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Muḥammad Qādirī,
Ṭūṭī-nāma
[Preliminary Entry] An abridged version of Ṭūṭī-nāma of Żiyā’ al-Dīn Naḫšabī (d. around 751/1350-51) composed by a certain Muḥammad Qādirī in the seventeenth century, containing thirty-five fables and tales on guiles and tricks retold by a parrot to a merchant’s wife named Ḫujasta within a frame story.
The book takes its origin from Sanskrit Śukasaptatī (Seventy Tales of the Parrot) translated into Persian for the first time by a secretary of ‘Alā al-Dīn Ḫaljī’s (r. 1286-1306) court named ‘Imād al-Din Ṯaġarī under the title of Jawāhir al-asmār, followed by Naḫšabī’s Ṭūṭī-nāma. Both versions contain stories retold during fifty-two nights aiming to avoid the merchant’s wife from committing adultery. Qādirī’s text is an abridgment of the previous two versions. It was translated into English in 1801 by Francis Gladwin and into German in 1822 by Carl L. Ikens. The book’s first French translation by Marie d’Heures dates 1826, followed by Emile Müller in 1934.
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English translation: The Tooti Nameh, or Tales of a Parrot: in the Persian Language, with an English Translation, F. Gladwin, ed., Calcutta, 1800 (Republished: London, J. Debrett Institute,1801; Tehran, 1967).
French translation: Touti-Nāme ou les contes du perroquet de Ziā-eddin Nakhchabi, d’après la rédaction de Muhammad Qāderi, Müller, Emile, ed., Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1934.
German translation: Touti Nameh. Eine Sammlung Persischer Mährchen von Nechschebi, Carl Jacob Ludwig Iken, ed., Stuttgart, 1822
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