Some points about Marzbân-nâme: its original author and language

Marzbân-nâme was originally written by Marzbân Ibn Rustam who was one of the kinglets of Tabarestân and from Âl-e Bâvand. Two translations are now available of this book: Raudhat al-uqūl by Mohammad Ibn Qâzi Malaţyawi and Marzbân-nâme by Sad al-Din Varâvini. The writers of these two translations or refinements did not properly know the author of the original text, so the ambiguities in their texts misled the recent researchers about the author of the original text. The present article is an effort to resolve these ambiguities and illuminate the character of the original author of the book.