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Delhi Persian 309

Record Id:
032-004580217
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Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 309
Title:
Collection of Shiʻa and Sunni polemical treatises relating to the taʻziyah ritual (a-d)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. i+140+i
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1857
Date Range:
1800-1857
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusaynī
Bābā Afz̤al, fl 13th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000358643888,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/211269318
Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn Khān Dihlavī
Nādir Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1688-1747,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066753540,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017634
Subjects:
Shīʻah--Relations--Sunnites
Sunnites--Relations--Shīʻah
Taʻziyah
TEI:

India Office Library

Delhi Persian 309

Contents

Collection of Shiʻa and Sunni polemical treatises relating to the taʻziyah ritual (a-d)

Delhi Persian 309a. ff. 1v-3r
Title: Javāb-i dū ḥadīs̱
Title: جواب دو حدیث

A Shiʻa tract by an unnamed author compiled from Sunni authorities legitimising the practice of tearing clothes and beating the face during the taʻzīyah ritual.

The title is taken from the heading.

Microfilm: IOL Neg 393

Language(s): Persian

References

R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/38, f. 57 (digital images currently unavailable).
Delhi Persian 309b. ff. 4r-12r
Author: Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn Khān Dihlavī محمد رشید الدین خان دهلوی

An untitled Sunni response to Delhi Persian 309a by an author identified in a note on f. 4r as Mawlavī Rashīd al-Dīn Khān who can presumably be identified with Rashīd al-Dīn Dihlavī, known for his anti-Shiʻa works.

Microfilm: IOL Neg 393.

Language(s): Persian

References

R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/38, f. 55 (digital images currently unavailable).
Delhi Persian 309c. ff. 13v-42v
Author: Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusaynī ابو علی الحسینی
Title: Kashf al-ghayn ʻan taʻzīyah al-Ḥusayn
Title: کشف الغین عن تعزیة الحسین

A Shiʻa refutation of Delhi Persian 309b on the subject of mourning at taʻziyahs by the author of Kashf al-ghimām ʻan taʻzīyah al-imām, ie. Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusaynī.

The work is divided into an introduction, four discourses (maqālah) and a conclusion.

Each line is numbered 1-17 in the margin.

Microfilm: IOL Neg 394.

Language(s): Persian

References

R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/38, f. 54 (digital images currently unavailable).
Delhi Persian 309d. ff. 43v-140v
Title: Taṣfīyah al-´an̄āqib ʻan bāb taʻziyah Sayyidnā Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Title: تصفیة العناکب عن باب تعزیة سیّدنا حسین بن علی ابی طالب

A Sunni reply by an unnamed author to the controversy over practices at Shiʻa taʻziyas. It is prefaced by an introduction in five parts (faṣl).

Microfilm: IOL Neg 395.

Language(s): Persian

References

R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/38, f. 53 (digital images currently unavailable).

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: ff. i+140+i
Dimensions (leaf): 292 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

India Office stamped foliation.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Fair; remargined at time of binding; binding now detached.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 17

17 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink with headings in red.

Additions:

A note on f. 4r describes the author, Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn Dihlavī in adulatory terms and as deceased, indicating that the writer, perhaps a former owner, was a firm Sunni, writing after 1243/1827-8, the year of Rashīd al-Dīn's death.

Some marginal notes.

Contents note listing 3 works on f. i recto.

Binding

Three-quarter leather 19th century binding with marbled boards.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 3v, 4r, 12v. 13r, 42v, 43r, 140v).

History

Origin: Undated, 19th century CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

Belonged to a Sunni owner some time after 1827 (note on f. 4r).

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

Acquired by the Government of India in 1876

Record Sources

Based on R. Levy's descriptions in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III referred to above. Revised by Ursula Sims-Williams

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