Butkhāna-ye Sūmanāt (The Temple of Sumnath): A Recovered Mathnavī by Ḥakīm Muḥammad-Sa‛īd Qummī (Tanhā) Dedicated to ʿAlī-Akbar Yāghī-Tabār
Document Type : pajoohesh
Author
Expert and Instructor in Persian Language and Literature
10.22081/jap.2025.77757
Abstract
Persian literary history records the names of many poetic works whose manuscripts have remained unknown. However, with closer examination of anthologies (jungs) and miscellanies (safīnas), some of these long-lost compositions—often the poet’s only surviving work—can be rediscovered. One such case is the mathnavī The Temple of Somnath (Butkhāna-ye Sūmanāt) by Ḥakīm Saʿīd Qummī, known as Tanhā, which is mentioned in sources from his own time (11th century AH / 17th century CE) but was long considered lost. The present article, based on the author's research in manuscript sources, identifies this mathnavī in a 17th-century safīna. This work, alongside Khurshīd u Mahpāri, represents one of only two known mathnavīs by the poet and offers unique literary interest.
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