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HISTORIA dos Portugueses no Malabar por Zinadim: Manuscrito Árabe do Século XVI. Lisboa. 1898. - HISTORIA dos Portugueses no Malabar por Zinadim: Manuscrito Árabe do Século XVI . Publicado e Traduzido por David Lopes. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1898. CIV, [96], 134, [4] pp., 3 est.: il.; 250 mm. First Portuguese edition of one of the rare Asian sources on Portuguese expansion in the Indian Ocean, compiled by David Lopes, a leading orientalist and Arabist in early 20th-century Portuguese historiography. This work presents, translated from Arabic and accompanied by an extensive critical introduction, the chronicle of Zayn al-Din al-Malabari (Zinadim), composed around 1583 and dedicated to Sultan Ali Adil Shah of Bijapur. It is an account written from a Muslim perspective about the arrival and expansion of the Portuguese on the Malabar coast, narrating the resistance of the Moors of Calicut and Admiral Kunjali Marakkar against Portuguese rule between 1498 and the fall of the Chalé fortress in 1571. It constitutes one of the very rare contemporary Asian testimonies of the Portuguese presence in the East, and the only one of Muslim origin known at that time. David Lopes compared four Arabic manuscripts (British Museum, Asiatic Society, and India Office) to establish the text, preceding it with an introduction of over one hundred pages on trade in India, the history of Malabar, the Christians of St. Thomas, and the Jews of Cochin. The edition has since become an indispensable reference work for historians of Portuguese expansion in the East, only being republished in 1998, and even then without the original introductory apparatus. Rare and prized. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate