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Subject(s)

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

Former owner

• Ṭabāṭabāʾī, ʻAlī Naqī [Browse]
• Nūrī, Faz̤l Allāh, -1909 [Browse]

Related name

• طباطبائي، علي نقي [Browse]
• نورى، فضل الله، d. 1909 [Browse]

Summary note

The prayer ritual based on the practices of the 12 Shiʻite Imams.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text on fol. 1b.
• Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on cream glazed, laid European paper. Text framed in black and red with outer marginal red border. Headings and overlines in red; catchwords. Marginal damp staining; occasional smudging. In excellent condition.
• Origin: 1247 H [1831 or 2] (fol. 277b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي توحد بالملك فلا ند له في ملكوت سلطانه وتفرد بالعز فلا ضد له في جبروت كبريائه

Binding note

Full brown leather over pasted boards, with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants that have been painted with floral design. Front cover missing and back cover detached. Yellow paper doublure.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

On fol. 1a, 277b, large smudged owner's seal. On fol. 1a, several owner's notes: ʻAlī Naqī al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī and Ḥājj Shaykh Faz̤l Allāh Nūrī (post-mortem).

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), III, 404

Other format(s)

Published (Qum, Iran: 1989).

Other title(s)

• Tuḥfat al-abrār
• تحفة الابرار

OCLC

801817301

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