Abbas Eqbal Ashtiani

Abbas Eqbal Ashtiani (; 1896/97 – 10 February 1956) was an Iranian literary scholar, historian, translator, and man of letters.

Eqbal Ashtiani was born in Ashtian. He was educated at Dar ul-Funun (House of Sciences) in Tehran and University of Paris. In 1944, Eqbal founded the monthly periodical Yādgār. Eqbal Ashtiani died in Rome, Italy and was buried at the Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine in Rey, Iran.

Works

Studies

• QābÅ«s-e VoÅ¡mgÄ«r-e ZīārÄ«, Berlin, 1342/1923
• Å arḥ-e ḥāl-e Ê¿Abd-Allāh b. MoqaffaÊ¿, Berlin, 1306 Å ./1927
• Ḵānadān-e NowbaḵtÄ«, Tehran, 1311 Å ./1932
• Tārīḵ-e mofaṣṣal-e Īrān az estÄ«lā-ye Mōḡol tā eÊ¿lān-e MaÅ¡rÅ«á¹­Ä«yat I: Az ḥamla-ye ČengÄ«z tā taÅ¡kÄ«l-e dawlat-e tÄ«mÅ«rÄ«, Tehran, 1312 Å ./1933, repr. Tehran, 1341 Å ./1962
• Tārīḵ-e ektešāfāt-e jōḡrāfīāʾī wa tārīḵ-e Ê¿elm-e jōḡrāfīā, Tehran, 1314 Å ./1935
• Moṭālaʿāt-Ä« dar bāra-ye Baḥrayn wa jazāyer wa sawāḥel-e ḴalÄ«j-e Fārs, Tehran, 1328 Å ./1949
• Wezārat dar Ê¿ahd-e salāṭīn-e bozorg-e saljÅ«qÄ«, ed. M.-T. DaneÅ¡pažūh and Y. Ḏokāʾ, Tehran, 1338 Å ./1959
• MÄ«rzā TaqÄ« Ḵān AmÄ«r-e KabÄ«r, ed. Ī. Afšār, Tehran, 1340 Å ./1961
• Tārīḵ-e jawāher dar Īrān, in FIZ 9, 1340 Å ./1961, pp.  5–45.

Texts edited

• Ebn MoÊ¿tazz, Ṭabaqāt al-Å¡oÊ¿arāʾ al- moḥaddeṯīn (Arabic), facs. ed. with notes and variants, GMS 13, London, 1929
• RaÅ¡Ä«d Vaá¹­vāṭ, Ḥadāʾeq al-seḥr fÄ« daqāʾeq al-Å¡eÊ¿r, Tehran, 1309 Å ./1930
• Abu’l-MaʿālÄ« Moḥammad al-ḤosaynÄ«, Bayān al-adyān, Tehran, 1312 Å ./1933
• Ebn Å ahrāšūb, Maʿālem al-Ê¿olamāʾ, Tehran, 1313 Å ./1934
• Mortażā b. Dāʿī RāzÄ«, Tabá¹£erat al-Ê¿awāmm fÄ« maÊ¿refa maqālāt al-anām, Tehran, 1313 Å ./1934
• Hendūšāh b. Sanjar NaḵjavānÄ«, Tajāreb al-salaf, Tehran, 1313 Å ./1934
• AbÅ« Manṣūr á¹®aʿālebÄ«, Tatemma al-yatÄ«ma, Tehran, /1934 (Arabic)
• Šāh-nāma (Borūḵīm ed.), vols. 2–6, Tehran, 1314 Å ./1935
• AmÄ«r MoÊ¿ezzÄ«, DÄ«vān, Tehran, 1319 Å ./1940
• Lōḡat-e fors, Tehran, 1320 Å ./1941
• (selection of) Neẓām-al-Molk, Sīāsat-nāma, Tehran, 1320 Å ./1941
• Ebn Esfandīār, Tārīḵ-e Ṭabarestān, Tehran, 1320 Å ./1941
• Obayd ZākānÄ«, KolÄ«yāt, Tehran, 1321 Å ./1942
• MÄ«rzā Moḥammad Kalantar, RÅ«z-nāma-ye MÄ«rzā Moḥammad Kalāntar-e Fārs, Tehran, 1325 Å ./1946
• Å araf-al-DÄ«n RāmÄ«, AnÄ«s al-Ê¿oššāq, Tehran, 1325 Å ./1946
• JahāngÄ«r MÄ«rzā, Tārīḵ-e now, Tehran, 1327 Å ./1948
• MoÊ¿Ä«n-al-DÄ«n Å Ä«rāzÄ«, Å add al-ezār fÄ« ḥaá¹­á¹­ al-awzār Ê¿an zowwār al-mazār (Arabic), Tehran, 1328 Å ./1949 (with M. QazvÄ«nÄ«)
• Nāṣer-al-DÄ«n KermānÄ«, Semá¹­ al-Ê¿olā le’l-ḥażra al-Ê¿olyā, Tehran, 1328 Å ./1949
• MÄ«rzā Moḥammad-ḴalÄ«l MarÊ¿aÅ¡Ä« á¹¢afawÄ«, MajmaÊ¿ al-tawārÄ«kò, Tehran, 1328 Å ./1949
• Ḥosayn b. Abi’l-Reżā ĀvÄ«, Tarjama-ye Maḥāsen Eá¹£faḥān-e Māfarrūḵī, Tehran, 1328 Å ./1949
• Montajab-al-DÄ«n JovaynÄ«, Ê¿Atabat al-kataba, Tehran, 1329 Å ./1950 (with M. QazvÄ«nÄ«)
• ḤamÄ«d-al-DÄ«n Aḥmad b. Ḥāmed KermānÄ«, al-Możāf elā badāyeÊ¿ al-azmān fÄ« waqāyeÊ¿ Kermān, Tehran, 1331 Å ./1952
• Moḥammad ḠazālÄ«, Fażāʾel al-anām men rasāʾel Ḥojjat-al-Eslām, Tehran, 1333 Å ./1954
• Å arḥ-e qaṣīda-ye Ê¿aynÄ«ya-e Ebn SÄ«nā, in MDAT 1/4, 1333 Å /1954
• ḤakÄ«m Awḥad-al-DÄ«n ṬabÄ«b RāzÄ«, Ḏayl-e Sayr al-Ê¿ebād-e Sanāʾī, Tehran, 1334 Å ./1955
• AbÅ« Manṣūr á¹®aʿālebÄ«, Tatemma al-yatÄ«ma, Tehran, 1313 Å ./1934 (Arabic)

Translations

• “Une notice sur le Ghilan et le Mazandaran par M. le Colonel Trézel” (publ. with P. Jaubert, Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, Paris 1821) as Yāddāšthā-ye ženerāl Terezel ferestāda-ye Nāpelʾon be samt-e Hend, Tehran, 1308 Å ./1929
• Alfred de Gardane, Mission du Général Gardane en Perse sous le Premiér Empire: Documents historiques publiés par son fils as MaʾmÅ«rÄ«yat-e Ženerāl Gārdān dar Īrān, Tehran, 1310 Å ./1931
• R. S. Poole, The Coins of the Shahs of Persia, London, 1887 as Ṭabaqāt-e salāṭīn-e Eslām, Tehran, 1312 Å ./1933
• Moḥammat b. ZakarÄ«yāʾ RāzÄ«, al-SÄ«rat al-falsafÄ«ya as SÄ«rat-e falsafÄ«-e RāzÄ«, Tehran, 1315 Å ./1936
• Jean Baptiste Feuvrier, Trois ans à la cour de Perse, as Se sāl dar darbār-e Īrān, Tehran, 1326 Å ./1947

References

• Iraj Afshar, EQBĀL ĀŠTĪĀNĪ, Ê¿ABBĀS – Encyclopaedia Iranica