Şerefname 1- Kürt Ulusunun Tarihi - Etnoğrafya ve Coğrafya Girişi

There are those who witness the history of the nations that came to the world stage one after another and are transferred to the distant future through works; Other nations, such as the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, have won our admiration with their advances in art and science, their laws and political institutions. Karim-Khan, the founder of the Zend empire and the leader of the Persian country in the last half of the 18th century, trained many talented historians and men of letters. Among them, the great scholar Ibn-ul-Etzir of Cezire, the famous Abu'l-feda, Prince Ayubid of Hama, known as both a historian and geographer, and finally the Ottoman Sultan II. There is also the elegant historian İdris from Bitlis, who was a contemporary of Bayazıt. This work was written in Persian, the dominant language of that age, in 1596-97 AD by Şerafeddin bin Şemsettin, who also ruled the Principality of Bitlis (Erzurum Province). While it exhibits a general history of the different sultanates and principalities of the Kurdish nation, it also describes the ethnographic geography. This work was translated from Russian into French and published in 1860. Details are given in the preface of the French edition. The book you have has been translated into Turkish from the French edition. The book will consist of 2 main volumes, 4 books in total, and will contain approximately three thousand pages with comments and additional notes. We present the first book of the first volume of this giant work.