Sources of Oriental Languages and Literatures: Central Asian Sources

From the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

De Re Militari is pleased to offer our readers sample texts from this series: Central Asian Sources.  These works include chronicles, personal memoirs, and military treatises from the Ottoman Empire, Middle East and Central Asia.  These texts are available to universities and institutions from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of Harvard University, Harvard University.  All volumes are priced between $200 and $250 (US), plus shipping.  Those interested can make inquiries at:

OTTOMAN STUDIES FOUNDATION
c/o HARVARD UNIVERSITY
398 SUMMER ST. PO.BOX 1447
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Featured Texts

Volume 45: Jumi'u't-Tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles): A History of the Mongols, translated by W.M. Thackston.  In three parts (1998-1999)

Volume 38: Mirza Haydar Dughlat's Tarikh-i-Rashidi, A History of the Khans of Moghulistan, translated by W.M. Thackston. (1996) - coming soon

Volume 24: Khwandamir: Habibu's-Siyar, Tome Three, translated by W.M .Thackston.  In two parts (1994) - coming soon

Volume 18: Baburnama, by Zahirudin Muhammad Babur Mizra, translated by W.M. Thackston.  In three parts (1993)

Volume 13: Munyatu'l-ghuzat, A 14th Century Mamluk-Kiptchak Military Treatise, translated by Kurtulus Öztopēu.  (1989)

Other Texts include:

Volume 2: Menahicü'l-insa, The Earliest Ottoman Chancery Manual, edited by Sinasi Tekin (1971)

Volume 6: The Book of Advice, The Earliest Ottoman Version of Kabusame, edited by Eleazar Birnbaum (1981)

Volume 25: Sources and Studies on the Ottoman Black Sea, I: The Customs Register of Caffa, 1487-1490, by Halil Inalcik (1995)

Volume 33: Battalname, translated by Yorgos Dedes (1996)

Volume 44: El-Fergānī, The Elements of Astronomy, translated by Yavuz Unat (1998)

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