Majma’ al-Nawadir (Collection of Narrative Propositions)

Narration and storytelling are very common in ancient and medieval Indian literature, and works such as Mahabharte, Ramayneh, Sindbadnameh, Kalileh va Demnah, and other collections and works of narration have appeared in Sanskri. This tradition has continued in different eras and a number of writers and scholars of the subcontinent, in order to provide moral, legal and … teachings, have made and dealt with many stories or have compiled collections in the form of anecdotes and narrations, among which can be referred to a series of anecdotes of Muhammad Awfi (7 AH), Bahirah Fuzuni Astarabadi (11 AH), Favaed Al-Hekayat va Gharaeb Al Ravayat of Abdul Nabi Fakhr al-Zamani (11 AH) and ... Majma’ al-Nawadir of Faizullah Banbani, statesman, writer and famous historian of the period of Mahmud Shah Bigreh (one of the sultans of Gujarat) is one of such narrative collections, including a collection of rare anecdotes that were published in 903 AH, with regard to brevity, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Mahmud Shah's reign.