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Scope and Contents The biographies of the most notable Muslims who professed the Shī‘ī doctrine from the earliest time of Islam to 905 A.H., 1499 C.E., when the Shī‘ī faith was recognised as the state religion in Persia by the Safavid dynasty. This work was compiled between 993 A.H. and 1010 A.H. (1585-1602 C.E.), by Qāz̤ī Sayyid Nūr-Allāh b. Sharīf al-Mar‘ashī al-Ḥusaynī al-Shustarī, who was a nobleman at the court of Mughal emperor Akbar the Great (d. 1014 A.H., 1605 C.E.) and the author of several Shī‘ī...

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A Persian translation of some of the difficult lines in the qasīdahs written by 'Alī b. Abī Ṭalib (cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muḥammad, and First Imām of Shi'i Islam). It includes comments by Mīr Sayyid Walī, who compiled it at the desire of his father.

The main text is written in nasta'līq script with the Arabic quotations from the poetry written in naskh.

Scope and Contents A monograph written in 1200 A.H. / 1785 C.E. by Ḥāfiẓ Ghulām Ḥakīmah b. Shaykh Abī’l-Fayz̤ Dihlavī, a Sunni intellectual, about Shi'a theology and religion. Its compilation was justified by the prevalence of the Shi'a sect in the region.The author must have been known also as Mawlavī ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz as the note on f.1a indicates:کتاب تصنیف مولوی عبدالعزیزThe present copy was commissioned by Mountstuart Elphinstone.Paginated, the numerals being South Asian in...