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Vasilyeva E. The First Persian, French and Russian Editions of the “Sharaf-nāma” // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 5, No 1, March 1999. P. 27-31.


The necessity of immediately publishing Sharaf-khān Bidlīsī’s Sharaf-nāma was recognized as soon as the manuscript was noticed by European scholars. The first to obtain the Sharaf-nāma manuscript in Europe was John Malcolm, author of The History of Persia. He cites Sharaf-khān's work many times, providing abstracts of its text. The manuscript of the composition was presented to Gore Ousley, President of the Committee for Translations in Great Britain and Ireland, who undertook the responsibility of publishing the Sharaf-nāma without delay. This mission, however, was to be carried out in Russia…

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Kurdish literature
Manuscripta Orientalia, selected papers
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Sharaf-khān Bidlīsī
“Sharaf-nāma”

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