Draft:Pandiyāt-i Jawānmardī

Pandiyāt-i Jawānmardī
The cover page for the Gujarati translation of the Pandiyāt-i Jawānmardī by Vali Mohammad Nanji Hoodam, the assistant of Wladimir Ivanow.
Created	roughly 1480 (1480)
Purpose	Collection of Farmans

Pandiyāt-i Jawānmardī (Persian for "Counsels of Chivalry" or "Advices of Manliness"), is a collection of ginans likely attributed to Imam Mustansir Billah II, who lived in Anjudan, Persia and died in 1480, although they may alternatively originate from the later Imam Gharib Mirza, who carried the honorific Mustansir Billah III and died in 1498. Written by an anonymous author, this collection records the religious and socio-economic advice delivered by Imam Mustansir Billah at religious gatherings.

These guidances may have served to re-establish the Imams as the definitive source of religious guidance for the Nizari Isma'ili community after the period of hiding (dawr al-satr). In South Asia, this book influenced the Shi'a identity of the Satpanth community, who followed the guidance of the pirs such as Pir Sadrudin and a mixture of their local beliefs, rather than those of the Imams. Following this tradition, this collection is also known as the 29th, and last, Pir.

This text is also the first known collection of Farmans, speeches attributed to the Nizari Isma'ili Imams. Collections for Imams starting from Aga Khan I are more widely available in Gujarati and English. At present, they are used as a they are "a source to which the believers refer to conduct their daily spiritual, cultural and socio-economic lives".

Translations

This text was first translated from from Persian into English by Russian orientalist Wladimir Ivanow, who published the results (available here) in 1953 with the help of his assistant V.N. Hooda (Vali Mohammed Nanji Hooda). Later, this text was translated into Gujarati by V.N. Hooda, which can be accessed here.