Ḥamdollāh Mostowfī

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Ḥamdollāh Mostowfī

Persian writer

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The cosmography of Ḥamdollāh Mostowfī (died after 1340), Nuzhat al-qulūb (“Pleasure of the Hearts”), like many earlier works of this genre, underlined the mysterious aspects of the marvels of creation and was the most famous of several instructive collections of mixed folkloristic and scientific material. Early miniaturists, too,…
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The cosmography of Ḥamdollāh Mostowfī (died after 1340), Nuzhat al-qulūb (“Pleasure of the Hearts”), like many earlier works of this genre, underlined the mysterious aspects of the marvels of creation and was the most famous of several instructive collections of mixed folkloristic and scientific material. Early miniaturists, too,…
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