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Ali Safi's Fascinating Tales are among the most popular works of Persian literature. For more than four hundred years, this book has been read in countries where Persian and the close Tajik and Farsi Kabuli languages are spoken: Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, parts of Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and India. The final version was completed by the writer in 1533. The title of the book, Latayf al-Tawaif (Humorous Tales of People of Different Classes), reflects its content to the fullest extent possible: the writer collected all the most interesting and best of Arabic and Persian classical literature. "Fascinating Stories" can rightly be called the first anthology of Persian humour - witty, gentle and instructive .