Jawami ul-Hikayat

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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 Aufi 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-Mustansir.

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 France, dated 1232.

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Catalogue collectif de France (Recheche: Localisation de document: Titre: "Jawami"):

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