{"title":"Shafii al-Sharif’s Subhat-al-Akhbar in the Medici Collection: Visualizing Royal Genealogy in the Persico-Islamic and the Medici Courts","authors":"Mahnaz Yousefzadeh","doi":"10.1086/697075","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"THIS ESSAY IS THE FIRST INVESTIGATION of a rare sixteenth-century Ottoman genealogical scroll that is archived in the Laurentian Library in Florence, the Subhat-al-Akhbar. The scroll’s preface identifies the author as Shafii al-Sharif, who addresses Sultan Süleyman as the sitting padshah, or king of kings. No reliable historiographical or biographical information on the production or provenance of al-Sharif ’s scroll exists. Three later versions of Subhat-al-Akhbar from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that are based on al-Sharif ’s are preserved in theViennaNational Library and theMetropolitanMuseum inNewYork. An early example of the genealogy of Ottoman rulers, al-Sharif ’s Laurentian scroll was produced","PeriodicalId":42173,"journal":{"name":"I Tatti Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"159 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"I Tatti Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/697075","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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THIS ESSAY IS THE FIRST INVESTIGATION of a rare sixteenth-century Ottoman genealogical scroll that is archived in the Laurentian Library in Florence, the Subhat-al-Akhbar. The scroll’s preface identifies the author as Shafii al-Sharif, who addresses Sultan Süleyman as the sitting padshah, or king of kings. No reliable historiographical or biographical information on the production or provenance of al-Sharif ’s scroll exists. Three later versions of Subhat-al-Akhbar from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that are based on al-Sharif ’s are preserved in theViennaNational Library and theMetropolitanMuseum inNewYork. An early example of the genealogy of Ottoman rulers, al-Sharif ’s Laurentian scroll was produced