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...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Persianate Studies Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 42 - 67
Autor principal:	Walravens, Meia
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Brill Academic Publishers 2023
Materias:	Patronage Epistolary fiction Puzzles Letter writing Khurāsān (Iran)
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