Dastur al-Muluk

Dastūr al-Mulūk (Persian: دستور الملوک)[1] by Moḥammad Rafiʿ Anṣāri known as Mirzā Rafiʿā,[2] is one of only three surviving administrative handbooks from early 18th-century Safavid Iran and an important research tool for scholars in Iranology.

The Persian manuscript was edited during the 1960s by the Iranian scholar Mohammad Taqi Danesh Pajouh.

A Persian translation of Marcinkowski's 2002 study by Ali Kordabadi and Mansur Sefatgol appeared in 1385 AH solar (2006 CE) in Tehran at Markaz-e Asnad va Tarikh-e Diplomasi (published by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

Subsequently, the Iranian scholar Iraj Afshar discovered and edited the remainder of the manuscript.

This part, too, was translated into English and discussed by Dr. Marcinkowski in the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, the journal of the German Oriental Society (see below).