Mojmal al-Tawarikh wa al-Qasas (مُجمل التواریخ و القصص "The Collection of Histories and Tales") was a book written in
Ghaznavid Persia (in c. 1126[citation needed]).
The book is a chronicle mostly of Persian Kings, and is often cited as a source of reference for historical events of the 12th century and before. It refers to the classical Persian Shahnameh as the "tree" and all other poems as "branches".[1]
Some authors have claimed the name of the author to be Ibn Shadi Asad abadi (ابن شادی اسدآبادی).[2]
The book was first edited in 1939 by
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar in
Tehran.
Another book with the same title was written by Fasihuddin Ahmad in 1441.[citation needed]
References
^The Development of Persian Culture under the Early Ghaznavids, C.E.Bosworth, Iran, Vol. 6, (1968), 41.
Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of
Iran,
Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of
Afghanistan.