One Treaty with several different texts: A Critical review of the text of the First Treaty of Erzurum

The two-year war between Iran and the Ottomans (1821-23) ended with the signing of the First Treaty of Erzurum. The Turkish text of the treaty differs in some places from its Persian version. There also exist several different versions of the text in Persian. An edited text is not yet available. In a published article, Qāem Maqāmi tried to present an emended text of the treaty. His work is incomplete though. In his review, Qāem Maqāmi did not see the Turkish text of the treaty itself. Certain renditions of the text of the treaty had not been published yet at the time and were not accessible to him.In the present article, first, several important but different editions of the treaty are introduced, and then the first Article of the treaty, containing several key points, is examined.