Puzzles and Patronage in the Persian Cosmopolis: Moʿin al-Din Esfezāri's Acrostic Letter to Mahmud Gāvān.
This article studies a literary puzzle, a maktub-e movashshah or acrostic letter, that is among the Persian monshaʾāt (stylized literary letters) of the Herat-based historian and secretary Moʿin al-Din Mohammad Zamji Esfezāri (fl. 1468–94/873–99). Created in praise of the Bahmani vizier Mahmud Gāvān...
| Published in: | Journal of Persianate Studies Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 42 - 67 |
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2023
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