By TCN News
New Delhi: The Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari released a book entitled “Ziauddin Barni’s Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi” brought out by Rampur Raza Library, Rampur (UP) under Ministry of Culture at a function here today.
Addressing on the occasion, Hamid Ansari lauded the efforts of Rampur Raza Library for bringing out such a valuable historical publication and hoped that the students and researchers will benefit with this publication. He said that throughout the length and breadth of India, there are vast collection of such books and manuscripts.
Ziauddin Barni(1285-1357) was a historian in fourteenth century Delhi. He was able to achieve the status of Secretary (Nadeem) to Sultan Mohammad Bin Tuglaq (1325-51 AD).
He wrote Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi which covers the reign of Ghiyasuddin Balban and Firoz Shah Tughlaq. There are two versions of Tarikh, the first version apprared in the fifth year of Firoz Shah Tuglaq, the second revised edition in the seventh year.
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan edited and published the second version of it in 1866. Rampur Raza Library has published the first version of Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi in 2013.