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Delhi Persian 1097
- Record Id:
- 032-004341519
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004341519
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163233796.0x00002f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 1097
- Title:
- Music in Islam, 8 works (a-h)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- 032-004341519
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-004341519
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 118 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1780
- End Date:
- 1840
- Date Range:
- 1780-1840
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Abū Saʿīd Aḥmadī
Aḥmad al-Dīn
Mawlavī Qamar al-Dīn
Muḥammad Karāmat ʿAlī
Muḥammad Karīm Allāh
Muḥammad Makhṣūṣ Allāh
Muḥammad Mūsá ibn Shāh Rafīʿ al-Dīn
Muḥammad Sālim
Muḥammad Sālār
Muḥammad S̲anāʾ Allāh ibn Jalāl al-Dīn Pānīpatī
Niz̤āmuddīn Auliyā, 1236-1325,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083901058,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66579134
Pānīpatī, Muḥammad S̲anāʾ Allāh ibn Jalāl al-Dīn, d 1810,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118724224,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/3938069
Shaykh Fakhr al-Dīn Zarrādī Samanāvī Dihlavī
Ḥasan ʿAlī - Subjects:
- Islamic law--Early works to 1800
Music (Islamic law) - TEI:
-
India Office Library
Delhi Persian 1097
Music in Islam, 8 works (a-h)
Contents
Summary of Contents: Miscellaneous collection of Arabic and Persian legalistic and theoretical works on the performance and audition of music in Islam. Not dated. Leather binding covered with combed marble papers, delaminating layers revealing texts in English print and Kayathi; detached spine along right edge. Fragile.1. ff. 1v-6vItem a.
Treatise favouring the lawfulness of listening to music in accordance with the principles of Islam, by Muḥammad Sālim.
The work consists of a muqaddimah, four vaṣl, and a khātimah.
Not dated at end.
Note at beginning (f. 1r) states the work was copied by Muḥammad Karīm Allāh.
Language(s): Persian & ArabicTitle: Kashf al-qināʿ dar bayān-i ibāḥat al-samāʿTitle: كشف القناع در بيان اباحة السّماع2. ff. 7v-16vTitle: Radd al-mulāḥidah fī radd al-ghināʾTitle: ردّ الملاحدة فى ردّ الغناءItem b.
Treatise refuting the lawfulness of playing music in accordance with the principles of Islam, by Aḥmad al-Dīn.
Not dated at end.
Note at beginning (f. 7r) states the work was copied by Muḥammad Karīm Allāh.
Language(s): Persian and Arabic3. ff. 17v-70Item c.
Combination of three treatises on Ṣūfī doctrines regarding, firstly, the lawfulness of music, secondly, the unity of God and, thirdly, the prohibition of prostration in thankfulness in addition to supplications prescribed by law.
The untitled work does not state the author’s name.
Not dated at end.
Note at beginning (f. 17r) stating the work was copied by Muḥammad Karīm Allāh.
Language(s): Persian and Arabic4. ff. 71v-77vLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem d.
Transcript of a fatvá or opinion delivered on the classification of musical instruments, deeming particular groups as permissible (such as drums) and others in contravention of Islamic principles (such as flutes).
The text is followed by copies of the seals and names of signatories, including Muḥammad Makhṣūṣ Allāh 11[0]2, Muhammad Karīm Allāh RY 27, Muḥammad Mūsá ibn Shāh Rafīʿ al-Dīn, Abū Saʿīd Aḥmadī, Mawlavī Qamar al-Dīn, Ḥasan ʿAlī, Muḥammad Karāmat ʿAlī, and many more.
Not dated at end.
Note at beginning (f. 71r) states the work was copied by Muḥammad Karīm Allāh.
5. ff. 80v-86vLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem e.
Arabic treatise on the audition of music according to Ṣūfī principles, endorsed at the beginning (f. 80r) as Uṣūl al-samāʿ by Shaykh Fakhr al-Dīn Zarrādī Samanāvī Dihlavī, the successor or khalīfah of Shaykh Niẓām al-Dīn Awliyāʾ.
Not dated at end.
Note at beginning (f. 80r) states the work was copied by Muḥammad Karīm Allāh.
This work is followed by another (ff. 87v-90v), a Persian fatvá or opinion on the lawfulness of certain musical instruments with lengthy quotations in Arabic (overlined in red).
Defective at end.
Not dated at end.
Note at beginning (f. 87r) states the work was copied by Muḥammad Karīm Allāh.
6. ff. 91r-100rLanguage(s): ArabicItem f.
Arabic treatise on the lawfulness of listening to music.
Not dated at end.
Note at beginning (f. 91r) states the work was copied for Muḥammad Karīm Allāh.
7. ff. 101r-112vLanguage(s): ArabicItem g.
Arabic treatise on the lawfulness of listening to music.
Not dated at end.
Note at beginning (f. 101r) stating the work was copied for Muḥammad Karīm Allāh.
8. ff. 113v-118Language(s): Persian and ArabicItem h.
Copy of an untitled treatise by Muḥammad S̲anāʾ Allāh ibn Jalāl al-Dīn Pānīpatī (d. 1225/1810) written in response to condemnatory remarks on music in an Arabic letter from a certain Muḥammad Sālār.
Not dated at end.
Note at beginning (f. 113r) states the work was copied by Muḥammad Karīm Allāh.
Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 118 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 152 mm.Dimensions (written):Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1780-1840 18th-19th centuries CE ; IndiaRecord Sources
Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/13_f022r (digital images currently unavailable)Availability
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MSS Eur E207/13_f022r (digital images currently unavailable)Funding of Cataloguing
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