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Subject(s)

• Imams (Shiites)—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shiites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufi chants—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufism—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Traditional medicine—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Persian poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Family—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Contains

• Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn, 1692?-1766? Taḥqīq-i maʻād-i rūḥānī. [Browse]
• محمد على حزىن. تحقىق معاد روحانى. [Browse]
• Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn, 1692?-1766? Selections. [Browse]
• محمد على حزىن، 1692-1766 Selections. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of Sufi treatises, medical prescriptions, and poems in a variety of forms. The poets represented can be found on fol. ia; the list includes most of the well-known poets as well as those whose works are rare.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Physical description: Written in nastaʻliq script in black on a variety of white and tinted glazed, laid Arabic papers, safinah-style. Some papers are gold-flecked. Arabic text written in naskhi and fully vocalized. Poetry written diagonally. Damage from insects and extensive paper repairs with occasional loss of text.
• Origin: Copied by Muḥammad Ismail Aṣfahānī before 1178 AH (1764).

Binding note

Blue cloth binding.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2a-51b: [Extracts of Persian poetry].
• 2. fol. 52a-53b: [Medical prescriptions in Persian].
• 3. fol. 54a-54b: [Chants in Arabic praising the family of Muḥammad].
• 4. fol. 55a-55b: [Table of equivalencies and directions for chemical preparations in Persian].
• 5. fol. 56a-57b: [Persian text on philosophy]. Possibly an extract from a larger work; cites the pseudo-Aristotelian Secretum secretorum.
• 6. fol. 57b-58b: [Extracts in Persian].
• 7. fol. 59a-60b: [Chants in Arabic praising Ḥusayn and the Imāms and extracts from the Qurʻān].
• 8. fol. 61a-61b: [Medical prescriptions in Persian].
• 9. fol. 62a-70a: [Extracts of Persian poetry].
• 10. fol. 70b-85a: [Taḥqīq-i maʻād-i rūḥānī / Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn]. A treatise on the doctrine of resurrection.
• 11. fol. 85b: Chant extolling ʻAlī ibn Ṭālib in Arabic.
• 12. fol. 86a: [Recipes].
• 13. fol. 86b-89a: [Extracts] / Shaykh Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn. Followed by recipes in Persian.

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Source acquisition

Purchase, 2000/11/22 (2001-43).

Indexed in

Khatak, S. Shaikh Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn: His life, times and works, 229.

References

Khatak, S. Shaikh Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn: his life, times and works, 229.

Other title(s)

• Bayāz̤-i majmūʻah-i kalām-i muntakhab-i mukhtalif-i shiʻrāʾī-i mutaqaddimīn.
• بىاض مجموعه کلام منتخب مختلف شعرائي متقدمىن.
• Qurʼan. Selections
• قرآن.

OCLC

537819015

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