The Gibb Memorial Trust is a registered charity, set up to commemorate the death at the age of 45 of Elias John Wilkinson Gibb. Its objective is to promote the study and advancement of research into the history, literature, philosophy and religion of the Turks, Persians and Arabs.
The books currently in print consist of editions and translations of texts in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and other languages, as well as original works of scholarship. These are mostly in English with, in some cases, copies or original manuscripts.
This substantial and largely unknown Persian chronicle of the reign of Shah ‘Abbas I (1587–1629) exists in a unique manuscript, recently discovered in the Library of Christ’s College, Cambridge....
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