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16th-century Central Asian court historian and poet

Hafiz Tanish حافظ تنیش
Born	Hafiz Tanish ibn Mir Muhammad Bukhari c. 1549[i] Bukhara, Khanate of Bukhara
Died	after 1598[ii]
Other names	Nakhli
Occupations	Court historian poet
Notable work	Sharaf-nama-yi Shahi

Hafiz Tanish ibn Mir Muhammad Bukhari^{[note 1]} (Persian: حافظ تنیش بن میرمحمد بخاری;^[1] c. 1549–after 1598) was a scholar, historian, and poet in the Khanate of Bukhara. He was the court historiographer of Abdullah Khan II (r. 1583–1598) and author of the Abdullah-nameh [uz; kk; ru] (عبد الله نامه, 'Book of Abdullah'), a Persian-language history and official biography of Abdullah Khan II.^[2]

Name

The long name 'Hafiz Tanish ibn Mir Muhammad Bukhari' keeps with Muslim tradition and uses the Arabic naming system in which the ism (personal name) is 'Hafiz Tanish,' the nasab (lineage) is 'ibn Mir Muhammad,' and the nisba is 'Bukhari' or 'al-Bukhari.' The nisba can also be applied to the personal name, rendering the long name as 'Hafiz Tanish Bukhari ibn Mir Muhammad Bukhari.' Many texts use only the personal name and nisba, i.e. Hafiz Tanish Bukhari.

Several transliterations of the name are used with frequency in English-language scholarship, including

Hofiz Tanish Buxoriy in Uzbek, Hâfız Teniş Buhârî in Turkish,

Biography

Hafiz Tanish's father, Mir Muhammed Bukhari, was a Bukharan scholar and close friend of Ubaidullah Khan, Khan of Bukhara (r. 1544–1540)^[iii].

• prior to the 1583 accession, his patron was Qulbobo Koʻkaldosh [uz; kaa]

• began writing a history of Abdullah Khan II in the 1560s or 1570s

• the history was known and praised by contemporary

• became official historiographer of Abdullah Khan II after being intoroducted to court by Kulbaba in 1583 (AH 991)

Sharaf-nama-yi Shahi

• Abdullah-nameh [uz; kk; ru]
• initial plan as laid out in the author's preface

1. muḳaddima (introduction) describing the lineage of the Shaybanids from the Prophet Noah to the Prophet Muhammad through the reign of Iskander Khan I (father of Abdullah Khan II)^[1]
2. first maqala beginning with Abdullah Khan II's birth in AH 940/1533 CE to his accession in AH 991/1583 CE
3. second maqala comprises Abdullah Khan II's accession onwards
4. conclusion (k̲h̲ātima) description of the khan's qualities, prominent people during his reign, construction projects and buildings, etc.)

• "most important historical source for the S̲h̲aybānī period"^[3]

The Abdullah-nameh was named the Sharaf-nama-yi Shahi (شرف نامه شاهی), a chronogram of the date AH 992 (1584 CE, t, by Hafiz Tanish but the name Abdullah-nameh has been used in Central Asian historical . The text was described by historian Yuri Bregel as the "most important historical source for the S̲h̲aybānī period" and "one of the major works of Central Asian historiography."^[3]

• in which he included the khan's geneology and brief accounts of his Jochid and Shaybanid predecessors^[3]
• Ubaydullah: discussed his military activities and diplomatic relations with neighboring states^[4]

References

• Munira Salakhetdinova, translated portions of the Abdullah-nameh into Russian^[5]

1. Baymatov, Luqman. "حافظ تنیش بن میرمحمد بخاری". Encyclopaedia Islamica (in Persian).
2. McChesney 2012, p. 508, 513.
3. Bregel, Yu. (2000). "Ḥāfiẓ Tani̊s̲h̲". In Bearman, P. J.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E. & Heinrichs, W. P. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume X: T–U. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-11211-7.
4. Fayzullayev, Farrux (30 July 2021). "Coverage of Ubaydullah's Activities in Hafiz Tanish Bukhari's "Abdullanoma"". Journal of Look to the Past (in Uzbek and English). 4 (7): 63–71. doi:10.26739/2181-9599-2021-7-10. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
5. Башурова, О. А. [Bashurova, O. A.]. "Салахетдинова Мунира Азымовна" [Salakhetdinova Munira Azimovna]. Russian National Library (in Russian). Retrieved 10 August 2025.

Notes

1. AH 956 (1549/1550 CE)
2. AH 1006 (1598 CE)
3. r. AH 940 – 946

Sources

• Budak, Mustafa (1988–2016). "Hâfız Teniş". TDV Encyclopedia of Islam (44+2 vols.) (in Turkish). Istanbul: Turkiye Diyanet Foundation, Centre for Islamic Studies.

• McChesney, Robert D. (2012). Melville, Charles (ed.). Persian Historiography: A History of Persian Literature. Vol. X. London: I.B. Tauris. pp. 503–530. ISBN 978-1845119119.

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