A Plea for Chivalry in Hast Bihist VI: Restoring Sermon 11 of.Ali ibn Abi.alib

Dehqan, Mustafa (2023) A Plea for Chivalry in Hast Bihist VI: Restoring Sermon 11 of.Ali ibn Abi.alib. ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 76 (4). pp. 621-629. ISSN 0001-6446

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Abstract

The important role that the Hast Bihist VI of Idris Bidlisi (1457-1520) and the detailed accounts he devoted to the reign of Murad II (1421-1444; 1446-1451) played in the development of early modern Ottoman historiography cannot be denied. Although the work was popular in the Ottoman world, especially its court circles, where its handsome copies were avidly produced, it was never prepared as a critical edition in its original Persian in the modern Ottoman studies departments. The following discussion concentrates on an editorial emendation that shows the carelessness of Bidlisi in the transmission of his quotations. The formation of the Sufi and Shiite elements within Book VI of Hast Bihist is only briefly discussed.

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