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Delhi Persian 313
- Record Id:
- 032-004580218
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- 032-004580218
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100193852930.0x000019
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 313
- Title:
- Shiʻa-sunni polemical sectarian works (a-f)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- 032-004580218
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-004580218
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- ff. ii+175+iv
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1857
- Date Range:
- 1800-1857
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
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- Names:
- Bābā Afz̤al, fl 13th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000358643888,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/211269318
Dihlawī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Aḥmad, 1746?-1824?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012280004X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/53999017
Dihlawī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Aḥmad, 1746?-1824?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012280004X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/53999017
Dildār ʻAlī, 1752?-1820?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000004890056X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/36805746
Dildār ʻAlī, 1752?-1820?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000004890056X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/36805746
Javād ʿAlī
Muḥammad Karāmat ʿAlī
Muḥammad Qulī ibn Muḥammad Nīshāpūrī Kāntūrī
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--Controversial literature
Sunnites--Relations--Shīʻah - TEI:
-
India Office Library
Delhi Persian 313
Shiʻa-sunni polemical sectarian works (a-f)
Contents
Summary of Contents: A collection, called Majmūʻah in a pencilled note on f. 1r, of Shiʻa polemical sectarian works.Delhi Persian 313a. ff. 1v-35rAuthor: Javād ʿAlī جواد علیTitle: Naql-i khaṭṭ-i shīʻahTitle: نقل خط شیعهLetters between Javād ʻAlī and the Shiʻa controversialist Dildār ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Muʻīn al-Naṣīrābādī (d. 1820).
Also includes letters between Javād ʻAlī and other correspondents.
Language(s): PersianReferences
R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/38, f. 5.Delhi Persian 313b. ff. 35r-42rTitle: Taṭhīr al-muʼminīn ʻan najāsat al-mushrikīnTitle: تطهیر المومنین عن نجاسة المشرکینA polemic against muftis who declare unbelievers to be ritually clean by Muftī Muḥammad Qulī ibn Muḥammad Nīshāpūrī Kāntūrī (d. 1844).
Language(s): PersianReferences
R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/38, f. 6.Delhi Persian 313c. ff. 43v-70rTitle: Mabḥas̱ taḥqīq al-shīʻahTitle: مبحث تحقیق الشیعةA reply to an anti-sunni polemic, apparently the Sayf-i Nāṣirī.
The title is taken from a note signed by Muḥammad Karīm Allāh on f. 43r. The work is incomplete at the end.
Language(s): PersianReferences
R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/38, f. 7 (digital images currently unavailable).Delhi Persian 313d. ff. 72v-154rTitle: Radd-i ʻaqīdah-ʼi ḤusāmTitle: رد عقیده حسامA reply by Rashīd al-Dīn Dihlavi to part of Dildār ʻAlī's polemic Ḥusām al-islām, itself directed against ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Dihlavī's anti-Shiʻa treatise Tuḥfah-ʼi Is̱nāʼ-ʻasharīyah. The title is supplied.
A note on f. 72r is signed by Muḥammad Karīm Allāh. .
Language(s): PersianReferences
R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/38, f. 8 (digital images currently unavailable).C.A. Storey, Persian Literature: A Bio-bibliographical Survey, in Storey Online , vol.IV §454(5b)Delhi Persian 313e . ff. 155r-164vA Shiʻa response without title or author to arguments proposed in ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Dihlavī's Tuḥfah-ʼi Is̱nā-ʻasharīyah.
Language(s): PersianReferences
R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/38, f. 9 (digital images currently unavailable).Delhi Persian 313f. ff. 166r-174vTitle: Ṣawlat-i ghaz̤anfarīyahTitle: صولت غضنفریهSelections from Rashīd al-Dīn Dihlavī's Ṣawlat-i ghaz̤anfarīyah, a refutation of the Shiʻa practice of temporary marriage (mutʿah), preceded by an introduction by the anonymous compiler.
Followed on ff. 174v-175r by a list of points which Sunnis have disagreed with in Dildār ʻAlī's Ṣavārim.
Language(s): PersianReferences
R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/38, f. 10 (digital images currently unavailable).C.A. Storey, Persian Literature: A Bio-bibliographical Survey, in Storey Online , vol.IV §137Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: ff. ii+175+ivDimensions (leaf): 223 × 165 mm.Foliation:India Office stamped foliation; individual works are numbered separately in Persian.
Collation
Catchwords.
Condition
Poor condition; only one detached board survives.
Layout
Columns:1
Written lines: 115
15 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink with headings and overlinings in red.
Additions:Pencilled note on f. ir lists the contents of the majmūʻah.
Some marginal notes.
Seal(s):Binding
Only one board is preserved of an original three-quarter leather binding with marbled board; paper pastedown.
Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. ir, 42v, 43r, 71v, 72r, 94r, 164v, 166r, 175v).
History
Origin: Undated, 19th century CE ; IndiaProvenance and Acquisition
Owned by the theologian Mawlavī Muḥammad Karīm Allāh who flourished in the first part of the nineteenth century.
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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Surrogates
Microfilm IOL Neg 680
Funding of Cataloguing
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