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Subject(s)

• Islamic sermons, Persian—19th century [Browse]
• Religious life—Islam [Browse]
• Spiritual life—Islam [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn, 1811 or 1812-1895 or 1896 [Browse]

Related name

• محمد باقر بن زين العابدين، 1811 or 12-1895 or 6. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of the author's sermons, dictated to his student Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Ashraf al-Ṭālqānī, who arranged and edited them; first published in Tabrīz in 1312 H [1894 or 5] (Āghā Buzurg, XVI, 359).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• On front cover: Label reading "303" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 14-21 lines per page; written in shikastah in black by two hands on machine-made paper. Arabic sections in naskh. Rubrication in violet and catchwords on fol. 127-289. Topics noted in margins. Fol. 125a-125b, 126b-127a blank; collation notes on fol. 126a. Change of hands for mujallad 2 on fol. 127b. Occasional staining and paper repairs; textblock partially detached from binding. In good condition.
• Origin: First mujallad completed by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn in Ramaḍān 1310 H [March-April 1893]; the volume was checked against the original during Ramaḍān by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad (fol. 124b). Second mujallad copied by the author's student, Muḥammad [ibn ʻAlī Ashraf] al-Ṭālqānī (fol. 127b), then collated by Muḥammad Bāqir (fol. 289b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الاول بلا اول كان قبله والآخر بلا آخر يكون بعده الذي قصرت عن رؤيته ابصار الناظرين وعجزت عن نعمته اوهام الواصفين

Binding note

Marbled paper over pasted boards; cloth spine.

Language note

Persian.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah, XVI, 359

Other title(s)

• Fawāʼid al-mashāhid
• فوائد المشاهد

OCLC

793340338

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