The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance

HISTORY OF KING ĀZĀDBAKHT AND THE VIZIER’S DAUGHTER. Thus it is recorded by the authors of remarkable histories, and the narrators of delightful tales, that there was once in the country of Sīstān, a certain King, possessing a crown and a throne, whose name was Āzādbakht; and he had a Vizier entitled Sipahsālār, a pers