The heavenly rose-garden
Subtitle: a history of Shirvan & Daghestan
By: by 'Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov ; introduced, translated and annotated by Willem Floor & Hasan Javadi.
Contributors: Floor, Willem M.; Javadi, Hasan.
Publisher: Mage Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781933823270
Subjects: Shirvan (Kingdom) -- History; Dagestan (Russia) -- History
Work titles: Gulistān-i iram.
Description: "The Heavenly Rose-Garden is a fascinating portrait of the Caucasus at the dawn of the modern era. Written in Persian and completed in 1845, it offered the first look at the region by a native son, {u2018}Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov. It remains the only dedicated history of Shirvan and Daghestan to this day and also contains a great deal of interesting information about the Caucasus in general during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bakikhanov demonstrates that despite differences in language, religion, and ethnicity, all the peoples of the Caucasus traveled a similar historical road and, to some extent, shared an identity distinct from the Ottoman Turks and Persians of adjacent, larger states." - from the publisher's website.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Willem Floor and Hasan Javadi; title: Preface of The Heavenly Rose-Garden; title: Introduction: Describing the borders, lands, reason for their names, the situation, languages and religions of the country of Shirvan and Daghestan; title: 1. Describing the ancient events of the province of Shirvan and Daghestan, until the time of the invasion of the arabs after the advent of Islam; title: 2. From the beginning of the coming of the Arab army until the time of the Mongol invasion; title: 3. From the time of the Mongol invasion until the advent of the Safavids, as well as the situation of the rule the Shirvanshahs. Concerning the kingship and lineage of the Shirvanshahs; title: 4. From the rise of the Safavids until the death of Nader Shah. The story of Nader; title: 5. From the death of Nader until the treaty of the government of Russia and Iran in the village of Golestan; title: Conclusion: on the lives of the people of the province of Shirvan and its neighboring regions who are authors or who have other accomplishments; title: Appendix 1; title: Appendix 2; title: Index.