Details

Subject(s)

• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Religious life—Shīʻah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Tr

• Khvānsārī, Muḥammad ibn Āqā Ḥusayn, -1701? [Browse]

Related name

• خوانسارى، محمد بن آقا حسىن، -1701? [Browse]

Summary note

A Persian translation of Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Miftāḥ al-falāḥ, a text explaining daily Shiʻite religious practices, by Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Khvānsārī and dedicated to Safavid Shāh Ṣafī II [r. 1666-1694]. Translator's introduction is on fol. 1b-6a and is preceded by a khavāṣṣ on fol. 1a.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger, per Āghā Buzurg.
• Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal notes. Arabic prayers vocalized and accompanied by interlinear Persian translation. Some staining and a few paper repairs. In good condition.
• Origin: 26 Rabīʻ I 1087 H [8 June 1676], by Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Malik Maḥmūd al-Qūdajānī (fol. 139a).
• Incipit (translator's intro, fol. 1b): مفتاح فلاح دنىا و عقبى و مقدمه نجاح آخرت و اولى
• Incipit (text, fol. 6b): سپاس مر خداىرا که دلالت کرد مارا بر جاده نجات و هداىت فرمود مارا بسوى آنچه واجب مىکرداند

Binding note

Full reddish brown leather.

Language note

Persian.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), IV, 138 (no. 665)

OCLC

810144690

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