Iremam - UMR 7310 - 3. Persian and Ottoman Sources

Contributors: Michel Balivet, Homa Lessan-Pezechki, Camille Rhoné-Quer.

Using comparative Turkish and Ottoman history, the research in this theme is based on the collaboration between historians and linguists, and aims chiefly to compile an anthology of previously unpublished Persian-language chronicles from the Seljuk period and early Ottoman history.
Having recently brought out a first publication on a Persian chronicle of the history of the Seljuks of Turkey : (Les Turcs Seldjoukides d’Anatolie XIe-XIVe siècle, Michel Balivet, Homa Lessan Pezechki & René Mounier, Vol. 1 Les sources persanes Ibn Bîbî, PUP-IREMAM, Le temps de l’histoire, 2016, 486 p.), the authors are preparing the publication of a second and third volume, as well as extracts of the translation of Idris de Bitlis’ unpublished Ottoman chronicles. As a mid-term goal, the entirety of this chronicle is set to be published; made up of about one thousand folios, it is an essential Ottoman history source, from Osman to Suleiman the Magnificent, which until now has only existed in manuscript form.

This comparative history research has served as the basis for a seminar : “Historical Anthropology : Medieval Anatolia, Iran & Central Asia". More...