Azod Yazdi versification

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This versification of Samarqandi's Sindbadnama by the Shirazi belletrist and bureaucrat Azod Yazdi was commissioned by, and dedicated to Shah Rukh, the Timurid prince/governor of Shiraz who would later ascend to the throne. It is written is slightly less ornate, Arabicised language than Samarqandi's version, and was comprised of Masnavis in a regular mutaqārib metre. It was rather less popular in most of the Persianate world than Samarqandi's version, but it arguably outshone it in the Indian subcontinent, encapsulated by the magnificent illuminated Deccan manuscript Or. 3214, now held by the British Library. This popularity in the Indian subcontinent meant that it, rather than the Samarqandi recension, was first translated and edited by European orientalists.

General Information

Language within Version

Persian

Narrative / Scholarly Group

Sindbadnama

Parent Versions

Sindbadnama, Zahiri al Samarqandi

Author

Seyyed Jalaloddin Azod-e Yazdi

Title

Sindbād-nāma-ye manẓūm-e Azod-e Yazdi

Branch of the tradition

Book of Sindbad

Language & Composition

Language of version

Persian

Place of composition

Shiraz, Iran

Date of Composition

14th century

Literature & Editions

Modern research literature

Basset, René. Contes arabes, Histoire des dix vizirs. Paris 1883. Clouston, W. H. The Book of Sindibād. Or, The story of the king, his son, the damsel, and the seven vazirs, from the Persian and Arabic, with introduction, notes and appendix. Glasgow 1884, Falconer, Forbes. Analytical Account of the Sindibad Namah, or Book of Sindibad, A Persian Manuscript Poem in the Library of the East-India Company. London 1841., Gīlak, Siyāmak. “Yāddāshthāī dar-bāri-ye Sindbād-nāma.” Āyandih 10 (1984), 365- 69., Minovi, Mujtabā. “Dar bāri-ye Sindbād-nāma.” In his Pānzdah-guftār, 1981

Recorded Branch of This Secondary Version

• Persian Sindbadnama
  • Azod Yazdi versification
  • Nakhshabi Tutinama
  • Zahiri al Samarqandi, Sindbadnama

Languages in Use

Regional or specific language of version

Dari (Insha)

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