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Majmu'at Rasa'il. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE.
Published by Matba'at al-Ma'arif, Cairo
ISBN 10: 0000036137ISBN 13: 9780000036131
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Arabic text, 93 pp., [3 index and errata] / 86 pp., [4 index and errata], printed on buff paper, modern hard back binding, gilt lettering on spine, new endpapers, light soiling to the last page of both Volumes 1 and 2, otherwise copy in very good condition, 1315 AH [1897/8]. Al-Watwat, (d. 578/1182), a bilingual poet, philologist, and prose writer in Persian and Arabic, as well as a high-ranking official of the Khwarazmian court in the 12th century. There is considerable data on his biography, with the Dictionary of Learned Men by Yaqut (d. 1229) as the earliest source. As a chief secretary of the Kvarazmsahan, Watwat engaged in diplomatic correspondence with the caliphs and their officials (in Arabic), and with the court of Sanjar and some local rulers (in Persian). The author himself compiled a book of highly embellished prose resalas in both languages, under the title of ?Ara?es al-Khawater wa nafa?es al-nawader; nine Arabic and nine Persian letters are included into his Abkar al-afkar fi'l-rasa?el wa'l-a??ar; a later collection titled Rasa?el ?Arabi is also extant. His Persian epistles have been edited by K. Toyserkani (Rashid-al-Din Watwat, Namaha, Tehran, 1960); a representative selection of his Arabic output (this work) was published by Mohammad Fahmi (Majmu?at rasa?el Ra?id-al-Din al-Wa?wa?, 2 parts, Cairo, 1315/1897-8). Ref: Encyclopaedia Iranica.
