‘Āşıḳ Aḥmed (d. after 833/1430)
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- ‘Āşıḳ Aḥmed (d. after 833/1430)
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- ﻋﺎﺷﻖ ﺍﺣﻤﺪ
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- Cāmi‘ü’l-aḫbār
- circa 833 Show more
- A mes̱nevī consisting of 12245 couplets which narrates morally-oriented stories on the lives of Muslim saints. With its sections of praise and sebeb-i teʾlīf, it is in the format of a classical mes̱nevī. It includes 14 ḳaṣīdes which add up to 348 couplets. The mes̱nevī is divided into twenty chapters, each of which includes 6 to 11 stories, adding up to a total of 179 stories. Each chapter is on a different moral subject, such as lawfulness, repentance, ascetism, generosity, etc. In the work, the author states that he translated the work from Mongolian and also added his commentaries.