!['The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia' [‎46] (67/684)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023553877.0x000001/Per.D.1829_0069.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia' [‎46] (67/684)")
'The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia' [46] (67/684)
The record is made up of 1 volume (448 pages). It was created in 1833. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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xlvi
preliminary matter.
me recurring to thoughts almost too painful to bear,
I have not been disappointed:
" Si quid novisti rectius istis
Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mecum.'
THE SEFFEE DYNASTY.
We now arrive at a race of Princes, who, accord
ing to any notions we entertain of good govern
ment, morality, or decency, have as little claim to
our respect as the most despicable set of despots, vil-
lains, and profligates, presented to us in any History
whatever, and whose actions fully justify the spirited
description of their character given by the late Sir
William Jones.
The founder of this dynasty was Ismail Seffee or
Sofy, whose genealogy, true or false, is generally
set forth as follows. Ismail, the son of Shaikii
Hyder, the son of Sultan Juneid, the son of Shaikh
Ibrahim, the son of Shaikh Aly, the son of Shaikh
Musa, the son of Shaikh Seffee, who was esteemed to
be the 13th in descent, in a right line, from Aly, the
son-in-law of Muhammed. The princes of this
House commenced to reign over Persia in the person
of Ismail, about the year a. d . 1500; and ended in
an infant in his cradle, set up by Tahmasp Kooly
Khan, afterwards Nadir Shah, under the name of
Abbas III. a. d . 1733; making a period of some
thing like 233 years. That the atrocities they
committed should so long have been borne by the
Persians, I can only explain, by imagining that the
Persians considered the direct descent they claimed
from the Family of the Prophet to be true and
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The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia.
Publication Details: Sutherland, London : John Bohn, 1833.
The book is a translation by Harford Jones Brydges of Maʾāsir-i Sulṭānīyah by ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Najaf Qulī, contains illustrations and two maps representing 'Part of Azerbaeejan'
Ownership: With stamps of the East India Company Library and India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Library.
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Dimensions: 223 mm x 140 mm.
Pagination: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-cxci); (1-448).
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- 'The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:vii-v, 1:194, 1:462, viii-r:x-v, back-i
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- Abd al-Razzāq ibn Najaf Qulī Maftūn Dunbalī
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