The Arab poet and anthologist Abū Tammām (d. 231/845) was born in Jāsim in Syria, between Damascus and Darʿā. After a first period as a weavers’ assistant in Damascus and as a …
… ما امسال از آخر قوس] آذر[ 1301 شروع به جمع آوری مطالب میکنیم تا آخر قوس 1302 و از اول جدی]دی[ 1302 شروع به طبع و صحافی کتاب مزبور خواهیم نمود بطوری که روز اول … *حسن زاده مستوفی …
In medieval Persia, the munshī or court secretary belonged to a highly professional, privileged class, enjoying a comfortable income and attractive living conditions. The better one’s …
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 …
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 …
… در نسخههای خطّی، علاوه بر هنرهای کاغذسازی، ورّاقی، صحافی و کتابسازی؛ زیباترین هنرهای خلقشده توسط فکر، ذهن و دستان هنرمندان یعنی خط، تشعیر، تذهیب، ترصیع، تصویر (نقّاشی و …
In the margins of a copy of the book, Al-Nihāya Fi Mujarad al-Fiqh wa al-Fatāwī written by Sheikh Ṭūsī (460 AH) in the handwriting of Abū al-Ḥasan Ali ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥassan ibn Musā …
Regarded by many as the last great mystical poet of medieval Persia, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492) spent the greater part of his life in Herat. As a student, he excelled in every …
In Persian literary history Firdawsī’s (d. 411/1020) Shāh-nāma, the famous masnavi composed in celebration of the history of the kings and dynasties of Persia, is the archetypal epic …
Sistan is a region straddling the eastern border between Iran and Afghanistan and on the Iranian side part of the province of Sistan-Baluchistan. Irrigated by numerous rivers coming …