The Javaher al-akhbar (Persian: جواهر الاخبار, romanized: The Jewels of Histories) is a Persian universal history composed by the Safavid bureaucrat and historian Budaq Monshi Qazvini in 1577.
It focuses on a significant portion of the Persianate world.
[1][2] Only the section covering Safavid history has been published, which is still considered to be important as it provides a detailed account of the authors role as a secretary at the court of the Safavid shah Shah Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576), thus offering insights into the lives of bureaucrats of that era.
[3] A single manuscript containing the text is stored in the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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