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Subject(s)

• Contracts (Islamic law)—Forms [Browse]
• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Persian poetry [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, 1627 or 1628-approximately 1699. Shukūk al-ṣalāh. [Browse]
• مجلسي، محمد باقر بن محمد تقي، 1627 or 1628-approximately 1699. شكوك الصلاة. [Browse]
• ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621. Nān va ḥalvā. [Browse]
• عاملى، بهاء الدىن محمد بن حسىن، 1547-1621. نان و حلوا. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of Persian poetry, Arabic prayers, and prose texts on rituals and legal matters; likely used as a mulla's handbook.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 57a.
• On back cover: Label reading "379" in Arabic script.
• On spine: Label reading "Bayāz̤-i jung / Nān [...]" in Arabic script.
• Ms. erroneously foliated; leaf between fol. 59-60 skipped. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: Varying lines per page; poetry in 2-3 columns. Safīnah-style. Fol. 31-128 written in naskh in black on heavy glazed, laid European paper, pre-19th century, with rubrication and occasional catchwords. Remainder of ms. written in a variety of scripts in black on machine-made paper. Fol. 1b blank; inserts between fol. 56-57, 87-88. Extensive water damage and some paper repairs, but text still largely legible.
• Incipit (text 4): الحمد لله الذي ازاح ظلمات الشبهات والشكوك والاوهام عن مناهج المسائل والاحكام بشريعة سيد الانام وروايات اهل بيته الكرام
• Incipit (text 5): الحمد لله الذي جعل الدعاء سلما يرتقي به الى اعلى المراتب المكارم
• Incipit (text 6):اما بعد حمد الله على افضاله ... فيقول افقر العباد الى رحمة الله الغني محمد المستشر ببهاء الدين العاملي ... هذه نبذة من السوانح وجملة من الموانح قد سنح اكثرها في طريق حج بيت الله الحرام وزيارة سيد الانام

Binding note

Limp brown leather.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-7b: [Poetry and prayers].
• 2. fol. 7b-14b: [Forms for contracts].
• 3. fol. 15a-33a: [Poetry, prayers, and notes].
• 4. fol. 33a-57a: Risālah-i marḥūm-i Majlisī dar aḥkām-i shakk va sahv. Treatise on doubt and forgetfulness during prayer; in Persian.
• 5. fol. 57a-116b: Jannat al-bāqiyah / [Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī al-Kafʻamī]. A compendium of prayers in forty fuṣūl which is an abridgment of the author's al-Miṣbāḥ; in Arabic and complete to faṣl 38. On fol. 57a, the work is attributed to Mīr Dāmād, but according to Āghā Buzurg (V, 161-2), it was al-Kafʻamī who wrote the abridgment which was later translated into Persian by a number of translators, including Mīr Dāmād.
• 6. fol. 117b-126b: [Nān va ḥalvā] / Muḥammad al-mushtahir bi-Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Sufi mas̲navī in Persian.
• 7. fol. 127b-128b: [Chart listing what invalidates prayer].
• 8. fol. 129a-133b: [Poetry and notes].

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References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), V, 161-2; XIV, 216 (no. 2258); XXIV, 30-31

OCLC

789681594

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