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Or Ms 167: الحریري al-Ḥarīrī, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 167
Scope and Contents A short notice (9 folios) on the biography of Abū al-Qāsim b. 'Alī b. Muḥammad b. 'Usmān al-Ḥarīrī, the author of the well-known Maqāmāt, extracted from the Wafayāt al-A'yān of the celebrated Ibn Khallikān (d. 681 A.H., 1282 C.E.). The work was commenced in Cairo, 654 A.H. (1256 C.E.), and completed there 672 A.H. (1274 C.E.).Bound with OR MS 157 and OR MS 160. In the same hand as OR MS 160 ...
Dates: undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 204: تاريخ فيروزشاهی Tārīkh-i Fīrūzshāhī, 1074 A.H., 1663 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 204
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A history of the life and reign of Fīrūz-Shāh., Sulṭān of Dehlī (r. 752-790 A.H., 1351-1388 C.E.).

Dates: 1074 A.H.; 1663 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 242: تکملهٔ يافعی Takmilah-yi Yāfi‘ī, undated (original text compiled 14th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 242
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A Persian translation of the original Arabic titled Khulāṣat al-Mafākhir fī Manāqib al-Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir by Shaykh ‘Abd-Allāh Yāfi‘ī (d. 768 A.H., 1366 C.E.). It contains two hundred and sixteen stories which are primarily about the celebrated Sufi saint and eponymous founder of the Qādirī Ṭarīqah, Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (d. 561 A.H., 1166 C.E.).


Frontispiece illuminated with gold.

Dates: undated (original text compiled 14th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 243: رشحات عين الحيات Rashaḥāt-i ‘ayn al-ḥayāt, undated (original text compiled 17th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 243
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A well-known collection of biographies of spiritual guides of the Naqshbandī order and principally of Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn ‘Ubayd- Allāh, by his disciple Mawlānā Fakhr al-Dīn ‘Alī b. al-Ḥusayn al-Wā‘iz al-Kāshifī, better known as "Sāfī" (d. 939 A.H., 1532 C.E.).

Dates: undated (original text compiled 17th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 244: مجالس المؤمنين Majālis al-muʼminīn, 1157 A.H., 1744 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 244
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...
Dates: 1157 A.H.; 1744 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 245: تأريخ بابا نصيب Taʼrīkh-i Bābā Naṣīb, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 245
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This is a work on history by Bābā Naṣīb, who was a celebrated Sufi saint of Kashmīr (d.1047 A.H., 1637 C.E.). It is also known as the "Rīshī-nāmah" or the "Darvīsh-nāmah-yi Mullā Naṣīb".

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
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Or Ms 246: تواريخ مير سيد شريف "راقم" ''Tawārīkh-i Mīr Sayyid Sharīf" Rāqim, 1145 A.H., 1732 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 246
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A chronological account of some of the kings, learned and holy men who flourished, 736-1045 A.H. (1335-1635 C.E.), during the period of Mughal sovereignty in Central Asia, Persia, and India.

Dates: 1145 A.H.; 1732 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 247: بهجته العالم Bahjat al-‘ālam, undated (original text compiled 18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 247
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A copy of a work on general geography by Ḥakīm Mahārat-Khān Iṣfahānī, who completed it some time after 1124 A.H. (1712 C.E). The work is principally based upon the geographical and biographical encyclopaedia Haft-Iqlīm by Amīn Aḥmad Rāzī (compiled 16th cent. C.E.).


Frontispieces illuminated with gold.

Dates: undated (original text compiled 18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 408: تأريخ تيموری Taʼrīkh-i Tīmūrī, 1004 A.H., 1596 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 408
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This is an anonymous abridgement of the Ẓafar-nāmah by Mawlānā Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī (d. 858 A.H.,1454 C.E.). It is a biography of the great conqueror Tīmūr (Tamerlane) from his birth, 736 A.H., 1336 C.E., to his death, 807 A.H.,1405 C.E..


The section of the manuscript where the date (1004 A.H.) appears is injured, it is bearly legible.

Dates: 1004 A.H.; 1596 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 420: روضة الاحباب Rawz̤at al-Aḥbāb, 1027 A.H., 1617 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 420
Scope and Contents A famous work, containing a full history of the Prophet Muḥammad, his birth, character, and actions, and also an account of his descendants, friends, disciples, and successors. It was completed in 900 A.H., 1494 C.E., by Amīr Sayyid ‘Aṭā-allāh (also known as Jamāl al-Husaynī) b. Muḥammad Faz̤l-Allāh of Shīrāz.The whole work was divided into three maqṣads (books), of which this manuscript contains only part of ...
Dates: 1027 A.H.; 1617 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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