Textual criticism of errors and reading of unreadable words in Jami’ al-Tawarikh (Iran and Islam Section) based on the Translated version of Majma ul-Tawarikh

One of the most significant Persian histories is Jami’ al-Tawarikh by Khajeh Rashid al-Din Hamadani. It includes the chronicles of different ethnic groups and nations. Its “history of Iran and Islam section” was textually criticized by Mohammad Roshan based on the manuscript of the Archive and Library of the Topkapı Palace Museum in Istanbul, No. 1653, and published by Mirath Makhtub Publishing House. This manuscript is a collection of chronicles by Hafez Abrous that Mirath Maktub has published its translation. There are several errors and slips in the textually criticized text. The proofreader could not read words, he replaced them with dotted lines. In the present article, the errors were corrected, and some words replaced by dotted lines were identified. The correction method is comparative: Roshan’s textually criticized text was compared with the translation of (Majma ul-Tawarikh) and the correct forms of some of the wrong words were retrieved. In the cases of dotted lines, the text was supplemented. The research result shows that the number of errors in the textual critic’s manuscript and the number of cases left blank are considerable. Apparently, one of the main reasons that caused the textual critic to slip in reading some words or leave them blank is that most of the words in the manuscript were the basis. This article aims to make the next edition of this section more complete by showing these flaws and errors, presenting the correct forms, and completing the parts with dotted lines.