The ''Sharafnama'' (

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish languages *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern Kurdistan **Eastern Kurdistan **Northern Kurdistan **Western Kurdistan See also * Kurd (dis ...

: شەرەفنامە Şerefname, "The Book of Honor",

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: Sharafname, شرفنامه) is the famous book of Sharaf al-Din Bitlisi (a medieval

historian and poet) (1543–1599), which he wrote in 1597, in

. ''Sharafnama'' is regarded as an important and oldest source on Kurdish history. It deals with the different

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such as, Saladin the Great and his Ayyubid Dynasty,

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and

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Kurdish principalities in the

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, as well as some mentioning about the pre-Islamic ancestors of the Kurds.

History

Sharaf Khan Bidlisi Sharaf al-Din Khan b. Shams al-Din b. Sharaf Beg Bedlisi ( Kurdish: شەرەفخانی بەدلیسی, ''Şerefxanê Bedlîsî''; fa, شرف‌الدین خان بن شمس‌الدین بن شرف بیگ بدلیسی; 25 February 1543 – ) wa ...

was born on February 25, 1543, son of ''Shamsaddin Batlisi'', in the Garmrood village. In 1576 Tahmasb of the

Safavids Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...

gives him the title the ''

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'' of ''Mirs'' (" commander of commanders"); appoints him leader of all Iranian Kurdish tribes. In 1578, ''Sharafkhan'' abandons his previous stand, and supports the Ottomans in their war against the Iranians, offering them 400 soldiers. Between 1578 and 1588, Sharafkhan virtually led all the Ottoman wars against the

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. Sultan Murad III, the Ottoman Sultan, grants Sharafkhan the title of Khan. He becomes the ''Mir'' of the ''Batlisi province''. As he turned 53, Sharafkhan gives the authority of his dynasty to his son ''Shamsaddin Bag Abu Alma'ali''. He begins writing the book ''Sharafnama'' in 1597.

Translations

In 1873–1875, ''François Charmoy'', a French scholar, translated it from

into French and published it in

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. At the right, it is a Kurdish–French dictionary, made by ''Alexandre Jaba'', and published in 1879 in Saint Pertersburg, too. The Sherefname has been translated into the languages German,

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, English, Ottoman,

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, and Turkish. In 1972 the Kurdish scholar Abdurrahman Sharafkandi, translated the book from

into

Gallery

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as a province in

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of Ayyubid (right). File:L'armée de Saladin.jpg, Battle of Hattin

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