Editorial samples of the ancient redactors: Abu Nasr-e Otbi's Ketab al-Yamini and its commentary by Sadr al-Afazel of Khwarazm

The Tarikh al-Yamini by Abu Nasr-e Otbi is a historical work that, due to its ornate and florid Arabic prose has been subject to very many distortions and misrepresentations. Sadr al-Afazel Khwarazmi. one of the earliest commentators of the Ketab al-Yamini, has revealed some of the corruptions and distortions penetrating the book and put forward his corrective views in his Al-Yomni.
The present review mainly addresses a sample of such distortions and inaccuracies that Sadr al-Afazel has quoted from one or several manuscript copies of the Ketab al-Yamini available to him. In cases where no example supporting the preference of Sadr al-Afazel.s view over those of previous commentators and redactors was found, mention was limited to differences between those views only.