Jawāmi ul-Hikāyāt wa Lawāmi' ul-Riwāyāt (also transcribed Djami al-Hikayat and Jami al-Hikayat) (جوامع الحکایات و لوامع الروایات) is a famous collection of Persian anecdotes written in the early 13th century.
Written by
Zahiriddin Nasr Muhammad AufiSadiduddin Muhammad Aufi was a Persian historian, scientist, and author.Born in Bukhara, Aufi grew up during the apex of the Islamic Golden Age, and spent many years traveling, exploring, and lecturing to the common folk and the royalty alike in Delhi, Khorasan, Khwarizm, Samarkand, Merv,...
and dedicated to his Vizir
al Junaidi, the book was an encyclopaedia of anecdotage containing mines of interesting information, namely on historical information often not found elsewhere, from mythical times until the end of the rule of the Abbasid Caliph
Al-MustansirAl-Mustansir was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1226 to 1242. He was the son of az-Zahir and the grandson of an-Nasir. His lasting contribution was the founding of the Al-Mustansiriyya Madrasa on the banks of the Tigris in 1233....
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The entire text of this 2,500 page book remains to be edited and printed as of yet.
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Jawāmi ul-Hikāyāt wa Lawāmi' ul-Riwāyāt (also transcribed Djami al-Hikayat and Jami al-Hikayat) (جوامع الحکایات و لوامع الروایات) is a famous collection of Persian anecdotes written in the early 13th century.
Written by
Zahiriddin Nasr Muhammad AufiSadiduddin Muhammad Aufi was a Persian historian, scientist, and author.Born in Bukhara, Aufi grew up during the apex of the Islamic Golden Age, and spent many years traveling, exploring, and lecturing to the common folk and the royalty alike in Delhi, Khorasan, Khwarizm, Samarkand, Merv,...
and dedicated to his Vizir
al Junaidi, the book was an encyclopaedia of anecdotage containing mines of interesting information, namely on historical information often not found elsewhere, from mythical times until the end of the rule of the Abbasid Caliph
Al-MustansirAl-Mustansir was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1226 to 1242. He was the son of az-Zahir and the grandson of an-Nasir. His lasting contribution was the founding of the Al-Mustansiriyya Madrasa on the banks of the Tigris in 1233....
.
The entire text of this 2,500 page book remains to be edited and printed as of yet. Currently, only abridged volumes have been published.
The oldest extant manuscript of this work exists in the
Bibliothèque nationale de FranceThe Bibliothèque nationale de France is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France. The current president of the library is Bruno Racine.-History:...
, dated 1232.
Catalog information
- Type de document Monographies
- Auteur(s) Nizam al-Din, Muhammad (Auteur)
- Autre(s) Awfi, Sadid al-Din al-
- Titre Introduction to the Jawami'u'l-hikayat wa lawami 'u'rriwayat of Sadidu'd-Din Muhammad al-'Awfi
- Autre(s) titre(s) Gawami al-hikayat wa lawami al-riwayat
- Langue Anglais
- Publication London, Luzac & Co. : 1929, Leyden, E. J. BrillDescription 1 vol. (xxiii, 316 p.) -32 cm
- Collection E. J. W.Gibb memorial . New series
- Contenu Contient : Observations on the life and works of the author...; position of the Jawam. in Persian prose ; conspectus of the sources of the Jawam. ; chronological arrangement and description of all the known mss. of the Jawam. ; comparative index of the hundred chapters of the Jawam. ; complete table of contents of the four parts of the Jawam. ; reclassification of the contents ...; alphabetical list of all the works mentioned in the Jawam.
- Exemplaire 1
- Cote et fonds PM 439.25 in-4
- Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle. Service commun de la documentation*Bibliothèque de l'Institut détudes iraniennes. Paris
- Exemplaire 2
- Cote et fonds 801.4 NIZ
- Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle. Service commun de la documentation*Bibliothèque de l'Orient et du monde arabe. Paris
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