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Subject(s)

• Islamic ethics [Browse]
• Sufism—Prayers and devotions [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Kirmānī, Muḥammad Taqī ibn Kāẓim, -1800 or 1801. Kanz al-asmāʼ. [Browse]
• کرمانى، محمد تقى بن کاظم، -1800 or 1801. کبرىت احمر. [Browse]
• نورى، رضا قلى بن محمد قلى، 1800 or 1801-1871 or 1872. رىاض المحبىن. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of two texts: Riyāz̤ al-muḥibbīn, a collection of parables and stories for the purpose of illustrating Islamic ethics; and Kibrīt-i aḥmar, a Niʻmat Allāhī text on supplications and litanies. Notes on fol. 1a, 146b.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• On front cover: Label reading "220" in Arabic script.
• On spine: Label reading "220 Kibrīt-i aḥmar 221" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on modern blue paper. Arabic quotes vocalized; catchwords. Fol. 1b-5a, 130a-133a, 146a, 147a-147b blank. Some damp staining in outer margin.
• Origin: Text 1 completed 3 Jumādá II 1305 H. [16 February 1888] in Sulṭānʹābād-i ʻIrāq [Arak] (fol. 129a). Text 2 completed 10 Jumādá II 1305 H. [23 February 1888] (fol. 145b).

Binding note

Limp brown leather with simple tooled geometric design.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 5b-129b: Riyāz̤ al-muḥibbīn / [Riz̤ā Qulī ibn Muḥammad Qulī al-Nūrī].
• 2. fol. 133b-145b: Kibrīt al-aḥmar / min muṣannafāt al-ʻālim al-fāḍil Mīrzā Muḥammad Taqī Kirmānī al-mulaqqab bi-Muẓaffar ʻAlī Shāh.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XII, 335; XVII, 260

Other format(s)

Published (Riyāz̤ al-muḥibbīn, Qum, [1997]; Kibrīt-i aḥmar, Tehran, [1971]).

OCLC

729412878

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