Picture Gallery (1888) by Edward Rehatsek (1819 1891) is an English translation of the Persian moral miscellany Niga rista n (1334 5) by Mu i ni? Juvaini , which was modelled on the Gulista n (1258) of Sa di . Originally completed for the Kama Shastra Society, Rehatsek's translation has remained unpublished until now. This edition, edited by Gregory Maxwell Bruce, has been compiled from Rehatsek's original manuscript and contains extensive information about the translator, translation, text, and original author. It also contains a scholarly glossary of names and information aimed at facilitating comparison between Rehatsek's translation and Mu i ni?'s Persian original.
Gregory Maxwell Bruce is a Lecturer in Urdu at the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor and translator of Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue by Shibli Nu'mani (Syracuse UP, 2019) and a regular contributor to Brill's online Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, and Encyclopaedia Iranica. He has previously taught Urdu courses at University of Texas, Austin in 2008 2016 and at the South Asia Summer Language Institute, University of Wisconsin Madison in 2009.
Gregory Maxwell Bruce is Assistant Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Niga?rista?n: A Facsimile Edition (Mazda Publishers, 2023), Urdu Vocabulary (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue (Syracuse University Press, 2020). His shorter writings about the history of Persian and Persianate intellectual history and literature in South Asia can be found, inter alia, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Iranian Studies, and SUFI.
