page_title: Shajara-i Tarākima
section_title: Content
hierarchical_section_title: Shajara-i Tarākima / Content
caption_attribution_description: Azərbaycanca: 100 manat. Türkmenistan
context_page_description: Shajara-i Tarākima is a Chagatai-language historical work completed in 1659 by Khan of Khiva and historian Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur.
  Shajara-i Tarākima is one of the two works composed by Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur that have great importance in learning Central Asian history, the other being the Shajara-i Turk, which was completed by his son, Abu al-Muzaffar Anusha Muhammad Bahadur, in 1665. Shajara-i Tarākima describes the history of Turkmens since ancient times, the birth and life of the ancient ancestor of all Turkmens and the progenitor hero of all Turkic peoples - Oghuz Khan, his campaigns to conquer various countries and regions of Eurasia, as well as the rule of the Oghuz-Turkmen khans in the Middle Ages. Shajara-i Tarākima is also a significant literary work, as it describes numerous Turkmen folk legends, tales, etymologies of ethnonyms, proverbs and sayings.
context_section_description: Shajara-i Tarākima can be divided into three parts: information of a biblical nature (the legend of Adam); information based on the Oghuz-Turkmen epic, which includes the legend of Oghuz-Khan and his descendants, and information acquired through oral tradition about the origin, division and location of the Oghuz tribes (in particular, the legend of Salyr), about Tamga, Ongons and others.
  Shajara-i Tarākima roughly follows Rashīd ad-Dīn’s already Islamized and Mongolized (post-conquest) version about the origin of Oghuz Khan and Turks (Turkmens). But in his account, Oghuz Khan is fully integrated into Islamic and Mongol traditional history. The account begins with descent from Adam to Noah, who after the flood sends his three sons to repopulate the earth: Ham was sent to Hindustan, Sam to Iran, and Yafes was sent to the banks of the Itil and Yaik rivers. Yafes had eight sons named Turk, Khazar, Saqlab, Rus, Ming, Chin, Kemeri, and Tarikh. As he was dying, he established Turk as his successor.
caption: 100 Manat banknote of Turkmenistan depicting Oghuz Khan
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