Zafarnama-yi Khusrawi

Zafar-nama is the title of a number of Persian works, in poetry or prose, mostly in glorification of some ruler or dynasty. As examples one could cite the Zafarnama-yi Timuri (9th/15th cent.), the Zafarnama-yi Shah Jahan (11th/17th cent.), or the Zafarnama-yi Kabul (13th/19th cent.). The anonymous Zafarnama-yi Khusrawi published here clearly stands in that tradition. Composed in 1279/1862-63, it ...