Majma‛ al-nawādir

Fayḍ Allāh ibn Zayn al-‛Ābidīn ibn Ḥusām Banbānī, known as Malik al-Quḍāt Ṣadr-i Jahān, was a high-ranking official at the court of Maḥmūd Shāh Begarha, Sultan of Gujarat (r. 863–917/1459–1511). His date of birth remains unknown, but evidence indicates that he was still alive in 907/1501–1502. In addition to holding political office, Fayḍ Allāh ranks among the historians of tenth/sixteenth-century India by virtue of his authorship of Ṭabaqāt, also known as Tārīkh-i Maḥmūd Shāhī. While residing in Muḥammadābād Champaner in 903/1497–1498, Fayḍ Allāh Ṣadr-i Jahān decided, as he himself states, to compile within two months a Persian work in forty chapters. Drawing on Arabic and Persian historical and biographical sources, he selected engaging and edifying anecdotes. He completed the work by adding a preface, an introduction, a conclusion, and seventeen accounts based on his own observations and personal experiences, and entitled it Majmaʿ al-nawādir. Since the previous editor, Rana Javadi, did not have access to an older and more authoritative manuscript for her 1402 Sh./2023–2024 edition published by Arya Chameh, Salman Saket and Safura Molaei have prepared a new critical edition based on four manuscripts. Published by Nashr-e Adabiyat in Qom in 1404 Sh./2025–2026, the volume comprises an introduction (95 pages), the critically edited text (436 pages), annotations (205 pages), indexes (148 pages), and a bibliography (36 pages). It appeared in a print run of 250 hardback copies. The present article seeks to identify, introduce, critically examine, and evaluate this edition.