[1][2] The focus of the book primarily lies on the Karabakh Khanate, from Nader Shah's era (r. 1736–1747) until the death of Ibrahim Khalil Khan in 1806.
[1] A section of the work also describes the conflict between the khans from the Javanshir clan and the Armenian Meliks of Karabakh, which, according to George Bournoutian, is of special importance, as it deals with the large Armenian presence in the Karabakh region, yet is written by an author of non-Armenian heritage.
[1] Although written in Persian, the work of Mirza Jamal Javanshir is actually a product of Azeri historiography.
[5] Accurate Russian and Azerbaijani translations of the work were published by the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1959.
[6] In a 1989 Azerbaijani translation of the work edited by Nazim Akhundov, the text was deliberately altered to exclude mentions of Armenians.