1837.] 



Per si mi poets. 



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The Baharistan—a. descriptive poem dedicated to Sultan Hussain 

 Baicarra. » 



The Laila wa mejnun. 

 The Fusuf wa Zuleikha— two celebrated love tales. 



The Tohfet al-ahrar. 



Besides these are many dissertations in prose on theological subjects. 

 He dedicated a work on ethics, called the Irshad, to Mahomed Khan, 

 second Sultan of the Ottomans. His seven principal works form a col- 

 lection styled the Heft Aurung, the seven thrones.* 



In the epistles of J ami is introduced so much pure Arabic that, to the 

 mere Persian reader, they are in many places utterly unintelligible, 

 Mr. Lumsden in his elaborate grammar of the Persian Language, has 

 adduced a remarkable example of the unlimited intermixture of the 

 two tongues (Vol. 1. P. 398), and has strongly recommended, what I 

 believe most orientalists concur in, that the study of both lan- 

 guages should go on together. The introduction of Arabic to this ex- 

 tent is of modern origin, subsequent of course to the conquest of Persia 

 by the Arabs. Sadi, whose study of Arabic in the college at Bagdad, 

 was not confined, has done a great deal to render that tongue fashion- 

 able among Persian poets. 



The Bagh-i-Iram and Silsilah uzzaheb of Jami are both written in 

 the measure Khafif Muktiia. The Leila wa Majnun in the Hazaj 

 Ajzab Makbuz Makhzuf Musaddas; and his Fusuf Zuleikha in the 

 measure Hazaj Makhzuf Musaddas. 



Ibn khatib, 



Surmaned Kaikhusro, or Taj uddin Ahmed, flourished in the time of 

 Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi, in the 4th century of the Hejira. 



Jelal uddin Atiki, 



Was living at the time the Tarikh i Guzideh was written, by the author 

 of which work, Bin Aber Bekr-Bin Ahmed-Bin Nasir At Mastouji- 



* M. Antoine Galand, in his " Paroles Remarquables," speaking of Jami, remarks " II 

 a compose un grand uombre d'ouvrages, taut en vers qu'en prose, et Ton compte cinq 

 Divans parrai ses Poesies, c'est a dire, cinq recueils complets de Gazels par ordre Alpha-, 

 betique." 



