there is not much information about the life and the works of abū al-ma‘ālī nasrollāh munshī, and his only known work is a translation of kalila and dimna.  but he had composed poems too. there are three of his quatrains in lobab al-albab. there are also two lines of his arabic verses in his translation of kalila and dimna which had composed in praise of king bahram. it can be taken as another ...

This paper deals with some practices and conceptions relating to love marriage in a now-extinct pre-Islamic culture of the Hindukush, as described an extremely precious, yet very little-known, Persian ethnographical source (ca. 1840). Written by munshī from Peshawar under instructions French general Claude-Auguste Court, who was then service Maharaja Ranjit Singh, this is probably single most i...

Abstract In this article, we carry out an introductory study of a little-known text titled Siyar al-mulūk , written in the late seventh/thirteenth century by author named ʿUmar b. Dāwūd al-Fārisī, and dedicated to Ayyubid amīr Hama. There is only one known extant copy work, which belongs collection Topkapı Palace Library dates 727/1327. presents what he has written, confusingly, as “arabicizati...

Abstract This article explores the use of dharmaśāstra in Mughal India through case a little-known seventeenth-century Persian translation text entitled Aḥkām-i awāmir wa nawāhī-yi mazhab-i hunūd (Legal rulings on commanding [right] and forbidding [wrong] legal school Hindus). The work, apparently completed 1658 by Kāyastha named Lāl Bihārī Bhojpurī, is Yājñavalkya Smṛti together with Mitākṣarā...