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MIRKHOND (1433-1498) . Mohammed bin Khawandshah bin Mahmud, commonly called Mirkhwand or Mirkhawand, more familiar to Europeans under the name of Mirkhond, was born in 1433, the son of a very pious and learned man who, although belonging to an old Bokhara family of Sayyids, or direct descendants of the Prophet, lived and died in Balkh. From his early youth he applied himself to historical studies and literature in general. In Herat, where he spent the greater part of his life, he gained the favour of that famous patron of letters, Mir `Alishir (1440-1501), who served his old schoolfellow, the reigning sultan Husain (who as the last of the Timurides in Persia ascended the throne of Herat in 1468), first as keeper of the seal, afterwards as governor of Jurjan.. At the request ofMir `Alishir, himself a distinguished statesman and writer, Mirkhond began about 1474, in the quiet convent of Khilasiyah, which his patron had founded in Herat as a house
retreat for literary men of merit, his great work
critical examination of historical traditions, and wrote in a flowery and often bombastic style, but in spite of this drawback
work
must be ascribed. For accounts of Mirkhond's life see De Sacy's " Notice sur Mirkhond " in his Mimoires sur diverses antiquites de la Perse (Paris, 1793); Jourdain's " Notice de 1'histoire universelle de Mirkhond " in the Notices et extraits, vol. ix. (Paris, 1812); Elliot, History of India, iv. 127 seq. ; Morley, Descriptive Catalogue (London, 1854), p. 30 seq.; Rieu, Cat. of Persian MSS. of the Brit. Mus. (vol. i. London, 1879), p. 87 seq. Besides the lithographed editions of the whole work in folio (Bombay, 1853, and Teheran
of the Atabeks of Syria and Persia, in Persian, by W. Morley (London, '848); Historia Ghuridarum, Persian and Latin, by Mitscherlik (Frankfort, '818); Histoire des Sultans Ghurides, trans. into French by Defremery (Paris, 1844) ; Vie de Djenghiz-Khan, in Persian, by Jaubert (Paris, 1841) (see also extracts from the same 5th vol. in French trans. by Langles in vol. vi. of Notices et extraits, Paris, 1799, p. 192 seq.), and by Hammer
Petersburg
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