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in 1959. The edition published by Edward G. Browne was based mostly on three manuscripts and the Bombay edition, and remains the most commonly distributed version. According to the modern historian
Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Browne's edition "lacks a critical apparatus." He adds that this is included in
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The book is notable for its inaccurate reports of earlier poets, but its reports of more contemporary figures and events are considered highly important, particularly for the cultural and political history of Iran and
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Dawlatshah's death date is uncertain; Haji
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125:("Memorial of poets"), a Persian biographical dictionary of 152 poets, considered highly important for its information about the cultural and political history of
410:, the book is to an extent a demonstration of the awareness of a shared cultural heritage amongst pre-modern authors, before the conceptualization of the
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Dawlatshah is written in a fluid Persian prose, has an autobiographical preface, an introduction that discusses ten Arab poets (such as
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252:(died 1501), the latter whom the work was dedicated to. It ends with a lengthy homage to Sultan Husayn Bayqara.
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