| Abstrakt: |
The connection of Naīru'd-dīn ūsī with the Ismailites is a well-known fact, familiar to every student of Persian literature. Even a beginner cannot pass without paying attention to his important treatise on ethics, the Akhlāq-i-Nāirī. This latter work was composed for and dedicated to the enlightened Ismailite governor (ra'īs) of the province of Quhistān, Nāiru'd-dīn Mutasham, or 'Abdu'r-Raīm b. Abī Manūr, of Qā'in, who was a well-known patron of men of letters. The original version of the work (as ūsī himself states in the preface to the book as it stands at present) was subsequently altered by him when he dissociated himself from the Ismailites; it included apparently a doxology with praises to Ismailite Imams. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
