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Found in 408 Collections and/or Records:

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

طبقات الكبير Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 162
Scope and Contents The first juzʼ or volume of the larger history of the Prophet Muḥammad and the several classes of his companions, their successors, and traditionists by Abū Muḥammad b. Sa‘d, who was secretary to the celebrated Al-Wāqidī, and was himself one of the earliest and most eminent historians. He died at Baghdad, at the age of 62, 230 A.H. (844 C.E.), when the work was still unfinished, but it was continued and brought down to 238 A.H. (852 C.E.) by his disciple, Abū...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

عالم آرای عبّاسی 'Alam-ārā-yi 'Abbāsī, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 84
Scope and Contents

A complete copy of the history of the life and reign of the Safavid Shāh 'Abbās I, "'Abbās the Great" (1571-1629 C.E.).

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

عیون الانباء فی طبقات الاطبّاء ‘Uyūn al-anbāʼ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʼ', undated (original text compiled 13th Cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 429
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A fragment of a manuscript containing part of the preface and first chapter of the work on the lives of physicians by Aḥmad b. al-Qāsim b. Abū ʼUṣaybi‘ah al-Sa‘dī al-Khazrajī (d. 668 A.H., 1270 C.E.). His work was composed in 643 A.H., 1245 C.E.

Dates: undated (original text compiled 13th Cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

کشف الظنون عن أسامي الکتب والفنون Kashf al-ẓunūn 'an 'asāmī al-kutub wa-al-funūn, undated copy (original text composed 17th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 24
Scope and Contents

An excellent MS. of an abridgement of the encyclopaedic and biographical dictionary of the famous Muṣṭafá b. 'Abd-allāh Kātib Chalabī, known as Ḥājjī Khalfah, who died (circ.) 1067 A.H. (1657 C.E.).

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

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

وفیات الاعیان Wafayāt al-a'yān, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 21
Scope and Contents

These are the famous biographies commenced in Cairo, 654 A.H. (1256 C.E.) and completed there, 672 A.H. (1274 C.E.) by the celebrated scholar, poet, and historian, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrahīm b. Abī Bakr b. Khallikān (d. 681A.H., 1282 C.E.).

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

وفیات الاعیان Wafayāt al-a'yān, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 22
Scope and Contents

These are the famous biographies commenced in Cairo, 654 A.H. (1256 C.E.) and completed there, 672 A.H. (1274 C.E.) by the celebrated scholar, poet, and historian, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrahīm b. Abī Bakr b. Khallikān (d. 681A.H., 1282 C.E.).

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