Karbalāʾ, Battle of, Karbalāʾ, Iraq, 680
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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 379: مراثی هاشم علی Marāsī-yi Hāshim ‘Alī, 1193 A.H., 1779 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 379
Scope and Contents
The marāsī, or elegies, on ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40 A.H., 661 C.E.), the first Shī‘ī Imām and fourth Rāshīdūn Caliph, as well as his sons and grandsons. The author, Hāshim ‘Alī, is considered the first poet to write poetry in the Urdū language.
This manuscript is the first volume (see Or. Ms. 380 for vol. 2).
Dates:
1193 A.H.; 1779 C.E.
Or Ms 380: مراثی هاشم علی Marāsī-yi Hāshim ‘Alī, 1193 A.H., 1779 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 380
Scope and Contents
The marāsī, or elegies, on ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40 A.H., 661 C.E.), the first Shī‘ī Imām and fourth Rāshīdūn Caliph, as well as his sons and grandsons. The author, Hāshim ‘Alī, is considered the first poet to write poetry in the Urdū language.
This manuscript is the second volume (see Or. Ms. 379 for vol. 1).
Dates:
1193 A.H.; 1779 C.E.