ARIKH-I ALFI AS A SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF KHWARAZM AND THE STATE OF GHURIDS
During the reign of Shah Akbar the Great in Northern India, a collective historical work was compiled, Tarikh-i Alfi , that intended to cover almost a thousand years of the history of Islamic civilisation. The authors of this monument could not ignore the events of the late 12<sup>th</sup> - early 13<sup>th </sup>centuries, and included a lot of information on the history of Mongol conquests. As a result, the history of the rule of two dynasties, Anushteginids and Ghurids, who for a long time fought each other for power and domination in Khorasan and neighboring regions, found its way into Tarikh-i Alfi . And while comparatively much is known about the former dynasty from historical sources both early and late, information about the Ghurids is scarce. Correspondingly, even relatively late collections such as Tarikh-i Alfi give researchers invaluable knowledge about this dynasty and its representatives. The article discusses both the source itself, as it is not widely known to Russian researchers, and its information potential regarding the history of the Anushteginid and Ghurid dynasties, as well as the Mongol conquest of Iran, Central Asia and adjacent regions. We hope to attract the attention of scholars in the field both to Tarikh-i Alfi itself, as a historical work of utmost prominence, and to specific information contained in it.