Afsanche-ye dari (Dari tales).(Review)

RAHMANI, ROWSHAN, compiler. Afsanche-ye dari (Dan tales). Tehran: Soroush Press, 1998. Second edition. 616 pages. Glossary, annotations. Paper Rial 17,000. ISBN 964-435-294-7. (In Persian)

This book is a rich collection of ninety Dari tales from Afghanistan (not from Persia as it is erroneously written in the English translation of the title on the back cover. Dan is the term used nowadays for Persian as spoken in Afghanistan). It is the second edition of the original edition of 1995.

The book includes a lengthy preface (9-43), which in addition to a general discussion on the ...