The Khnov bilingual epitaph refers to a late 14th-century epitaph inscribed on a trapezoid-shaped headstone stele, which was discovered in the mountainous village of Khnov in Dagestan, Russia.[1] The inscription consists of a six-line Arabic prose text dated Rajab 784 AH (September–October 1382 AD) followed by a four-line Persian metrical text containing the three dobayts from the Matlūb kull tālib treatise of Iranian poet Rashid al-Din Vatvat (died 1182/3).[1] According to the Iranologist Grigol Beradze, the Khnov bilingual epitaph represents the "earliest dated Persian poetical inscription to be found so far in the North Caucasus".[1]
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- ^ a b c Beradze, Grigol (8–11 September 2015). Written in stone: on a bilingual epitaph of the late fourteenth century from Khnov (Dagestan). The Seventh Biennial Convention of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS). Istanbul. p. 47.