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Updated: May 26, 2025
KATIBS or writers were the persons employed in public offices: the directors, clerks and secretaries in government service were all called katib. Khalifs' Nauruz. This another name for Nauruz Khasa "New Year's day proper," in which it was customary to offer presents to the sovereign. The old Persian custom of celebrating Nauruz existed at Baghdad under the Abbaside Khalifs.
Ibn Kallikan says, "It was Mukaffa who composed the book entitled Kalileh Wa-Dimneh. But some state that he is not the author of the work which they say was in Pahlavi, and he translated it into Arabic, and put it in an elegant style. But the discourse at the beginning of the work is by him." Ahmed Ibn Yusuf addressed to Al-Mamun a verse with a present of an embroidered robe on the day of Nauruz.
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