Bakhtiyār-nāmah, the title of a well-known Persian story, the earliest prose version of which, comprising ten chapters and an epilogue, would appear to have been composed in the late 6th/12th and early 7th/13th century by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Daqāyiqī Marwazī.

The Bakhtiyār-nāmah recounts the story of Prince Bakhtiyār, the son of Āzād-Bakht the king of Sīstān, who is abandoned after being bor…