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The Tarikh i Yamini, or Kitab i Yamini, written in Arabic〔André Wink, ''Al-Hind, the Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries'', (Brill, 1997), 127.〕 in an embellished, flowery rhetorical rhymed prose,〔''al-Bīrūnī and the Political History of India'', M.S.Khan, Oriens, Vol. 25/26, (1976), 114.〕 is a history of the reigns of Sebuktigin and Mahmud up to 1020. Written by the historian Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al Jabbaru-l 'Utbi (or ''al-Utbi''), the Tarikh Yamini also contains information chronicling Sultan Mahmud's expeditions as well as the end of the Samanid ''Amirs'' of Sistan.〔''Sistan and Its Local Histories'', C. Edmund Bosworth, Iranian Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1/2 (Winter - Spring, 2000), 37.〕 Al-Utbi, being Mahmud's secretary, did not accompany the sultan, therefore his topography is deficient and his writing style consists of an explicit orthodox nature.〔Tej Ram Sharma, ''Historiography: A History of Historical Writing'', (Concept Publishing Company, 2005), 69.〕 He also states that he intentionally suppressed many events, unnatural or strange that he found skeptical, that did not fit the objectives he had set down in the preface.〔''Miskawaih and Arabic Historiography'', M. S. Khan, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 89, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1969), 728.〕 ==Content== The Tarikh Yamini starts in 965 CE, but the Samanids are not mentioned until Nuh ibn Mansur's reign in 976,〔 while it goes into detail about the Buyids prior to 983.〔 During the Qarakhanid invasion of the Samanid kingdom in 991, the ''Tarikh Yamini'' states that the Samanid governor Fa'iq, son of Simjurid Abu'l-Hasan Simjuri,〔''The Samanids'', Richard Nelson Frye, The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 4, ed. R. N. Frye, (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 156-157.〕 invited Hasan b. Sulayman to invade Bukhara.〔 Al-Utbi states when Sebuktigin invaded Afghanistan, that the "Afghans" were pagans given to rapine and rapacity, and that Sebuktigin defeated and converted them to Islam.〔''The Process of Acculturation in Regional Historiography:The Case of the Delhi Sultanate'', Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, Art and Culture: Endeavours in Interpretation, Vol.1, Ed. Ahsan Jan Qaisar, Som Prakash Verma, Mohammad Habib, (Abhinav Publications, 1996), 7.〕 The ''Tarikh Yamini'', asserts that at the time of Mahmud's invasion of Ghur, that the rulers and people of Ghor were ''heathens''.〔Neamet Ullah, ''History of the Afghans'', Part I, Transl. Berhard Dorn, (1829), 77.〕 Though, plagued by incorrect dates and incorrect topography, the ''Tarikh Yamini'' does contain valuable information concerning Sultan Mahmud's invasions of India.〔Salma Ahmed Farooqui, ''A Comprehensive History of Medieval India: From Twelfth to the Mid-Eighteenth Century'', (Dorling Kindersley, 2011), 7.〕 On Mahmud's 12th expedition to India in 1018-1019, the ''Tarikh i Yamini'' states, he brought back so many slaves that, "''merchants came from distant cities to purchase them, so that the countries Ma wara' an nahr (central Asia), Iraq and Khurasan were filled with them, and the fair and the dark, the rich and the poor, mingled in one common slavery.''".〔''Hindus beyond the Hindu Kush: Indians in the Central Asian Slave Trade'', Scott C. Levi, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Nov., 2002), 282.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tarikh Yamini」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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