Fatúh'sh-Shám, attributed to al-Waqidi, Arabic edition (1853); an account of the Muslim conquest of Syria; Al-Kashshaaf, a tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis) commentary by al-Zamakhshari;[2] Nafahatu l'Uns of Jámí (an account of saints and Sufis, modernised from an older chronicle), a foundational Persian work for the Western study of Sufism,[3] and the Vis u Rámin, based on a Páhlévi romance of Vis and Rāmin, were well known.[3][4] Instruction in Oriental Languages, especially as regards Candidates for the East India Company's Service, and as a National Question, London and Edinburgh, 1857.