Oriental literature
Subtitle: or, The Dabistan
By: translated from the original Persian by David Shea and Anthony Troyer ; introd. by A. V. Williams Jackson.
Contributors: Fānī, Muḥammad Muḥsin, d. 1671 or 2.; Shea, David, 1777-1836, tr.; Troyer, Anthony, d. 1865, tr.
Publisher: Khalil
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Lahore
Language: eng; per
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Religions -- Early works to 1800; Iran -- Religion -- Early works to 1800
Description: Historical study of the various religious creeds and philosophical systems of the East, with special reference to the religious situation in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent in the 17th century.
Notes: A reprint of the ed. published by the Tudor Pub. Co., New York, 1937, which was somewhat abridged from the original ed. published in London, 1843, under title: The Dabistán; or, School of manners.
The common attribution to Muḥsin Fānī is probably mistaken; cf. Enc. of Islam, new ed., under Dabistān al-madh̲āhib.