Hekayat-e-Yar-e-Samarkandi or The Tale of the Beloved Samarkandi is a selection of Mirza Agha Asgari's (commonly known as Mani) social poems and love poems published in Cyrillic for the Tajik people by Sturnus Publications. The preface is written by Dr. Noorali Noorzad (University of Khujand) and Dr. Umriddin Yusufov (National university of Tajikistan - Dushanbe). The poems were transcribed to Cyrillic by Dr. Umriddin Yusufov.

Mani (Mirza Agha Asgari) was born in Iran in 1951. His first collection of poems,"Tomorrow is the first day of the world," was published in 1975. At present, over...