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Tales -- Arab countries

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Detail of page from the Compendium of Chronicles by Rashid al-Din. Shows text with central miniature depicting the Sultan Luhrasp, who ruled the Mazandarin Province of Iran during the late 15th century, seated on a throne, surrounded by attendants.
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chro...

Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates: 10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)

Or Ms 29: اخوان الصفا Ikhwān al-ṣafā, 1227 A.H., 1812 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 29
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The first twenty of the philosophical treatises of the Ikhwan al-ṣafa (Brethren of Purity) on the dispute between the animals and man. Printed volume.

Dates: 1227 A.H.; 1812 C.E.

Or Ms 57: مجنون لیلی العامریه Majnūn Laylá al-'Āmiriyyah, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 57
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A much celebrated love story, it is in prose, probably written by Ḥabīb b. Rabboh; the numerous verses with which the composition is interspersed are attributed to Majnūn himself (as the story's eponymous hero is named after having fallen in love with Laylá).

Dates: undated

Or Ms 58: الف لیله و لیله Alf laylah wa-laylah vol.1, 1229-1233 A.H., 1814 -1818 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 58
Scope and Contents

The "Arabian Nights " in the original Arabic; the two volumes (OR MS 58 and 59) contain the stories of 200 nights. The work has been edited by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Anṣarī al-Yamanī al-Shirwānī, who died Calcutta in 1227 A.H. (1812 C.E.). See Or Ms 55 and 56 for more of his work.

Dates: 1229-1233 A.H.; 1814 -1818 C.E.

Or Ms 59: الف لیله و لیله Alf laylah wa-laylah vol. 2, 1229-1233 A.H., 1814 -1818 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 59
Scope and Contents

The "Arabian Nights " in the original Arabic; the two volumes (OR MS 58 and 59) contain the stories of 200 nights. The work has been edited by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Anṣarī al-Yamanī al-Shirwānī, who died Calcutta in 1227 A.H. (1812 C.E.). See Or Ms 55 and 56 for more of his work.

Dates: 1229-1233 A.H.; 1814 -1818 C.E.

Or Ms 118: الف لیله (قصّهٔ هزار و یک شب) Alf laylah (qiṣṣah-i Hizar u yik shab), undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 118
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The Alf laylah, on the flyleaf labelled Qiṣṣah-i hizār-u yik shab or the "One Thousand and One Nights" in Persian, translated from the original Arabic, with the omission of the verses by Abū al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad 'Alī Simnānī Sāsānī.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 169: الف ليله و ليله Alf laylah wa-laylah, undated copy (earliest version compiled 9th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 169
Scope and Contents

The Ms. contains stories from the beginning of the "Arabian Nights " till the middle of the tale of Qamar al-Zamān, which is the 97th Ḥikāyah, or tale, in Macnaghten's edition, but the wording is very different.

Dates: undated copy (earliest version compiled 9th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 354: قصّهٔ حاتم طائی Qiṣṣa-yi Ḥātim Ṭāʼī, 1189 A.H., 1775 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 354
Scope and Contents

The popular romance of Ḥātim Ṭāʼī, a famous Pre-Islamic Arabian poet and figure known for his generosity in Arab culture. He is mentioned in the Arabian Nights and in Sa‘dī's Gulistān, among other works.

Dates: 1189 A.H.; 1775 C.E.

Or Ms 356: قصهٔ سيف الملوک و بديع الجمال Qiṣṣa-yi Sayf al-Mulūk-u Badī‘ al-Jamāl, undated copy (earliest version compiled 9th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 356
Scope and Contents

The love story of Prince Sayf al-Mulūk and Princess Badī‘ al-Jamāl, a tale adapted from the Arabian Nights.

Dates: undated copy (earliest version compiled 9th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 357: قصهٔ دليله محتاله Qiṣṣa-yi Dalīlah Muḥtālah, undated copy (earliest version compiled 9th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 357
Scope and Contents

The adventures of Dalīlah (here written Dallah) Muḥtālah in the time of the ‘Abbāsid ruler Hārūn al-Rashīd. The story has been adapted from the Arabian Nights.

Dates: undated copy (earliest version compiled 9th cent. C.E.)