8vo. vii, 326 pp., contemporary cloth, previous owner’s inscription on front fly leaf, light foxing to endpapers, otherwise copy in very good condition, Luzac & Company Ltd, London, 1947.

Synopsis

No translation into English of Al Fakhri is known, except the short excerpts in Browne’s Literary History of Persia. This is a complete translation into English from the Arabic edition printed in Cairo in 1921. The author Safi ad-din Muhammed, known as Ibn at-Tiqtaqa, was a Sharif, eighteenth in descent from the fourth Caliph, and son of a tax collector in Iraq, killed by ‘Ata Malik in 1281.