The Zubdat al-Tawarikh ('Cream of Histories') is an Ottoman genealogy written in Turkish nashki script by calligrapher Sayyid Loqman Aşuri and illuminated throughout with miniatures by painters al-Sayyid Lutfi, Molla Kasım (Mulla Qasim) and Ustad Osman and their workshop, in 1583, for Sultan Murad III.^[1] The manuscript is in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul (TIEM 1973).^[2]

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Sources[edit]

• Kutluay, Sevgi (2023). "Zubdat al-Tawarikh ('Cream of Histories')". Discover Islamic Art. Museum With No Frontiers.
• Minorsky, V. (1958). A Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts and Miniatures. The Chester Beatty Library. Hodges Figgis & Co. Ltd. pp. 21–5.

Further reading[edit]

• Ölcer, Nazan; Grabar, Oleg (1993). In Pursuit of Excellence: Works of Art from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts. Istanbul: Ahmet Ertug. pp. 42, 52–6.
• Renda, G'nsel (1978). "The Miniatures of the Zubdat Al- Tawarikh". Turkish Treasures (Culture / Art / Tourism Magazine). No. 1. pp. 26–35.
• Shareef, Fatima (2008). A Critical Edition of Zubdat Al-Tawrikh of Nurul Haq Mashriqe Dehlavi (PDF) (PhD thesis). Aligarh Muslim University.

External links[edit]

• Media related to Zubdat al-Tawarikh from 1583 at Wikimedia Commons