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Subject(s)

• Prayer—Islam [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on the mysteries of prayer, in five maqām.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• On front cover: Label reading "358" in Arabic script.
• On fore edge: "Asrār al-ṣalāh" in Arabic script.
• Ms. erroneously foliated in Western numerals beginning on the third leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 12 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on machine-made paper. Arabic quotations in large naskh. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Text framed in red. Fol. ia-iia, 117b-132b blank. Light staining and smudging; otherwise in excellent condition.
• Origin: Copy completed by Muḥammad Riz̤ā ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Yazdī in Jumādá I 1283 H [September-October 1866] (fol. 117a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمىن ... اما بعد معروض مىدارد عبد فانى علىنقى بن محمد رضاء الهمدانى غفر الله عنهما که در گاهى بود که بخاطر اخلاص مىرسىد بعضى از لالى خفية و درر نکات مخفىه صلوة را

Binding note

Full orange-brown leather over pasted boards, with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and corner designs, framed by blind-tooled fillets and blind-stamped scroll pattern.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• Maqām 1, Tawḥīd-i ās̲ārī
• Maqām 2, Tawḥīd-i afʻālī
• Maqām 3, Tawḥīd-i asmāʼī
• Maqām 4, Tawḥīd-i ṣifātī
• Maqām 5, Tawḥīd-i z̲ātī.

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References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XX, 289

Other title(s)

مرآة الهداة في كشف اسرار الصلاة

Title in Āghā Buzurg, Dharīʻah

• Mirʼāt al-hadāh fī kashf asrār al-ṣalāh

OCLC

758390192

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