Story collection · The work and its editions
Palm and Gunpowder · Nakhl va Barut
English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.
Original language: Persian
A collection rooted in the working lives of southern Iran. In his 2024 Aasoo conversation, Rabihavi identifies The Porter as one of its stories and recalls poor Arab villagers cycling at night with goods to sell. The surviving printed colophon places the collection with Damoon in summer 1359.
Source 17 · Source 20 · Source 56
A chapter in the biography · A chapter in the biographyEnglish title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.
The original colophon labels this a first edition. Its complete five-entry contents sequence and corresponding story headings have been visually checked. No ISBN or English literary edition is established by that scan.
Latin transliteration of the Arabic title; the translator’s name is also transliterated.
Ebjed identifies this Arabic story collection, its translator and printing year. The same-title collection is recorded beside the Persian book; the publisher does not identify a particular Persian source edition or establish identical contents.
Damoon · summer 1359
The original Damoon scan gives a five-entry contents page. Each entry has been checked against its corresponding story heading, with the printed page numbers retained below. The names are Latin transliterations of the Persian headings, rather than newly assigned English literary titles.
This index belongs to the scanned first edition. Palto is the final printed heading; it is not silently substituted for The Porter named in the later Aasoo conversation. Comparing a later recollection with the original sequence leaves that title relationship open.
Ebjed · Arabic · 2022
Ebjed’s own record identifies Al-Nakhil wa-al-Barud as an Arabic story collection by Rabihavi, translated by Hanaa Mah Tab. The publisher gives 2022 as the printing year and ISBN 9789922676272; its announcement appeared on 13 May.
The Arabic title and translator name are given here in Latin transliteration. The publisher does not name a particular Persian source edition or list the complete contents, so the record establishes an Arabic publication without assuming that it reproduces the five-story Damoon edition in full.
Author interview · Published 10 December 2024. Author testimony about the kiln reporting, Mordad and Palm Tree and Gunpowder; no publication date is inferred from a date of writing.
Printed imprint · The retained Persian scan identifies Damoon and a first edition in summer 1359 on PDF page 3. The contents page and five corresponding story headings were visually checked: printed pages 5, 43, 50, 59 and 71. This establishes that edition’s sequence, rather than a complete reading or a translation of the stories. The link is the original external mirror.
Publisher · Publisher record and cover identify an Arabic story collection by Rabihavi, translated by Hanaa Mah Tab, printing year 2022, ISBN 9789922676272. The announcement is dated 13 May 2022; that posting date is not treated as the printing date. The Arabic title and translator name are rendered here in Latin transliteration. No particular Persian source edition or complete contents equivalence is identified.