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{{Manuscript
|Has Reference Number=SamarqandiSindbadnama3
|Has Location=Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
|Has Page Range=ff. 1-117
|Has Standardised Title Of Narrative=Sindbadnama
|Has Siglum Of The Version Of The Seven Sages=Persian Sindbadnama
|Has Narrative Or Scholarly Group Within Version=Zahiri al Samarqandi, Sindbadnama
|Has Language=Persian
|Has Regional Language=Dari (Insha)
|Has Scribe=unknown - colophon says it was copied from a manuscript by Lalah Sahib Wali Ni'matullah
|Has Author=Lalah Sahib Wali Ni'matullah
|Has Place Of Production=Central India
|Has Date Of Production=1785
|Has Literary Form=Prose
|Has Illustrations=No
|Has Collation=The majority of the manuscript is made up of the Jawami ul-Hikayat, an early 13th century collection of mirabilia (aja'ib) by Muhammad Awfi, who likely knew Zahiri al Samarqandi personally, and who, in his other notable work, the Lubab ul-Albab, provides much of the testimonia we have concerning Zahiri al Samarqandi and the broader Persian tradition. This text was considerably more popular than the Sindbadnameh, with 111 manuscripts surviving, and enjoyed great esteem in both Islamicate courts and among European orientalists.
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