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Islamic astrology

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 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

 Fonds
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 363: رساله در سعادت ونحوستِ ايّام Risālah dar sa‘ādat-u nuḥūsat-i ayyām, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 363
Scope and Contents

An enumeration of a few lucky and unlucky days, with hints for the remedy of evil. It is ascribed by ‘Alī b. Ṭāʼūs to the sixth Twelver Shī‘ī Imām Ja‘far b. Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq (d. 148 A.H., 765 C.E.). The present version is by ‘Ibād-Allāh Muḥammad Bakr b. Muḥammad Taqī. One of the manuscripts with which the present manuscript is bound, Or. Ms. 308, is dated 1066 A.H. (1655 C.E.) and bears the name of the scribe Murtaẓá Qulī Qazvīnī.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 364: فال نامه Fāl-nāmah, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 364
Scope and Contents

The book of divinations ascribed to Alexander the Great (d. 323 B.C.). It contains, in tables, the names of the twelve divisions of heaven, the zodiac.


One of the manuscripts with which the present manuscript is bound, Or. Ms. 308, is dated 1066 A.H. (1655 C.E.) and bears the name of the scribe Murtaẓá Qulī Qazvīnī.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 365: فال نامه Fāl-nāmah, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 365
Scope and Contents

A book of divination ascribed to ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40 A.H., 661 C.E.).


One of the manuscripts with which the present ms. is bound, Or. Ms. 308, is dated 1066 A.H. (1655 C.E.) and bears the name of the scribe Murtaẓá Qulī Qazvīnī.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 366: فال نامه Fāl-nāmah, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 366
Scope and Contents

A translation from the Arabic of a book of divination ascribed to ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40 A.H., 661 C.E.), and versified by the poet Khwājah Rashīd al-Dīn "Waṭwāṭ" (d. 578 A.H., 1182 C.E.).


One of the manuscripts with which the present ms. is bound, Or. Ms. 308, is dated 1066 A.H. (1655 C.E.) and bears the name of the scribe Murtaẓá Qulī Qazvīnī.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 367: فال نامه Fāl-nāmah, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 367
Scope and Contents

A book of divination ascribed to the sixth Twelver Shī‘ī Imām, Ja‘far b. Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq (d. 148 A.H., 765 C.E.)


One of the manuscripts with which the present ms. is bound, Or. Ms. 308, is dated 1066 A.H. (1655 C.E.) and bears the name of the scribe Murtaẓá Qulī Qazvīnī.

Dates: undated