Shajara-i Tarākima

Shajara-i Tarākima (Chagatay: شجرهٔ تراکمه, lit. 'Genealogy of the Turkmens') is a Chagatai-language historical work completed in 1659 by Khan of Khiva and historian Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur.

Shajara-i Tarākima is one of the two works composed by Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur that have great importance in learning Central Asian history, the other being the Shajara-i Turk (Genealogy of the Turks), which was completed by his son, Abu al-Muzaffar Anusha Muhammad Bahadur, in 1665. Shajara-i Tarākima describes the history of Turkmens since ancient times, the birth and life of the legendary ancient ancestor of all Turkmens and the progenitor hero of all Turkic peoples - Oghuz Khagan, his campaigns to conquer various countries and regions of Eurasia, as well as the rule of the Oghuz Turkmen khans in the Middle Ages. Shajara-i Tarākima is a significant literary work, as it describes numerous Turkmen folk legends, tales, etymologies of ethnonyms, proverbs and sayings.

According to Abu al-Ghazi, the Genealogy of the Turkmens was written "at the request of the Turkmen mullahs, sheikhs and begs", who believed that the previous Oğuznames were full of "errors and differences" and that it was necessary to give an official version of the legend of the origin of the Turkmens.