ملخص الجهاز:
The Book Mirror Box • The Book Mirror Box (12)/ Mohammad Afshin Vafaei The Book Mirror Box (12) Mohammad Afshin Vafaei(1) (Book Introduction and Review) • Lata'if al-Adhkar lil-Hudhar wa al-Sufar fi al-Manasik wa al-Adab (the oldest Persian text on knowing the Hajj route from Bukhara to Mecca), Abu Ja'far Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Mazah, edited and annotated by Rasul Jafarian, Tehran, Elm, 2013, 254 pp, 24,500 Tomans.
Due to its antiquity, the book is full of linguistic and lexical benefits, which since the editor did not address them in the introduction, I will mention some of the most important ones here: (Refer to the page image) Ab-e jameh meaning "water vessel; ewer": "When he finished performing ablution, he refilled the ab-e jameh" (p.
(10) There are a few small errors in the text of the book, and some changes in the manuscript recording appear that, in my opinion, are not correct: □ The limit of washing the face is from the softness of the ear to the softness of the ear and from the top of the forehead, which is the beginning of the hair, to the far side of the cheek (p.
483: Instead of "editing" in the title "Editing and Printing of Texts," it is better to use tashih (correction).
Chronology in Ancient Iran was reprinted with corrections and additions in the author's own handwriting a few years after Taqizadeh's death, in 1357, through the efforts of Afshar, and in 1388, it was also published via offset in the Toos Publications series (the third volume of the aforementioned collection).