Khālidī's "work as a whole is untitled, but the title Qurbān ʻalī chose for the second section was Sīmī Pālāt baladasining bināsī wa Sīmī Pālāt nāmiyla wajh-i tasmīyasī wa ānda ōlān masjidlarning tārīkhī (The building of the city of Semipalatinsk, the origin of the name Semipalatinsk and a history of the mosques that are in it)"p. 66.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction in English. Ahmad-Walī al-Qazānī's manuscript, Kitāb-i Tawārīkh-i Sīmīpūlaṭ̄ Qalʻa, "basically [in] Volga-Ural Turki, although it contains some Kazakh and Sart dialectal words and forms"--p. 11.