Sources on the Golden Horde History in the Turkic, Persian and Arabic from the National Library of Turkey (Ankara) and Suleymaniye Library (Istanbul): perspectives for the study »

In this article, the author presents the library of Sulaymaniyah (Istanbul) and the National Library of Turkey (Ankara) in the light of manuscript sources. The author gives a description of the thirteen Turkic, four Persian, and seven Arabic sources on the history of the Golden Horde. The author pays particular attention to the work of Egyptian author Ibn Taghribirdi (813–874 AH), «al-Manhal al-safi wa-al-mustawfa bada al-wafi» (Clean and completing source after the full one). This work is an extensive biographical collection of outstanding personalities of the epoch, in which Ibn Taghribirdi lived