''Jawāmi ul-Hikāyāt wa Lawāmi' ul-Riwāyāt'' ("Collections of Stories and Illustrations of Histories", commonly known by the shorter title, ''Jawāmi ul-Hikāyāt'', 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. It was written by
Zahiriddin Nasr Muhammad Aufi, who lived during the reign of
Shamsuddin Iltutmish (Altamash) (r. 1211–1236) the third Muslim Turkic sultan of the
Sultanate of Delhi
The Delhi Sultanate was an Islamic empire based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent for 320 years (1206–1526). , and the book is dedicated to his minister, Nizam al-Mulk Muhammad, son of Abu Sa'id 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
The Abbasid Caliphate ( or ; ar, الْخِلَافَةُ الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, ') was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abdul-Mutta ...
Caliph
Al-Mustansir.
The entire text of this 2,500 page book is yet to be edited and printed. Currently, only abridged volumes have been published.
The oldest extant manuscript of this work exists in the
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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, dated 1232.
Content
The ''Jawami ul-Hikayat'' contains 4 volumes consisting of chapters of unequal length. Zahiriddin Nasr Muhammad Aufi used his personal observations, information from many Arab and Persian works (listed as sources in ''Jawami''), as well as information gathered from individual traders concerning the conditions and life in different countries throughout every chapter. This makes the ''Jawami ul-Hikayat'' unique among Persian works.
[I.H. Siddiqui, ''Indo-Persian Historiography Up To The Thirteenth Century'', (Primus Books, 2010), 57.]
Work online
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At Packard Institute
Catalog information
(Recherche: 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
See also
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Persian literature
Persian literature ( fa, ادبیات فارسی, Adabiyâte fârsi, ) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources h ...
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Shahid Balkhi
References
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Persian literature
Middle Eastern chronicles
13th-century history books
Historiography of India
Delhi Sultanate
History books about India
Indian chronicles