Identifying the author of The Mer at-e Oshshaq (A codicological and textological study)

The Mer’at-e Oshshaq is a treatise on the Sufi terminology in one introduction and two themes [matlab]. The author’s emphasis is on the exegesis of figurative terms, to which he refers as “specific implications”. The Mer’at-e Oshshaq has been published based on some incomplete manuscripts and attributed to an unknown writer. In the present article, on the basis of some existing clues and an old creditable complete manuscript newly discovered, the identity of the author of the treatise has been ascertained.