In Persian literature, tadhkira (‘note’,‘memorandum’) works are for the most part collections of biographies of poets, combined with selections from their writings. The earliest such work …
ʿImād al-Dīn Ṭabarī (fl. 2nd half 7th/13th cent.) was a Shīʿī religious scholar. Little is known about his personal life, just that he was born in Ṭabaristān (today’s Māzandarān) and that …
Ibn al-Fāriḍ (d. 632/1235) is arguably the greatest mystical poet in the history of Arabic literature. Born in Cairo and a student of Shāfiʿī law and ḥadīth in his younger years, he turned …
Purpose: Iran and Iraq are of countries with common manuscripts that demonstrates the common heritage of hundred years of the countries' shared history, science, culture and art. This …
Ibn Turka Iṣfahānī (d. 835/1432) stemmed from a well-educated family in Isfahan. In 789/1387, following Tīmūr Lang’s (d. 807/1405) massacre of the population of Isfahan, he and his …
ادبیات فارسی منبعی غنی برای تحقیق در آداب و رسوم و چگونگی زیست فارسیزبانان و حتی فرهنگهای نزدیک به آن در گذشتههای دور است. بر آشنایان ادب فارسی پوشیده نیست که جز ارزش …
… در این دوره در مورد علاوه بر شرایط دورههای گذشته در موردحفاظت از کتابها نیز در وقف نامهها شروط واقفان منظور و یا توسط کتابدار در قبض امانت قید میگردید مانند اینکه مواظب صحافی قرآنها باشند …
Mīr Muḥammad Bāqir Khātūnābādī (d. 1127/1715) was a Shīʿī scholar who entertained close relations with the Safavi ruler Shāh Sulṭān Ḥusayn (d. 1139/1726–27) in Isfahan. In the …
Being the first imam of the Shīʿa, ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib’s (d. 40/661) statements—in any form—have always been important. In the centuries following his death, there appeared several …
The final years of the reign of the Safavids (1501-1722) have been described by many (near-) contemporary authors. A key-event in this period was the rebellion of Malik Maḥmūd …