The Zafarnama of Guru Gobind Singh
$148.71
- Hardcover
342 pages
- Release Date
26 January 2027
Summary
In 1705, the tenth Sikh Guru Gobind Singh addressed a Persian verse letter to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. Known as the Ẓafarnāma, the “Epistle of Victory,” it is one of the most important documents in Sikh history, and one of the least reliably transmitted. Modern printed editions, most of them descended from Ganda Singh’s 1949 Māʾkhiẓ-i Tavārīkh-i Sikhān, suffer from broken meters, missing rhyme patterns, and readings that appear in no manuscript witness. Nearly a third o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674308114 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0674308115 |
| Author: | Harpreet Singh, Wheeler M. Thackston |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 342 |
| Release Date: | 26 January 2027 |
| Weight: | 450g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 160mm x 240mm |
| Series: | Harvard Oriental Series |

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Harpreet Singh
Harpreet Singh is the co-founder of the Sikh Coalition and the founder of the Harvard Sikh Center.
Wheeler M. Thackston is Professor of the Practice of Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the author of widely used grammars of Persian and Classical Arabic and the translator of the Bāburnāma, the Jahāngīrnāma, and the Akbarnāma.
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