Description

Numūnah-ʼi Adabīyāt-i Tājīk (Collection of Tajik literature) is a compendium of poetic works by medieval, early modern, and modern Tajik poets. It was compiled and edited by Sadriddin Aini (1878‒1954), who is considered a national poet in Tajikistan and was by far the most literary of the Tajik nationalists. The work was published in Moscow by the Central Press of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1926, just two years after the creation of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Each work in the compendium is well known and available in ...