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Subject(s)

• Islamic law [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Customs and practices [Browse]
• Salat [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Volume 1 of a treatise on Islamic ritual; this volume contains the kitāb al-ṣalāh with a few leaves missing at the end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Caption title from fol. 1b.
• On fore edge: "Murshid al-ʻavāmm" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 14 lines per page; written in naskh in black on blue glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining, smudging, and paper repairs, particularly at beginning and end of ms. Fol. 1, 20-21 are replacements; fol. 1 detached. Incomplete at end.
• Incipit: الحمدلله رب العالمين ... اما بعد چنين گويد اقل العباد ابو القاسم ابن الحسن الجيلاني كه اين چند كلمه ايست در بيان مسائل عبادات حسب الاقتضاي جماعتي از برادران ديني

Binding note

Leather spine and edges with orange paper covers; red paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

According to note on fol. 1a, the ms. was previously owned by Mīrzā Mahdī ibn marḥūm Mīrzā Muḥsin Musharraf ibn Mīrzā Ḥasan Mustawfī. On 27 Shawwāl 1338 H [14 July 1920], it came into the possession of Nūr Chashm ʻIsmat Khānum.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XX, 307

Other title(s)

• Murshid al-ʻawāmm
• مرشد العوام

OCLC

810910597

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