DAWĀNUS, the name of a man seen in the other world by Ardā Wirāz, as described in both the Middle…

ḴERAD-NĀMA, (Book of Wisdom), the shortened title of a compilation of short didactic and philosophical texts preserved in one of…

JAWĀMEʿ AL-ḤEKĀYĀT WA LAWĀMEʾ AL-REWĀYĀT, the earliest and the most comprehensive collection of stories in the Persian language, compiled by…

JĀMEʿ AL-ḤEKĀYĀT (lit. Compiler of stories), one of the oldest and most common titles of mostly anonymous Persian story collections,…

IRĀNŠAHRI, ABU’L-ʿABBĀS MOḤAMMAD b. Moḥammad (fl. 2nd half 3rd/9th cent.), mathematician, natural scientist, historian of religion, astronomer, philosopher, and author….