Mojmal al-Tawarikh
12th century chronicle of Persian Kings
Mojmal al-Tawarikh wa al-Qasas (Arabic: مُجمل التواریخ و القصص, lit. 'The Collection of Histories and Tales') was a book written in Ghaznavid Persia (in c. 1126[citation needed]).
The book is a chronicle mostly of Persian Kings, and is often cited as a source of reference for historical events of the 12th century and before. It refers to the classical Persian Shahnameh as the "tree" and all other poems as "branches".[1]
Some authors have claimed the name of the author to be Ibn Shadi Asad abadi (ابن شادی اسدآبادی).[2] The book was first edited in 1939 by Mohammad-Taqi Bahar in Tehran.
Another book with the same title was written by Fasihuddin Ahmad in 1441.[citation needed]
References
Sources
- Askari, Nasrin (2016). The medieval reception of the Shāhnāma as a mirror for princes. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-30790-2.
- Weber, Siegfried; Riedel, Dagmar (2012). "MOJMAL AL-TAWĀRIḴ WA'L-QEṢAṢ". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
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Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of Iran, Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.