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The date of Jāmī's Silsilat al-dhahab: Supplementary Note
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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Since the publication of my article (JRAS., 1945, pp. 165 ff.) Dr. A. A. Hekmat has kindly sent me a copy of his book Jāmī, published at Teheran in 1941 (A.H. 1320). In view of Ṣāfīs evidence, he there (pp. 185 f.) dates the first daftar of the Silsilat al-dhahab between A.H. 873 (accession of Sulṭān Huṣayn) and A.H. 877 (Jāmi's pilgrimage). He also calls attention to a relevant passage in the poem itself, strangely overlooked by Ethé and by all other scholars. The important line, which will be found on p. 214 of the lithograph of the Nafaḥāt al-unsand Silsilat al-dhahab published at Cawnpore in 1874, runs as follows:—
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