''Lubab ul-Albab'' (لباب الالباب) is a famous anthology written by

Zahiriddin Nasr Muhammad Aufi Sadīd ud-Dīn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad 'Aufī Bukhārī (1171-1242) ( fa, سدید الدین محمد عوفی), also known under the laqab Nour ud-Dīn, was a Persian historian, philologist, and author. Biography Born in Bukhara, Aufi claimed de ...

in the early 13th century in eastern

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. It is considered as the oldest extant biographical work in Persian literature and the most important collection of biographies of Persian poets. This book includes 27 biographies of the poets who lived in the same era. It was written during the reign of the Samanids. As an example of the diversity of the material in the ''Lubab'', it is considered the earliest known work in

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literature in which a

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is described in sea navigation.

Modern era

Only two hand-written copies are known to exist, one was owned by Nathaniel Blend in 1846 and the other resides in the Berlin Imperial Library. Later, the orientalist Edward Brown published Blend's copy in 1906.''Hidden Treasures(Pata khazana)'', 23.

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Modern era

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