Ibn Bibi

Ibn Bibi was a Persian^[1] historiographer and the author of the primary source for the history of the Seljuq Sultanate of Rum during the 13th century.^[2] He served as head of the chancellery of the Sultanate in Konya and reported on contemporary events. His best known book is El-Evāmirü'l-'Alā'iyye fī'l-Umuri'l-'Ala'iyye also called Selçukname.

Life[]

Ibn Bibi’s father, a native of Gorgan, lived for a time at the court of the Jalal al-Din Kwarezmshah and later worked at the Seljuq chancellery.^{[citation needed]} His mother was a famous astrologer from Nishapur invited to Konya by Kayqubad I.^{[citation needed]} The family was part of an exodus of Persian intellectuals from Mongol-dominated Iran.^{[citation needed]}

Ibn Bibi’s memoir is written in Persian and covers the period between 1192 and 1280.^[3] A single manuscript, produced for Kaykhusraw III, survives in Istanbul (Aya Sofya 2985). An abridged Persian version called Mukhtaṣar was produced during the author's lifetime in 1284-85. An Ottoman Turkish adaptation, sometimes called the Seljukname, is included in the Oğuzname of the early 15th century court historian . Several manuscripts of the latter survive in Ankara, Berlin, Istanbul, Leiden, St Petersburg, Moscow, and Paris.^{[citation needed]}

el-Evâmirü'l-Alâiyye fi'l-umûri'l-Alâiyye[]

H.W. Duda supplies the definitive text with a German translation in his Die Seltschukengeschichte des Ibn Bībī (Copenhagen 1959). A facsimile of Aya Sofya 2985 with an introduction by A.S. Erzi is published as El-Evāmirü'l-'Alā'iyye fī'l-Umuri'l-'Ala'iyye, Türk Tarih Kurumu Publications I, Serial No: 4a (Ankara, 1957).^{[citation needed]}

References[]

Sources[]

• H.W. Duda, “Ibn Bībī” Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. by P. Bearman, et al. (Brill 2007).
• Andrew S. Ehrenkreutz, “Ibn Bībī” Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford University Press 1991), v. 2, p. 973.

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