The Activity of Muhammad Yaqubbek in the Khuqand Khanate

Islam in Iran temporarily break Iranian royalty pattern but soon the Arabs also were modeled and Iranian dynasties who came to power from the tenth century AD peak reached. Saffarids were one of dynasties that had prominent role in revival of Iranian royalty pattern. When Yaqoub came to power, a big territorial section of Iran was released from Abbasid's dominion. Yaqoub who dreamt about reestablishing the Iranian Royalty pattern undertook some of the royal functions and proved that he is capable of requirements them. He claimed that he belonged to ancient royal dynasties and acted the same by holding royal reverence. His effort to revival of Iranian royalty pattern caused a war with the Caliph. Therefore, he went to war with the Caliph but failed and returned to JondiShapour. Up to his last breath he wanted to take his revenge on Caliph but his life did not suffice. This article seeks with analytical method to Yaqoub attempts regarding the revival of Iranian royal pattern and the change in his inclination from regional to national manner of ruling and his relation with the caliph.

2016

The purpose of the article is the introduction and critical study of new materials about Qazaq political and commercial relations with the Central Asian khanates. This article is primarily based on the Bukharan narrative sources as well as archival documents in the Turkic and Russian languages from the Central State Archives of Kazakhstan (Almaty), which contain material not yet analyzed from our perspective. These primary sources contain the most important and comprehensive information on the various aspects of the history of the Qazaqs and their relations with the Central Asian principalities in the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries. Relations between Qazaq khans and other Central Asian khanates took various forms. The periods of military conflict between Qazaq Jüzes and Central Asian khanates and mutual attacks alternated with periods of peaceful neighbourly relations. Some Qazaq khans and sultans found in the Central Asian khanates a refuge from their pursuers; others maintained vassal relations with the Central Asian states.

Acta Orientalia Hungaricae. 65(2012): 391-417

This article revisits the complex oeuvre of the Timurid historian Sharaf al-Dīn 'Alī Yazdī. Yazdī is most famous for two chronicles that he wrote: The Ẓafarnāma, which mainly includes a biography of Timur, and the Muqaddima, a work devoted mainly to the history of Chinggis Khan and his descendants. However, recent studies have demonstrated that Yazdī left behind three other historical works or parts thereof: the Dībācha, the Second Maqāla, and the fragments of the Fatḥnāma-yi Humāyūn found in the Dīvān-i Sharaf. In this article, I argue that Yazdī could not finish his historical project and all the extant works written by him are fragments of a larger historical project. I also attempt to shed light on how they are related to each other, and propose a tentative chronology for the composition of each fragment.

Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 2020

2014

The Khanate of Khoqand emerged, flourished and collapsed during the era of Chinese and Russian imperial expansion into Central Asia. While eighteenth-century Central Asia has long been considered to have been an unimportant backwater 'on the margins of world history', this essay juxtaposes focused research in local primary sources with a world historical perspective in an effort to illuminate some of the ways in which the region remained interactively engaged with its neighbours and, through them, with historical processes unfolding across the globe. The essay argues that these interactions were substantial, and that they contributed to Khoqand's emergence as a significant regional power and centre of Islamic cultural activity in pre-colonial Central Asia.

International Journal of Architecture and Urban Development, 2013

Khoy, one of the major cities in the west Azarbaijan province is known for its nature, military, border positions, proximity to the Silk Road, including many different cultures and overall is one of the important settlements in the area. This essay investigates Khoy city's expansion, from early Islam until late Qajar (Fourth - Fourteenth century) according to historical documents. This article has been completed, by the help of different types of historical written sources, itineraries, documents and maps (Matrakiminiature and Russian map). This article also illustrates how the location of the town citadel has frequently changed during centuries. In the Fourth century (AH), the citadel was located in the west of its current position but unfortunately in the fifth and sixth centuries it has had an ambiguous location and eventually sometimes in the Seventh oreighth century was shifted to its today's location. Next centuries (eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth) until 1941AD/ 1360...

1996