Details

Subject(s)

• ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph approximately 600-661—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic sermons, Arabic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic sermons, Persian—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Sermons—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shiites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Contains

• Fārigh Gīlānī, Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan. Fārighʹnāmah. [Browse]
• فارغ گىلانى، حسىن بن حسن. فارغ‌نامه. [Browse]

Summary note

Two Shiite texts; the first is a collection of sermons, and the second is a poem on ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Physical description: Text 1 is 21 lines per page; text 2 is 20 lines per page in four columns. Written in nastaʻliq in black, possibly by the same hand, on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining and smudging; some paper repairs, particularly on fol. 1-5 with loss of some text. Each text paginated separately in Arabic script. Inserts between fol. 6-7, 7-8, 25-26, 32-33, 59-60, 61-62, 109-110.
• Origin: Dates are defective, but paper appears to be from the late 17th cent. Text 1 dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 174 H [1074? = July 1664] by ʻĀdil valad-i Khānum-i Dār-i Muntaqá (fol. 148a). Text 2 dated year 18 [1080? = 1669 or 70] (fol. 210a); this copy is older than the three copies mentioned by Āghā Buzurg (XIX, 252), which date to 1258 H or later.
• Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله الذي جعل شهر رمضان اعظم شهور النبن [!] وصيامه موجباً للرحمة و[ال]مغفرة والرضوان
• Incipit (text 2): سىر اين نام نام آن معبود * که ز نامش دو کون ىافت وجود

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-148a: Kitāb-i Majālis al-vāʻiẓīn / min taṣānīf-i ʻumdat al-muḥaqqiqīn va qudvat al-mufassirīn [Shahīd-i Avval]. Collection of eleven sermons in Arabic and Persian; attributed to al-Shahīd al-Awwal by a later hand. No reference to such a work has been located. Sermon topics: (1) fasting during Ramaḍān; (2) zakāh, ḥajj, and jihād; (3) the reward of glorifying God; (4) Laylat al-Qadr and Sūrat al-Qadr; (5) obedience and disobedience; (6) birth of the Prophet; (7) states of the Prophet; (8) the Prophet; (9) the battles of Badr, Uḥud, and Khandaq; (10) the battles of Khaybar, Makkah, and Khandaq; (11) the battles of the Prophet.
• 2. fol. 149b-210a: Hāz̲ā Kitāb-i Fārigh. Mas̲navī on ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib; begins with second verse.
• 3. fol. 210b: [Notes, including a summary of the five principles of religion].

Provenance

On fol. 149a, owner's note by Mīrzā Muḥammad dated 1 Jumādá I 1192 [28 May 1778]; the dates 1212, 1214, and 1217 [?] are also noted. On fol. 157b-158a, several smudged stamps. On fol. 210a, two birthdates noted in 1303 and 1325.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XIX, 252

OCLC

776903051

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