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* Minavi and His Unpublished Writings Mahdi Qarib Several years ago, in my analysis of the scientific and moral personality of the late Professor Mojtaba Minavi, I wrote that the figures of history, and specifically the promoters of culture, literature, and art, as long as they are alive and have not joined history, are always immersed in a halo of discussions, judgments, and contradictory and sometimes conflicting interpretations, such that a precise and fair assessment of them seems very difficult. A comprehensive investigation into the identity of our contemporary greats in the field of literary and historical research, including the examination of the scientific personality and works of the late Professor Mojtaba Minavi, naturally cannot be exempt from this general rule. Nevertheless, in that same year, 1977, when I was writing these lines in celebration of the memory of the recently deceased professor, I could never have predicted that another facet of Minavi's brilliant countenance would still remain hidden amidst his massive unpublished notes, and that his published works reveal only a part of the scientific and literary existence of this great man. The compilation and publication of these remaining notes of a multi-talented scholar like Minavi, which are the result of more than half a century of his study and research in various fields of the humanities, especially the history and culture of Iran, is not only highly fruitful for the future research of scholars, but also arouses wonder in the reader as to what kind of passion and love enables a man to conduct all this study and research over fifty years and leave behind such a volume of published and unpublished works.