Study and comparison of the common topics of Tohfatol Al-Gharib of Tabari and the Ajayeb nameh of Hamedani

The subject of the present study is the study and comparison of common themes in the Tohfatol Al-Gharib of Tabari and the Ajayeb nameh of Hamedani. The technique of writing and researching wonders of the world has been considered by interested writers in different eras. Most researchers have categorized books and writings on the subject of exotica in the category of geographical books, but it should be noted that the scope of the contents of these books exceeds the geographical limits and the examples mentioned in them as an encyclopedia of The various sciences - albeit sometimes with the imagination and exaggeration - can be examined.The two works studied in this study were written about half a century apart, and due to the antiquity of the book of Tohfatol Al-Gharib, some of the contents of this book can be seen in the wonders of Hamedani's letter.The main question of the research: To what extent has Hamedani used the themes of the Tohfatol Al-Gharib in his work and what are the differences between the common themes of the two books?The possible answer to this question is that Hamedani has taken about half of the themes of the book Tohfatol Al-Gharib in the field of writing miracles from chapters twenty-one to twenty-six of this book. The differences between these themes are very small and are mainly related to the location of those phenomena or the name of the amazing phenomena.