Lubāb al-albāb
By: taʼlīf-i Muḥammad ʻAwfī ; az rū-yi chāp-i Urūpā kih Purufisūr-i Idvārd Brāwn va ʻallāmah-i Qazvīnī taṣḥīḥ kardahʹand ; bā taṣḥīḥāt-i jadīd va ḥavāshī va taʻlīqāt-i kāmil bi-kūshish-i Saʻīd Nafīsī
Contributors: Nafīsī, Saʻīd, 1895-1966, editor
Edition: Chāp-i 1
Publisher: Payāmbar
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Tehran]
Language: per
Number of pages: 868
ISBN-13: 9786009098200
Subjects: Persian Poets; Early works to 1800; Persian poetry
Notes: "Lobāb al-albāb, the oldest tad̲kerat al-šoʻarāʼ (anthology with biographies of the poets) in the Persian language ... apparently completed in 618/1221 ... The work is important mainly for two reasons: (1) ʻAwfī gives biographies and quotes verses of contemporary poets who had received him in various towns and are not mentioned in any other works; (2) he gives information, not found anywhere else, about certain poets of the Ghaznavid, Samanid, Saffarid, and Taherid periods. He is uncritical in his appraisals of the poets, being often loquacious and rhetorical. His selections are not well balanced and often show poor taste."--Encyclopaedia Iranica.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Reproduction. Originally published: [Tehran] : Kitābkhānah-i Ḥājj ʻAlī ʻIlmī, 13335 [sic, i.e. 1957], Matn-i kāmil-i Lubāb al-albāb.