Rawżat aṣ-ṣafāʾ
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Rawżat aṣ-ṣafāʾ fī sīrat al-anbiyāʾ w-al-mulūk w-al-khulafāʾ (روضة الصفا في سیرة الانبياء والملوك والخلفاء, ‘The Gardens of purity in the biography of the prophets and kings and caliphs’) or Rawdatu 's-safa is a Persian-language history of the origins of Islam, early Islamic civilisation, and Persian history by Mīr-Khvānd.[1] The text was originally completed in seven volumes in 1497 AD;[2] the eighth volume is a geographical index.[3] The work is very scholarly, Mīr-Khvānd used nineteen major Arabic histories and twenty-two major Persian ones as well as others which he occasionally quotes.[4] His work was the basis for many subsequent histories including the works of Hajjī Khalfah.[4]