This is the edition of an important historical manuscript, written by Qiwamuddin al-Fath b. Ali al-Bundari al-Isfahani (d. 643/1245), a historian and scribe of the imperial council of the Ayyubid Palace. His work titled Sana’l-Bark al-Shami in 622/1225 is an abridged version of al-Bark al-Shami written by Imaduddin al-Katib al-Isfahani (d. 597/1201) which relates the historical events of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi’s period. al-Bundari’s abridged version titled Sana’l-Bark al-Shami was not known until Professor Ramazan Şeşen, Head of the Bibliographies and Manuscripts Research Division of IRCICA (up to 2017), identified a copy of its first volume among the manuscripts in the Esad Efendi Collection at Süleymaniye Library in 1967, during his doctoral research. He prepared this copy for publication, comparing it with the existing two volumes of al-Bark al-Shami, as well as with quotations from related sources and documents.
