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Nuskha-’i sharif va mukhtasar-i latif - نسخۀ شريف ومختصر لطيف
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a religious didactic work in Chagatai. The above title is taken from the colophon, and the correct title, if indeed there is one, has not been identified. Unusually, the anonymous author proceeds directly from the doxology to the exposition of his didactic message. The text ...
This volume contains a didactic mesnevi on Islamic ethics and doctrine, by the poet Ahmed ibn-i Osman ed-Diyarbekiri, known as Ahmed Mürşidi (died 1174 AH/1760 CE). The work was widely read in the author’s time and in subsequent periods. The text has sometimes been incorrectly attributed to Ahme...
This volume contains an account of the teachings of Şeyh Safi, or Safiyyüddin-i Erdebili (died 735 AH/1334 CE), founder of the Safavi Sufi order and hence regarded as that of the Safavid dynasty of Iran. The author, whose identity is unknown, states in his introduction that his intention was to ...
This volume contains a Persian-Ottoman Turkish encyclopaedic dictionary by Riyazi Mehmed Efendi (died 1054 AH/1644 CE). The work is not to be confused with Katib Çelebi’s short treatise of the same name. Riyazi Mehmed was a pupil of Ebüssuud Efendi (died 982/1574), a religious scholar in his ow...
