Compendium of Chronicles | Primary sources for 1200

The official Ilkhanid history, compiled from Mongol oral tradition and the lost Altan Debter. Its first volume describes the Turkish and Mongol tribes as they were before Chinggis Khan and narrates Temujin's rise year by year: for 1200 the alliance with Toghrul Ong Khan of the Kereyit, the campaigns against the Tayichi'ut and the Tatars, the Naiman under Tayang and Buyiruq, the Merkit, the Onggirat, the Oirat and the Ongud, and Jamuqa's coalition of 1201. It is the fullest account of the steppe in 1200 and the main check on the Secret History; the dates are Rashid al-Din's own reckoning, often a year adrift, and the tribal lists are schematic.

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Title: Jami al-tawarikh
Author: Rashid al-Din Fadl Allah Hamadani
Author's dates: 1247 to 1318
Written: 1300 to 1311, at Tabriz
Language: Persian
Covers: the Turkish and Mongol tribes; Chinggis Khan and his successors to 1304; a universal history
Kind: History

The Soviet Russian translation (1946 to 1952) is complete for the Mongol history and free at vostlit; the tribal section is in vol. 1 book 1 and Temujin's rise in vol. 1 book 2. Thackston's and Boyle's English are in copyright.

Where to read it

Editions

A. A. Romaskevich, L. A. Khetagurov and A. A. Ali-zade (eds), Jami al-tawarikh, vol. 1 part 1 (Moscow, 1965) and later volumes, Persian (not freely online)

Translations

L. A. Khetagurov, O. I. Smirnova and others, Rashid-ad-Din, Sbornik letopisei, 3 vols (Moscow and Leningrad, 1946 to 1952), Russian, at vostlit.info (vol. 1 book 1 section 1; the rest follows)
W. M. Thackston, Rashiduddin Fazlullah's Jami'u't-tawarikh: Compendium of Chronicles, 3 vols (Cambridge, Mass., 1998 to 1999), English (not freely online)
J. A. Boyle, The Successors of Genghis Khan (New York, 1971), English of part 2 (not freely online)

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