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Collection Area Oriental Manuscripts Subject Poetry

1. Arundel Or 10, ff 4v-9v

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 10, ff 4v-9v
Title:
Refutation of an anonymous poem excusing disbelief in God Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ابن تيمية، أحمد بن عبد الحليم
Scope & Content:
The text begins with eight lines of a poem in which the anonymous poet tries to excuse his disbelief in God (f. 4v, lines 2-9), and continues with a refutation of the poet's points by the theologian Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn Taymīyah (تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحليم بن تيمية; AD 1263-...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 4v-9v

2. IO Islamic 1244

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1244
Title:
بکٹ کہانی Bikaṭ kahānī
Scope & Content:
A Barahmasah poem, by Muhammad Afdal Gopal (d.1625). Of this poetic tradition, Francesca Orsini writes ‘in thiskind of poem an abandoned woman (virahini or birahini) pines forher absent lover or husband and describes her pitiful state, month after month,against the backdrop of seasonal changes a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Hindi, and Urdu
Date Range:
end of 18th century
Extent:
20 folios

3. IO Islamic 2768

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 2768
Title:
Divan-i Chanda
Scope & Content:
The divan of the first female Urdu poet, Mahliqa or Chanda Bai, a courtesan in Hyderabad in the Deccan during the reign of Nizam Ali Khan (1761-1803 CE). The Divan is prefixed by a Persian preface dated 1213 AH (1798 CE), and contains the following inscription in English on the fly-leaf: "The Diw...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Persian, and Urdu
Date Range:
1798
Extent:
Codex (ff 34)