Safarnama-yi Gawhar-i maqsud

Travel notebooks have existed almost ever since writing was invented. Two travel narratives with high dramatic and literary value from classical antiquity are Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid. In Arabic literature, Ibn Battuta's (14th cent.) famous Travels come to mind, and for medieval Persian literature, the travel notebook (Safar-nama) of Nasir Khusraw (11th cent.). While the safar-nama has ...