Abu Bakr Ibn Khosrow Al-Ustad was an author living in
Ganja
Ganja (, ; ) is one of the oldest and most commonly used synonyms for marijuana. Its usage in English dates to before 1689.
Etymology
''Ganja'' is borrowed from Hindi/Urdu ( hi, गांजा, links=no, ur, , links=no, IPA: aːɲd ...
in the middle of the 12th century. It is known that he was a private tutor for
Muhammed Jahan Pehlevan, one of the
Atabegs of Azerbaijan.
His only surviving work is ''Munis Name'' (A Book of Bead stories), which is reminiscent by its style to ''
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
''One Thousand and One Nights'' ( ar, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, italic=yes, ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the ''Arabian ...
.'' The manuscript is contained in the
British Library
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, which acquired it in 1920. Certain
Meredith-Owens translated the manuscript into English and published it in 1974.
12th-century writers
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