Noteworthy Persian (and a couple Turkic) taẕkirahs

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1	Title	Comp. yr.	Author	Auth. d. yr.	Locus scribendi	Dedicatee	No. entries	Scope	Organization	Length of notices	Editor	Ed. yr.	Publisher	G-M p.	Other notes

2	Chahār maqālah	1155	Niẓāmī ʿArūżī	1161	Khurāsān	A Ghūrid prince	8	A number of poets listed, beyond the 8 who get entire anecdotes	List of poets by dynasty	Anecdotes are a few p. each, incl. quotation of some couplets	Muḥammad Muʿīn	1955	Tehran: Zavvār	2:587	2nd maqālah on poetry; Browne trans.
3	Taẕkirat al-awliyāʾ	1210	Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār	1221	Khurāsān						Nicholson, Qazvīnī	1982	Tehran: Dunyā-yi Kitāb	N/A	2 vols.; Sufi hagiography; Losensky partial trans.
4	Lubāb al-albāb	1221	Sadīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ʿAwfī	1233	Multān	A Ghūrid vazīr	300	Anyone noteworthy who had composed Persian poetry; Arabic not included	Chs. by social class, then dynasty/time period; unclear ordering of poets	Varies widely; less important poets get about 3–5 line bio, 10 couplets quoted	Saʿīd Nafīsī	1957	Tehran: Ibn Sīnā	2:77	Nafīsī ed. built upon Browne & Qazvīnī
5	Nafaḥāt al-uns	1478	ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī	1492	Harāt		625				Maḥmūd ʿĀbidī	1991	Tehran: Iṭṭilāʿāt	2:800	Sufi hagiography
6	Bahāristān	1487	ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī	1492	Harāt	Sulṭān Ḥusayn Bāyqarā		A smaller selection from all eras (Rūdakī through author's time)	Only one ch. for poets; generally in chronological order	Varies considerably, though nothing is given much space	Afṣaḥzād, ʿUmar'uf, Ẓuhūr al-Dīn	2000	Tehran: Mīrāṡ-i Maktūb	2:485	Book written for author's son; ch. 7 on poets; published along with other prose works of Jāmī
7	Taẕkirat al-shuʿarāʾ	1487	Dawlatshāh Samarqandī	1507	Harāt	Navāʾī	151	10 classical Arabic poets, 141 Persian poets from all eras (up to author's time)	Arabic poets in muqaddimah; 135 Persian poets in 7 ṭabaqāt (largely chronological); 6 contemporaries in khātimah	Varies, but often quite long, incl. digressions on historical topics	Fāṭimah ʿAlāqah	2007	Tehran: Pizhūhishgāh-i ʿUlūm-i Insānī va Muṭālaʿāt-i Farhangī	1:264	Numbers of poets based on Browne ed.; different in ʿAlāqah (154 total)
8	Majālis al-nafāʾis	1491	ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī	1501	Harāt						Hüseyin Ayan et al.	2001	Ankara: Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu	N/A	Turkic, but translated early and repeatedly to Persian; widely influential
9	Laṭāʾif-nāmah	1522	Fakhrī Haravī	1566	Harāt	An official in Safavid Harāt				Mostly very brief	ʿAlī Aṣghar Ḥikmat	1945	Tehran: Chāp-khānah-i Bānk-i Millī	2:118	First Persian translation of Navāʾī; published along with Qazvīnī
10	Majālis al-nafāʾis-i Fārsī	1523	Ḥakīm Shāh Muḥammad Qazvīnī	1559	Istanbul	Selim I					ʿAlī Aṣghar Ḥikmat	1945	Tehran: Chāp-khānah-i Bānk-i Millī	2:120	Second Persian translation of Navāʾī; published along with Fakhrī Haravī
11	Laṭāʾif al-ṭavāʾif	1532	Fakhr al-Dīn ʿAlī Ṣafī Bayhaqī	1532							Aḥmad Gulchīn-i Maʿānī	1957	Tehran: Muḥammad Ḥusayn Iqbāl	2:738
12	Tuḥfah-i Sāmī	1550	Sām Mīrzā Ṣafavī	1567	Ardabīl		700	Contemporary and recent poets only		Mostly very brief, except for major figures	Rukn al-Dīn Humāyūn Farrukh	1960	Tehran: ʿIlmī	1:155	Includes notices on amateur/bad poets
13	Rawżat al-salāṭīn	1553	Fakhrī Haravī	1566	Sindh	An Arghūnid ruler of Sindh	80	Members of royal houses			Sayyid Ḥusām al-Dīn Rāshidī	1968	Ḥaydarābād: Sindhī Adabī Būrd	1:644	Published along with his JA
14	Javāhir al-ʿajāʾib	1556	Fakhrī Haravī	1566	Sindh, Agra (?)	Māham Anga	23	Women poets			Sayyid Ḥusām al-Dīn Rāshidī	1968	Ḥaydarābād: Sindhī Adabī Būrd	1:417	Published along with his RS
15	Haft iqlīm	1594	Amīn b. Aḥmad Rāzī	1594	India (where?)						Javād Fāżil	1960	Tehran: ʿAlī Akbar ʿIlmī	2:410	3 vols.
16	Gulistān-i hunar	1597	Qāżī Aḥmad Qumī	1606							Aḥmad Suhaylī Khwānsārī	1973	Tehran: Bunyād-i Farhang-i Īrān	2:708	On visual artists
17	Majālis al-muʾminīn	1601	Qāżī Nūr Allāh Shūshtarī	1610	India (where?)						al-Ḥājj Mullā Amīn Ṭihrānī	1881	Tehran: Dār al-Ṭibāʿah-i ʿAlī Qulī Khān Qājār	2:759	On Shi'is; famous author (martyred); newer edition available (?)
18	Sullam al-samāvāt	1605	Abū al-Qāsim Kāzarūnī	1605	Shīrāz, Kāshān						ʿAbd Allāh Nūrānī	2008	Tehran: Mīrāṡ-i Maktūb	2:653	Ch. 5 on poets
19	Khulāṣat al-ashʿār	1607	Taqī Kāshī	1613	Kāshān					Fairly detailed bios; huge amount of poetry transmitted (350k verses total)	Barūmand, Kahnamūʾī	2005-	Tehran: Mīrāṡ-i Maktūb	1:524	Possibly not extant in its entirety; only a few sections edited so far
20	Majmaʿ al-khavāṣṣ	1607	Ṣādiqī Kitābdār	1609							ʿAbd al-Rasūl Khayyāmpūr	1948	Tabrīz: Akhtar-i Shamāl	N/A	Turkish, but addresses many Persian poets
21	Khayr al-bayān	1610	Malik Shāh Ḥusayn Sīstānī	1627		ʿAbbās I					N/A	N/A	N/A	1:605	See British Museum MS Or. 3397
22	ʿArafāt al-ʿāshiqīn	1615	Taqī Awḥadī	1630	Agra	None!	3,500	Persian poets from all eras	Lengthy intro, then 28 chs. alph.; within each ch., three sections chron.	Fairly detailed bios, reasonable amount of poetry transmitted	Muḥsin Nājī Naṣrābādī	2009	Tehran: Asāṭīr	2:3	7 vols.
23	Maykhānah	1619	Fakhr al-Zamānī Qazvīnī	1621	Patna	An amīr of Jahāngīr					Aḥmad Gulchīn-i Maʿānī	1961	Tehran: Ḥājj Muḥammad Ḥusayn Iqbal va Shurakāʾ	1:377
24	Taẕkirah-i Naṣr'ābādī	1680	Muḥammad Ṭāhir Naṣr'ābādī		Iṣfahān	Shah Sulaymān	1,000				Aḥmad Mudaqqiq Yazdī	1999	Yazd: Dānishgāh-i Yazd	1:397
25	Kalimāt al-shuʿarāʾ	1682	Muḥammad Afżal Sarkhush	1714	Delhi						ʿAlī Riżā Qazvah	2011	Tehran: Markaz-i Pizhūhish, Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Islāmī
26	Riyāż al-shuʿarāʾ	1748	Vālih Dāghistānī	1757	India (Shāhjahānābād?)		2,500				Muḥsin Nājī Naṣrābādī	2005	Tehran: Asāṭīr	1:650	5 vols.
27	Majmaʿ al-nafāʾis	1751	Khān Ārizū	1756	Delhi						Zīb al-Nisāʾ ʿAlī Khān	2004–06	Islamabad: Markaz-i Taḥqīqāt-i Fārsī-i Īrān va Pākistān	2:158	3 vols.
28	Ātashkadah	1760	Āẕar Bēgdilī	1781	Qum	Karīm Khān Zand			Complex ch. org. by social class, geography, time period; generally alphabetical within each section	Varies, but usually short bios	Ḥasan Sādāt Nāṣirī	1958–62	Tehran: Amīr Kabīr	1:2	3 vols.
29	Ṣuḥuf-i Ibrāhīm	1791	ʿAlī Ibrāhīm Khān Khalīl	1793	Varanasi (Banāras)		3,278	All eras	Alphabetical		Mīr Hāshim Muḥaddiṡ	2006	Tehran: Anjuman-i Āṡār va Mafākhir-i Farhangī	1:759	Only 'bakhsh-i muʿāṣir' in this ed.
30	Majmaʿ al-fuṣaḥāʾ	1867	Riżā Qulī Khān Hidāyat	1871	Tehran, Tabrīz		867	Persian poets from all eras			Maẓāhir Muṣaffā	1957–61	Tehran: Amīr Kabīr	2:144	2 vols. in 6
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