Tarikh-e Qarabagh
The Tarikh-e Qarabagh is a book written by Jamal Javanshir Qarabaghi sometime after 1847 about the history of the Qarabagh region. Written in Persian, the literary language of the Muslims in the Caucasus, it was composed on the order of the then Russian Viceroy in the Caucasus, Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov. The book deals with the history of the Karabakh region from the coming of the Arabs through the Muslim conquest of Iran in the 7th century, up to the Imperial Russian conquest through the Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813.
The focus of the book primarily lays on the Karabakh Khanate; from Nader Shah's era until the death of Ibrahim Khalil Khan in 1806. A section of the work also describes the conflict between the khans from the Javanshir clan and the Armenian Meliks of Karabakh, which, according to George Bournoutian / Encyclopædia Iranica, is of special importance, as it deals with the large Armenian presence in the Karabakh region, yet is written by a writer of non-Armenian heritage.
Although written in Persian, the work of Mirza Jamal Javanshir is actually a product of Azeri historiography.
A simple translation of the book into Russian by A. Berje was published in the newspaper ":ru:Кавказ |Кавказ" in 1855.
