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I, however, reproduce below the Iranian subjects touched upon in these two Arabic books on adab in the Cairo editions. Iranian material from the Mahasin-wal masawi, Part I, p. 1. A dictum of Buzarjmahir. Interesting is the interpretation of the Persian word Mihman at another place in the same Arabic books, viz: MA, 79, 6 to 11=MM, 202, 16 to 203, 2.
Professor Inostranzev gives a list of passages of Iranian interest which are to be found in the Mahasin-wal masawi and in the Mahasin wal azdad giving references to pages in the European editions. Unfortunately I have not been able to procure the latter and cannot verify the allusions.
Co-related with these books on "good qualities" stand, in our opinion, the books on "good morals and their opposite," or "goodness and wickedness," Kutub al Mahasin wal Azdad, or Kutub al Mahasin wal Masawi. Although in the Fihrist we do not come across books with this title, we have a book so named from the beginning of the tenth century whose author was Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al Baihaki.
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