APHORISM, “short sentences drawn from long experience” to Cervantes, “the wisdom of many, the wit of one” to Lord Russell,…

AḴLĀQ AL-AŠRĀF (“The ethics of the aristocracy”), a satire composed in 740/1340-41, the most important work of ʿObayd Zākānī. This…

ZARRINKUB, ʿABD-AL-ḤOSAYN (b. Borujerd, 19 March 1923; d. Tehran, 15 September 1999; Figure 1), prolific Iranian scholar, literary critic, literary…

BEHRŪZ, ḎABĪḤ (1889-1971), Persian satirist, son of the physician and calligrapher Abu’l-Fażl Sāvajī. Having acquired a knowledge of English at…