135.

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