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"Aliyya Ghurra" is a work by Maktabi Shirazi (c. 865 - after 941 AD) written in the meter of Nezami Ganjavi's "Seven Bodies". This work is a translation of Imam Ali's precious sayings into verse form. The poet selected one hundred words from "Al-Laali Prose" and translated each saying into one or more couplets accompanied by a poetic anecdote. The book was first published in 1313 AH by Hossein Kuhi Kermani based on the only known manuscript belonging to Malek al-Shoara Bahar. This initial publication was riddled with errors and inaccuracies. In the next attempt, Mahmoud Abadi published a corrected edition in 1999. However, Abadi did not have access to the original handwritten manuscript and could only work with the flawed Koohe edition. While Abadi's corrections were a step in the right direction, the text still requires further refinement. In this discourse, the researcher had access to Bahar's original manuscript, as well as another complete handwritten copy of the poem. By comparing these sources to Koohe and Abadi’s editions, the researcher identified the remaining mistakes in Abadi's correction and noted the missing words from the earlier published versions in order to present a more comprehensive and accurate version of "Gol-e Sad Barg-e Bagh-e Morteza" (The Flower of a Hundred Leaves from the Garden of Morteza). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The book Ma'dan ol-Javaher (Mine of Gemes) is the only available work written by Doulat Khane Tarzi Dehlavi, a poet and writer in the Indian subcontinent, authored in the years 1024-1025 AH and dedicated to Jahangir Shah Gourkani. This book is being kept in the form of manuscripts with libraries around the world and among them, three manuscripts are available in Iran. The present descriptive study aims to introduce and analyze the text of Ma'dan ol-Javaher. Research findings indicate that the book is composed of seventeen chapters in the same format as Golestan of Saadi, that is a mixture of prose and poetry. The book consists of thirty-six stories, and Tarzi Dehlavi considers himself the compiler of these tales, not the creator of them. Most of the poetic evidence of the book belongs to the author himself, but the verses of other Persian poets such as Saadi, Hafez, Nezami, Jami, and others have also been cited. Most of the poems cited from others belong to Saadi. This shows that Tarzi, in addition to imitating Golestan in his prose, had also an eye on Saadi's Bustan. Employing rare Indian words such as 'sokhpal', 'mooti', 'joogi', etc., agreements of adjectives and adverbs, word formation and the use of verbs in special meanings, the use of redundancy, and the like are among the stylistic features of Ma'dan ol-Javaher. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]