نو طرز مرصع
By محمد حسین عطا خاں تحسین
Cover: Dervishes dancing before a group of Muslim divines (c. 1760), opaque watercolour on paper by Unknown Mughal-tradition artist · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (anonymous work of c. 1760)
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Muhammad Husain Ata Khan Tahsin's Nau Tarz-e-Murassa (about 1775) is the first telling of the Four Dervishes tale in Urdu prose, a full generation before Bagh o Bahar. Four princes in dervish dress each tell how they lost everything, in the ornate, ornament-laden prose of the period.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.