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Delhi Persian 326

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Delhi Persian 326
Title:
Polemic works on Shīʿah Islām, 8 items (a-h)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
258 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Names:
Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-Irbilī, ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá, d. 1292 or 3
Dihlavī, ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn, 1551-1642,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120129555,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/45690112
Muḥammad Niẓām al-Dīn
Ḥamzah
Subjects:
Polemics
Religious literature, Persian
Shīʻah--Controversial literature
Sunnites--Relations--Shīʻah
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India Office Library

Delhi Persian 326

Polemic works on Shīʿah Islām, 8 items (a-h)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Collection of polemic works critical of and supporting the Shīʿah faith by various authors. Volume not dated. Scribal nastaʿlīq, shikastah āmīz, taʿlīq, and calligraphic naskh, by multiple hands. Annotations. Stamped foliation. Lacking original binding. Binding damaged (reddish brown blind-tooled leather), labels. Folios mostly bound; cropped, creases, smudging, wormholes, later repairs. Condition fragile. IOL microfilms 486, 487, 488.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

1. ff. 1v-32v
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Delhi Persian 253(a), ff. 1v-32v.

Fragment of a polemic treatise written from the Sunnī perspective treating the Islamic heresies in India, especially the Shīʿah faith (termed Rāfiz̤īyah here), by Muḥammad Niẓām al-Dīn, a descendent of the famous muḥaddis̲ Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Dihlavī. The author mentions that he also wrote other works at length on the subject, such as the Khavāfiz̤ al-Ravāfiz̤.

Defective at end.

Not dated at end.

Varying portions of some pages are written with the text laid out in alternating oblique orientations.

Dense annotations in part; cropped.

Author: Muḥammad Niẓām al-Dīn محمّد نظام الدّين
Title: Nikāt al-zakāt
Title: نكات الزّكات
2. ff. 33v-175v

Delhi Persian 253(b), ff. 33v-175v.

Untitled work abridging the polemic treatise by Muḥammad Niẓām al-Dīn, entitled Nikāt al-zakāt, dealing with Islamic heresies in India, especially the Shīʿah faith (termed Rāfiz̤īyah here), additionally supplemented here with excerpts from named Shīʿah authorities in support of the main thesis.

Varying portions of some pages are written with the text laid out in alternating oblique orientations.

Dense annotations in part; cropped.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
3. ff. 176r-189v

Delhi Persian 1208(c), ff. 176r-189v.

Polemic treatise on Sunnī and Shīʿah perspectives on companions of the Prophet Muḥammad, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Varying portions of some pages are written with the text laid out in alternating oblique orientations.

Calligraphic naskh annotations including the first verse of sūrat Baqarahfrom the Qurʾān(1: II).

Dense annotations in part; cropped.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Title: Faz̤āʾil-i aṣḥāb-i aḥbāb-i Risālat
Title: فضائل اصحاب احباب رسالت
4. ff. 190r-195v

Delhi Persian 253(d), ff. 190r-195v.

Polemic treatise on Sunnī and Shīʿah perspectives on companions of the Prophet Muḥammad by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Varying portions of some pages are written with the text laid out in alternating oblique orientations.

Dense annotations in part; cropped.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Title: Dar faz̤āʾil-i aṣḥāb
Title: در فضائل اصحاب
5. ff. 196r-201v

Delhi Persian 253(e), ff. 196r-201v.

Untitled treatise on Amīr Ḥamzah(d. 3/625) by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
6. ff. 202r-223v

Delhi Persian 253(f), ff. 202r-223v.

Untitled Arabic polemic treatise written from the Sunnī perspective critiquing the Shīʿah faith (termed Rāfiz̤īyah here), especially the writings of ʿAbd Allāh Shūstarī, addressing particular allegations against the Caliph Abū Bakr and others, by Muḥammad Fākhir Hindī al-Ilāh'ābādī, writing in 1150/1737-8.

Not dated at end.

Annotations and corrections.

Extensive Persian notes extending the thesis of the Arabic treatise follow, concluding with comments on the Farhang-i Jahāngīrī.

Transcribed tightly in a squat shikastah āmīz.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
7. ff. 224v-257r

Delhi Persian 253(g), ff. 224v-257r.

Untitled Arabic hagiographic treatise by an unnamed author, on the subject of Shīʿah perspectives on the imamate and imams, abridging in the style of a safīnah or miscellany the Kashf al-ghummah fī maʿrifat al-aʾimmahby Shaykh ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsá ibn Abū al-Fatḥ al-Irbilī(d. 692/1293).

The work ends without formal conclusion.

Not dated at end.

Scribal taʿlīq.

Language(s): Arabic
8. f. 258r

Delhi Persian 253(h), f. 258r.

Exercises of calligraphic naskh of the basmalah and the first verse of sūrat Baqarahfrom the Qurʾān(1: II).

Not dated at end.

Arabic and Persian annotations on the reverse.

Language(s): Arabic and Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 258 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 160 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1600-1799 1600 - 1799 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876

1876

Government of India

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