This publication is based on the translation of the most interesting and independent part of the “Chronicle” of Shah Mahmud Churas. The work is a valuable primary source on the history of East Turkestan in the second half of the 16th - 70s of the 17th century. and provides quite extensive historical material that allows us to fill the gap in the study of the rather complex foreign and domestic political situation that developed in this region during this period. Among other things, the Chronicle contains information on the history of neighboring regions, as well as hitherto unknown information about the Montenegrin Khojas, who were the founders of a special branch of the Naqshbandiyya Sufi brotherhood. In the essay one can find many interesting and valuable details for the researcher related to the history of the Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Kirghiz and Kalmaks. The translation is accompanied by a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the study of the Chronicle, a critical text of the original part of the work, as well as detailed comments.

CONTENTS: Title: 1 Abstract: 4 Contents: 5 Preface: 6 Introduction to the study of the monument: 17 Information about the author: 17 Information about the essay: 53 Title and dating: 53 Composition of the essay: 55 Sources: 60 About the language of the “Chronicles”: 95 About the translation of the “Chronicles”: 100 "Chronicle" as a source: 101 Bahr al-asrar of Mahmud Vali and "Chronicle": 102 "Chronicle" and anonymous "History of Kashgaria": 104 Information about the manuscript: 127 CHRONICLE (Translation): 134 COMMENTS: 233 Appendices: 299 Appendix 1. Participation of emirs and beks of the clan division Churas in the political life of the Mughal state at the end of the 16th - end of the 17th century: 299Appendix 2. Extract from Anis at-Talibin Shah-Mahmud Churas: 303Appendix 3. Extract from the Hidayat-name of the world of Khal ad-Din Katib: 317List of bibliographic abbreviations: 319Index: 338Index of names and dynasties: 338Index of geographical and topographic names: 356Index of ethnic names: 363Subject index: 365Summary: 369CHRONICLE (Text): 373In memory of Oleg Fedorovich Akimushkin: 491