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IO Islamic 3716

Record Id:
032-004341640
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Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3716
Title:
Romance of Amir Mukhtar Saqafi
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
200 ff. (part foliated)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1861
End Date:
1861
Date Range:
1861
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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IO Islamic 3716

Romance of Amir Mukhtar Saqafi

Contents

1 copy of Mukhtār'nāmah

Anonymously written prose version of the romance of Amīr Abū Isḥāq Mukhtār ibn Abū ʿUbayd ibn Masʿūd al-S̲aqafī (d. 67/687), the ruler of Kufa, who challenged Umayyad and Zubayrid authority, while pursuing the named perpetrators of atrocities against Imām Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn and his family

The work lacks a preface or introduction

Crude illuminated headpiece added later to opening, with outlined gold wash interlinear taḥrīr

Dated at end: completed during the night of Wednesday, 19 Muḥarram 1278/27 July 1861, by Aṣghar ʿAlī Bayg known as Sangī Bayg, for his singular friend Mirzā Khudā Bakhsh Bayg Khān

Language(s): Persian
Title: Mukhtār'nāmah
Title: مختار نامه

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 200 ff. (part foliated)
Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1861-07-27 Wednesday, 19 Muḥarram 1278 AH; 27 July 1861 CE ; India

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