It will hardly occur to the reader who will open for the first time a small volume with the cheerful title "Funny Book" and turn over its pages that the author of these witty and caustic, mocking and funny stories, jokes, maxims has not been alive for six centuries. After all, the lines he wrote are surprisingly alive and even modern! However, Obaid Zakani, who wrote the works published in this collection, really lived in the XIII-XIV centuries in the west of Iran.