"Jalal al-din last khwarizmian shah" Topic

I am looking for the following book. Shikhab ad-Din Mukhammad an-Nasavi, Sirat as-Sultan Dzhalal ad-Din Mankburny (Zhizneopisanie Sultana Dzhalal ad-Dina Mankburny), ed. Z. M. Buniiatov, in the series Pamiatniki pis'mennosti Vostoka, vol. CVII (Moscow: Vostochnaia Literatura, 1996)

I've seen 2 copies; 1 is in Russin and Arabic; the other is in Arabic. The title of the Arabic one is simply Sirat al-Sultan Jalal al-Din Mingbirdi by Nasawi.

I'm currently in Egypt and can't find it here. The book store owners keep telling me I can only find it in Cairo, but none of the bookshops have it.

I want to purchase the book – either copy will be fine. There is a French version translated by Houdas but I have't seen a copy of this one.

If anyone knows of any contacts or suggestions as to where I can find it I'm all ears.

I have contacted the people with OMM and they have a contact in Moscow but they were unable to find it.

Salaam

Chris

Have you tried Malawi's on the corner of Alamaba and 4th in Cairo? Just kidding! See you when you get back!

The book is out of print:

link

You will need to go to a book supplier that deals in rare and out of print books.

Good luck finding it in Egypt. Where exactly are you in Egypt?

- Greg

P.S. I love Egypt and hope I can get back there again!

- Greg Pitts

email – epaminondas123@verizon.net

UCLA Libraries render the title a little oddly: Sīrat as-Sulṭān Dzhalāl ad-Dīn Mankburny = Zhizneopisanie Sultana Dzhalal ad-Dina Mankburny / Shikhāb ad-Dīn Muḳhammad an-Nasavī ; izdanie kriticheskogo teksta, perevod s arabskogo, predislovie, kommentariĭ, primechanii︠a︡ i ukazat

Might be causing problems if anyone in Cairo was using an English computer system to search for the title. :)

Try a note to Mr. Meeuws at Thornton's:

thorntonsbooks.co.uk

They're currently showing only a couple of volumes of the series in their stock, but they may be able to find a copy for you.

Allen

Not the book you are looking for but if you are generally looking for sources that cover Jalal al-Din he is mentioned in parts of the Tabakat i-Nasiri which you can get in English translation (albeit a Victorian one) by a Major-General Raverty. Search Abebooks and you should be able to get it cheap from India.

Nick, I do have the Tabakt-i-Nasiri books which do have good information, but I still want the Sirat. I did try Abebooks but no luck.

aecurtis, thanks for the link. I e-mailed them so lets if they have any luck.

jovian1, I picked up a shisha for us to have a nice smoke once in a while. You don't how bad I want to make a joke out of this but I won't…if you know what I mean. (inside joke for the rest of you).

GRPitts, I am in Alexandria and will be here for a total of 2 months. Last weekend I went over to Cairo to visit the pyramids, Salah al-Din citidal (a little dissappointed about the military museum) and the National Egyptian Museum. I also went to a park to check out the Ayyubid wall. Our tour guide kept saying the Fatimids came after the Ayyubids therefore the upper part of the wall was Fatimid. I corrected him, but he wasn't convinced.

I'm studying Arabic at the Arabic Language Center here in Alex.

nashoofek

C

Full text in Russian online here:

link

The link to the book is the second entry on the page. Well, if you read Russian, I expect you would be able to find it yourself… :-)

Imperial Forge,

Thanks for the link. Sadly, I can't read Russian. I can read (or at least studying to read) Arabic.

C

I found the Cairo eddition. I took me a while but thanks to the help from several people at the maktaba iskendira (Alexandria Library) I was able to track down where to buy the book.

The cost is 20 ginnie (approx 4 USD or 2.5 EURO).

I don't have the address/phone number with me at the moment but if anyone wants it let me know and I'll post it. Keep in mind it is in Arabic.