Masnavi-ye Man va Salva (Sokhan-e Ali)

• Persian Title: مثنوی منّ و سلوی (سخن عالی)
• Transliterated Title: Mathnavī-yi Mann va Salwā (Sukhan-i ʿĀlī)
• English Title: The Masnavi of Manna and Quail (The Discourse of ʿĀlī)
• Author: Muḥammad Nūr al-Dīn Nuʿmat Khān ʿĀlī Shīrāzī (d. 1121 A.H.)
• Editor: Majīd Moḥsenī Vādegānī
• Language: Persian
• ISBN: 978-600-203-292-8
• Publication Year: 2024
• Pages: 401
• Format: PDF
• Category: Persian Language and Literature
• Miras Maktoob Collection Code: 394

【Summary】

Nuʿmat Khān ʿĀlī Shīrāzī was a Shiʿi Iranian poet, prose writer, and physician who lived in Mughal India during the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries A.H. He served as a court secretary and close associate of the Mughal emperors Aurangzeb and Bahadur Shah. Among his numerous works in prose and verse, Mann va Salwā, also known as Sukhan-i ʿĀlī, stands as one of his most significant poetic compositions.

The work is composed in the masnavi form and demonstrates a clear literary and conceptual influence from Rumi’s didactic narrative poetry. The present critical edition is based on the manuscript preserved in the Central Library of the University of Tehran as the base text, with four additional manuscripts consulted as variant witnesses.

The volume is organized into five sections: an introduction and biographical study of the author, an analytical presentation of Mann va Salwā, a discussion of the editorial methodology, the critically established text with recorded textual variants, and a concluding section of explanatory notes and annotations. This edition provides an important source for the study of Persian mystical poetry in the Mughal period.