The ''Tarikh-e Qarabagh'' () is a book written by

Mirza Jamal Javanshir Mirza Jamal Javanshir () was an Azerbaijani historian and politician, best known as the author of ''Tarikh-e Qarabagh (History of Karabakh)''. Early life He was born in 1773 as a member of the Hajili clan of the Javanshir tribe. His father Moh ...

sometime after 1847 about the history of the Karabakh region. Written in Persian, the literary language of the Muslims in the Caucasus, it was composed on the order of the then Russian Viceroy of the Caucasus,

Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (russian: Князь Михаи́л Семёнович Воронцо́в, tr. ; ) was a Russian nobleman and field-marshal, renowned for his success in the Napoleonic wars and most famous for his participati ...

(in office 1844–1854). The book deals with the history of the Karabakh region from the coming of the Arabs through the

Muslim conquest of Iran The Muslim conquest of Persia, also known as the Arab conquest of Iran, was carried out by the Rashidun Caliphate from 633 to 654 AD and led to the fall of the Sasanian Empire as well as the eventual decline of the Zoroastrian religion. The r ...

in the 7th century, up to the

Imperial Russian The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. The ...

conquest through the Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813. The focus of the book primarily lies on the Karabakh Khanate, from

Nader Shah Nader Shah Afshar ( fa, نادر شاه افشار; also known as ''Nader Qoli Beyg'' or ''Tahmāsp Qoli Khan'' ) (August 1688 – 19 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian h ...

's era (r. 1736–1747) until the death of

Ibrahim Khalil Khan Ibrahim Khalil khan Javanshir (1732–1806) was an Azerbaijani Turkic khan of the Karabakh Khanate from the Javanshir family, who succeeded his father Panah-Ali khan Javanshir as the ruler of the khanate. Early life He was born in c. 1732 in ...

in 1806. A section of the work also describes the conflict between the khans from the

Javanshir clan The Javanshirs ( az, Cavanşirlər; fa, جوانشیران – ''Javānširān'') are a Turkic clan from Karabakh, who belong to the Afshar tribe and are in turn a branch of the Oghuz Turks. Between 1748 and 1822, members of the Javanshir clan ...

and the Armenian Meliks of Karabakh, which, according to George Bournoutian, is of special importance, as it deals with the large Armenian presence in the Karabakh region, yet is written by an author of non-Armenian heritage. Although written in Persian, the work of Mirza Jamal Javanshir is actually a product of Azeri historiography. The original manuscript is kept at the archives of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences in Baku. A simplified translation of the book into Russian by

Adolf Berge Adolph Bergé or Adolf Pyetrovich Berzhe (russian: Адольф Петрович Берже) (July 28, 1828, St. Petersburg – January 31, 1886, Tiflis) was an Imperial Russian bureaucrat and an Orientalist historian, with principal interests in ...

was published in the newspaper ''Kavkaz'' in 1855. Accurate Russian and Azerbaijani translations of the work were published by the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1959. In a 1989 Azerbaijani translation of the work edited by Nazim Akhundov, the text was deliberately altered to exclude mentions of Armenians. George Bournoutian published an annotated English translation of the work in 1994, as well as a second edition in 2004''.''

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* * * * * * *{{Cite journal, last=Kemaloğlu, first=Muhammet, date=2014, title=Karabağ Tarihi, url=http://turkoloji.cu.edu.tr/pdf/mirza_cemal_karabag_tarihi.pdf, journal=Hikmet Yurdu, volume=7, issue=14, pages=209–225

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