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[[File:Badayuni's History- Calcutta 1865.jpg|thumb|''Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh'', Persian text, published in [[Calcutta]], 1865]]<br />
'''''Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh (منتخب التواریخ)''' or'' '''''Tarikh-i-Bada'uni''''' (تاریخ بداؤنی), '''''Selection of Chronicles''''' by [[`Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni]] (1540–1605) is a book describing the early Mughal history of [[India]], covering the period from the days of [[Ghaznavids|Ghaznavid]] reign until the fortieth regnal year of Mughal Emperor [[Akbar]].<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
''Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh'' is a general history of the Muslims in [[India]] from [[Sabuktigin]] to 1595, commenced in 1590 followed by biographies of shaykhs, scholars, physicians and poets.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Islam|last=Hardy|first=P.|publisher=E. J. Brill, Volume I.|year=1986|location=Leiden (Netherlands)|pages=857|edition=New }}</ref> [[`Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni]] began writing this history in the first half of 1590.<ref name=":1" /> The book was completed by October 1595. Its comprises on the 618 solar year's historic events. ''Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh'' is based largely on Khawaja Nīzām-ud-Din Ahmad Sirhindi's Tabakāt-i-Akbar Shāhi (also known as Tabakāt-i-Akbari), with characteristic asides by [[`Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni]].{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}<br />
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The work contains three volumes. The first volume contains historic accounts about the rulers and kings of the [[Ghaznavids]], [[Ghurid dynasty]], [[Mamluk Dynasty (Delhi)]], [[Babur]] and [[Humayun]]. It records the history of India from the coronation of [[Sabuktigin]], founder of [[Ghaznavids]] Empire (A.D 977) down to the death of Mughal Emperor [[Humayun]] (24 January 1556). The second volume covers the first forty years of Mughal Emperor [[Akbar]]'s reign from 14 February 1556 to October 1595. [[`Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni|Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni]] was Eye-witness of [[Akbar]]'s era. This volume is an unusually frank and critical account of Akbar's administrative measures, particularly regarding religion and his conduct. This volume was kept concealed till Akbar's death and was published after Jahangir's accession (approximately in 1605). The third part contains the biographical accounts of the Saints, Poets and men of letters who were either known to him, or were attached to the court of [[Akbar]]. The accounts relate to 38 Shaykhs (religious leaders), 69 scholars, 15 philosophers, physicians and 67 poets.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh|last=Badayuni|first=Mulla 'Abd al-Qadir|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributions, Volume. I|year=1990|location=New Delhi, [[India]]|pages=8}}</ref><br />
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The work is noted for its hostile comments on [[Akbar]]'s religious activities. Its existence was apparently kept secret until at least the tenth year of [[Jahangir]]'s reign (1615). When Mullā 'Abd al-Bāķī Nahawandī, author of Ma'āthir-i- Rahimī, did not know of it when he completed his work in 1616.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Publications ==<br />
The first [[Persian language]] text of this book was published in 1864 from [[Lucknow]], but is no longer available and has since likely been lost.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Mawrakhin-i-Hind|last=Qadri|first=Shams-Ullah|publisher=Matba-i- Nizam Deccan|year=1933|location=Hyderabad Deccan, [[India]]|pages=13}}</ref> The second printed edition of the text of this work was published by the College Press, Calcutta in 1865. This work was later translated into English by G.S.A. Ranking (Vol.I), W.H. Lowe (Vol.II) and [[Wolseley Haig|T.W. Haig]] (Vol.III) (published by the Asiatic Society, Calcutta between 1884-1925 as a part of their Bibliotheca Indiaca series).<br />
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Maulavi Ehtisham-ud-Din Muradabadi was the first to translate it into [[Urdu]], and it was then published by Munshi Navalkishore's Press, [[Lucknow]] in 1889.<br />
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== Abstract version ==<br />
Abd-Shukur ibn Sheikh Abdul-Wāseī Thattahvi wrote an abstract version of this book in [[Persian language]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Persian Literature in Pakistan from Jahangir to Aurangzeb|last=Ahmed|first=Dr. Zahur-ud-Din|publisher=Majlis-e-Taraqqi-e-Adab|year=2016|location=Karachi, Pakistan|pages=253}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D03601020%26ct%3D0 The Muntakhabu-’rūkh by ‘Abdu-’l-Qādir Ibn-i-Mulūk Shāh, (Al-Badāoni)] [[Packard Humanities Institute]]<br />
* [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924073036752#page/n489/mode/2up ''Tārīkh-i Badāūnī''], a translation from Volume V of [[The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians]], 1867<br />
* "Bada'uni, 'Abd al-Qadir." [[Encyclopædia Britannica]]. 2005. [http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9011694 Encyclopædia Britannica Online]. 16 Nov. 2005 .<br />
* ''[[iarchive:MuntakhabAl-tavarikhOfBadauni.Volume2.Persian|Muntakhab al-Tavarikh]]'' (in Persian) Volume 2 .<br />
* All three volumes of his Muntakhab al-Tavarikh (in English) are available and searchable here: http://persian.packhum.org/persian/<br />
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=RFNOAAAAYAAJ ''Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh, Volume 1'' (1898)]<br />
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