Khulasat al-ash?ar wa-zubdat al-afkar. Volume 6.1

In Persian literature, tadhkira ('note', 'memorandum') works are for the most part collections of biographies of poets, combined with selections from their writings. The earliest such work is Dawlatshah Samarqandi's Tadhkirat al-shu?ara? (completed in 892/1487), which set a standard for posterity. The tadhkira genre was especially popular in the 10th/16th century and following. The work by Mir Taq...