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Makhzan al-Asrar

12th century · 12th century

Makhzan al-Asrar, The Treasury of Mysteries, is the first of the five long poems of the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, written in the 1160s or 1170s. A didactic work of about 2,250 couplets, it mixes moral and religious discourses with short illustrative stories. Nizami dedicated it to Fakhr al-Din Bahramshah, the Mengujekid ruler of Erzincan in eastern Anatolia.

Makhzan al-Asrar
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Makhzan al-Asrar. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/makhzan-al-asrar
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