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This volume contains the Lisan al-tayr (‘The speech of the birds’), a mystical masnavi by Ali Shir Nava’i (born 844 AH/1441 CE, died 906 AH/1501 CE). The work is based on Farid al-Din ‘Attar’s (died 586 AH/1190 CE [?]) renowned Persian mystical poem Mantiq al-tayr, which is an allegory of the Su...
This volume contains a rare poem mainly concerning episodes in the life of the Prophet Muhammad. All that is known of the author is that his name was Mehmed, and that the poem was completed in 872 AH/1467 CE. No name or date appears in this manuscript, which was formerly MS 151 in the collecti...
This volume contains a didactic religious treatise in Chagatai, concerning aspects of Islamic doctrine and ethics. The author is not named. The text features interlinear Persian translations of selected words throughout. Among the other contents of this volume include a passage in Persian acros...
