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A'in Narna-This is a full descriptive history of Persia which 'Abdullah bin al Muqaffa' translated into Ara• bic-.
Besides history, religious books were also translated .
Awasta was translated into Arabic and copies of it could be found for a long time.
Marqayun wrote a book on the funda• mental articles of faith and called it Ingil; which was liter• ally translated into Arabic.
Among the books which he wrote, the following were translated into Arabic ;-Kitab un• Nur_ wa'z-Zulmat, Kitab Ruhaniyat al-Haqq, Kitab ul-Mutaharrik wa'l .
They are as follows :-Faraq1natiya, Safar ul-J ababira, Kanz ul-Ahya, Fash al-Yaqin Ingil, Shapurgan, Safr ul-Asrar, Besides these books Man] wrote many short pamphlets which were all translated into Arabic.
It is not known that Muzdak wrote any book but it is certain that his beliefs, principles and doctrines were all translated into Arabic.
'Abdullah bin al-Muqaffa' translated it into Arabic.
2 The Muhammadans liked literature very much though in a lesser degree than historical and religious writings, so that whatever they could get of Persian literature was translated into Arabic.
In this connection the Kitab Hazar Afsanah (Book of Thousand -Nights) which was very excellent and interesting was translated into Ar:abic (l) An account of the writings of Mani, Marqa yun and Ibn Dlsan .
Another book of the rank of Yatima was Ahd N amah of Ardshir and its translation exists in Arabic.
Ibn-ul-Nadirn writes that the books which are universally thought to be excellent are the following :-.