Details

Subject(s)

• Badakhshān (Afghanistan)—Genealogy [Browse]

Summary note

Digital image of a document presenting the genealogy of Divānah Shāh, son of Sayyid ʿAbdullāh, which is traced through the figure of Shāh Niʿmatullāh Valī back to the Prophet Muḥammad and thence to Adam. Another section of the inscription contains an account of the genealogy of Nāṣir-i Khusraw.

Notes

• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم هذا نصب نامۀ حضرت سلطان العارفین و برهان المحققین حضرت سلطان سید ناصر ابن سید خسرو
• Explicit: تحریر فی التاریخ شهر سفر سنۀ ۱۱۰۳ یکهزارو صدو دو بود که بنمود سفر جانب منزل اصلی شنو ای نیک سیر
• Date: Safar 1103 (October-November 1691).
• The document is an inscription written on a wooden wall inside a shrine. The inscription is in good condition.
• Badakhshan Manuscript Project.
• Location: Zībāk.

Source of description

Original document; title from heading on text.

Heading on other portion of text

• Naṣab-nāmah-i Nāṣir-i Khusraw

Other standard number

• BMP047

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