Futtowat-Nameh-Ye Sultani: The Necessity for Re-Correction

Maulana Hussein Vaez Kashefi Sabzevari was one of the skillful Persian writers in the 9th century AH. He was a scholar and author in most of the branches of science and pseudo-science at his time. One of his most important works is Futtowat-nameh-ye Sultani, a highly valuable work, which was corrected over 40 years ago by Mohammad Jafar Mahjoub based on two partial manuscripts. On this basis, due to the lack and shortage of manuscripts, a few deficiencies entered the work. Considering that the present author has managed to discover and prepare three other manuscripts of this work in the recent years, it seems necessary that a new correction of this work be offered. By the new correction of this work, many of the defects of Mahjoub's version will be eliminated, so that readers can have access to a text much more similar to the original one. The authors of this article intend to prove by pointing to a number of reasons that the new correction of this work is an unavoidable issue based on the existing five manuscripts of Fottowat-nameh-ye Sultani.It is obvious that after re-correcting and publishing this work, part of the Sufi folklore culture in the 9th century AH will be available for use and judgment by researchers in this field.