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This late seventeenth-century manuscript contains a full copy of the text of the Ardashir-nāmah (The Book of Ardashir/Ahasuerus), an epic poem by the fourteenth-century Jewish Persian writer Shāhin-i…
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ca. 1680
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In the age of every ruler, old and new, time and again some affliction befell us. But this one was…
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Bābāī ibn Lutf
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Kashan, Safavid Empire
(Kashan, Iran)
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First Half of the 17th Century
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Then Khalīāl answered God:
“I have sworn an oath upon the Truth;
I will not hold back my hand from Isaac
Until my oath is carried out. O Lord,
My condition to desist is a witnessed covenant,
That…
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Amīnā
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Beginning of the 18th Century
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It was explained earlier in part 2 that faith is [like a] possession that is, it is a possession that belongs to man’s soul, the way knowledge belongs to the soul…
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Judah ben Eleazar
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Kashan, Safavid Empire
(Kashan, Iran)
Date:
1686