Bostan ol-Arefin va Tohfat ol-Moridin is one of the mystical prose texts of the Khorasan area in the fifth century A.H. Among the many Persian literary texts, it is considered as a precious ancient source for many of the anecdotes, miracles and sayings of the Sufis. Furthermore, the linguistic features of this book such as numerous special vocabularies, stylistic aspects and prose similar to the spoken language of the fifth century are among the other values of this book. Bostan ol-Arefin va Tohfat ol-Moridin, Montakhab-e Ronaq ol-Majalis and the attachments whose second edition has recently been released was published by Dr. Ahmad Ali Rajai Bukharaee in 1354 Š (1975). In this article the author is going to investigate this printed text by using the known and accessible manuscripts of Bostan ol-Arefin and other ancient sources to point to numerous errors in the text calling for a new recension.
Bozorg Bigdeli, S., Nikoubakht, N., Abedi, M., & Ataei, T. (2012). Necessity of Recension, Correction and Analysis of Bostan ol-Arefin va Tohfat ol-Moridin. New Literary Studies, 45(4), 91-110. doi: 10.22067/jls.v45i4.22947
MLA
Saied Bozorg Bigdeli; Naser Nikoubakht; Mahmoud Abedi; Tahmineh Ataei. "Necessity of Recension, Correction and Analysis of Bostan ol-Arefin va Tohfat ol-Moridin". New Literary Studies, 45, 4, 2012, 91-110. doi: 10.22067/jls.v45i4.22947
HARVARD
Bozorg Bigdeli, S., Nikoubakht, N., Abedi, M., Ataei, T. (2012). 'Necessity of Recension, Correction and Analysis of Bostan ol-Arefin va Tohfat ol-Moridin', New Literary Studies, 45(4), pp. 91-110. doi: 10.22067/jls.v45i4.22947
VANCOUVER
Bozorg Bigdeli, S., Nikoubakht, N., Abedi, M., Ataei, T. Necessity of Recension, Correction and Analysis of Bostan ol-Arefin va Tohfat ol-Moridin. New Literary Studies, 2012; 45(4): 91-110. doi: 10.22067/jls.v45i4.22947
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