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“ Conversations with Emperor Jahāngīr ” By Muṭribī al-Asamm of Samarqand. Translated from the Persian. By Richard C. Foltz. pp. 98. Costa Meza, Mazda, 1998.

This is an attractively-produced small book offering an English version of the Persian-language poet Mufribfs autobiographical account of his meetings with the Moghul emperor JahangIr. MutribI put together a collection of biographical anecdotes (tadhkira) of Persian-language poets from Central Asia and Afghanistan who had come to India to seek their fortunes at the Moghul court: he gave this collection the title "Nuskha-yi ZTba-yi-JahangTr" which in the ABJAD system is said to give the date of compilation equivalent to A.D. 1625. Following the example of his chosen poets, he came to the Moghul court, then at Lahore, and presented his work to the emperor in A.D. 1627. He was at court for two months as a guest, waiting until the courtier Faslh Khan had finished reading the work out aloud to his master. After he was given his reward, he successfully resisted the emperor's invitation to accompany him to Kashmir and, pleading old age and his family left behind in Central Asia, returned to Samarqand. There, in A.D. 1628 or later, he added an epilogue (khatima) in 24 short chapters describing the incidents that happened during his stay in Lahore: these cover in a chatty anecdotal manner the conversations and entertainments which the elderly fortune-hunter witnessed at court, from trophies of duck-shoots to lead-pencils and erasers, camel-fights, musical evenings and literary discussions and an open air reception at night where all wore white silk to reflect the light of the full moon. Anyone who enjoyed the "Padshahnama" exhibition at the Queen's Gallery in 1997 will be interested in the contents of MutribI's memoir. At the emperor's request, MutribI included a brief account of 80 poets compiled by the emperor himself in his youth, including it in the 23rd chapter of the epilogue (not included in the present work). He no doubt sent a copy of this expanded work to India, where it arrived probably after the emperor Jahanglr's death. The unique surviving manuscript of this composite work the anecdotes of the poets (tadhkira) plus the autobiographical epilogue (khatima) — was copied in Delhi in A.D. 1665, that is, 40 years after the original compilation and 38 years after the poet's visit to Lahore. This manuscript survives in the India Office Library collection, where it was examined by Hermann Ethe before his death in 1917. It was included in the catalogue of additional manuscripts published in 1937, where the manuscript's condition, size, script, colophon and contents are carefully recorded, including the title given to the whole manuscript in an old Persian hand on the fly-leaf "Tarikh-i-