Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 11

Silsilat as-salatin as a historical source

1Professor, Institute of History of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Email id: labzak5@mail.ru

Online Published on 20 January, 2022.

Abstract

Manuscripts play a significant role to disclose unknown pages of history. Hajji Mir Muhammad Salim's work “Silsilat as-salatin” is one of those providing huge and valuable information on some aspects of Central Asian history in the XVI - early XVIII centuries. Mainly, the work provides historical data on the types of land ownership, properties, measuring the length and distances, routes of communication and trade. Besides, the work contains information about waqf property and the chain of main religious personnel.

Keywords

Haji Mir Muhammad Salim, “Silsilat as-salatin”, Sheibanids, Ashtarkhanids, Suyurghal, Waqf, Routes