Iran -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 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 71: روضة الصفاء Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ, 1057 A.H., 1647 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 71
Scope and Contents
An excellent copy (seven volumes bound in one) in good preservation of the famous work on general history, composed around the turn of the 16th century C.E., by Muḥammad b. Khāvandshāh b. Maḥmūd, “Mīrkhānd”.
Dates:
1057 A.H.; 1647 C.E.
Or Ms 72: حبیب السیر في اخبار افراد البشر Ḥabīb al-siyar fī akhbār afrād al-bashar, undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 72
Scope and Contents
This MS comprises the first two juz', or parts, of the third volume of the well-known general history, which was originally written in 927-930 A.H. (1521-1524 C.E.), by the grandson of Mīrkhānd who had completed Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ (see Or Ms 71), Ghiyās al-Dīn, known as Khānd-Amīr.
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)
Or Ms 84: عالم آرای عبّاسی 'Alam-ārā-yi 'Abbāsī, undated
Item
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
Or Ms 85: تحفة العالم Tuḥfat al-'Ālam, 1222 A.H., 1807 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 85
Scope and Contents
A descriptive account of the city of Shustar, to which is appended a story of the life and travels of the author, 'Abd al-Laṭīf b. Abī Ṭālib b. Nūr al-Dīn b. Ni'mat-allāh al-Ḥusayn al-Mūsavī al-Shūstarī. The author compiled this work in India, dedicated to, and named it after, the Sayyid Abū al-Qāsim b. Sayyid Raz̤ī-al-Dīn, entitled Mīr 'Alam Khān (d.1223 A.H., 1808 C.E.), the Prime Minister of Hyderabad (see fol. 1a). The historical part of this work is based upon the work of Sayyid...
Dates:
1222 A.H.; 1807 C.E.
Or Ms 86: فوائد صفویه Fawā'id-i Ṣafaviyyah, 1223 A.H., 1808 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 86
Scope and Contents
This is only the fifth maqālah (chapter) of the Fawā'id-i Ṣafaviyyah, a history of the Safavid dynasty of Persia, which was originally written, according to the chronogram in 1211 A.H. (1796 C.E.), and dedicated to Abū al-Fatḥ Sulṭān Muḥammad Mīrzā Khān Bahādur, the last of the Safavid dynasty, who lived as an exile at Lucknow and received a pension from the East India Company. The author is Abu al-Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm Qazvīnī, who had come over to his royal...
Dates:
1223 A.H.; 1808 C.E.
Or Ms 87: ظهوریهٔ صفویه Ẓuhuriyya-i Ṣafaviyyah, 1222 A.H., 1807 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 87
Scope and Contents
A treatise on the rise and rule of the Wahābīs in Najaf Ashraf, containing a few prophecies connected with their expulsion from that region and the restoration of the holy places to the descendants of the martyrs. The author probably is Abū al-Fatḥ Sulṭān Muḥammad Ṣafavī (see Or Ms 86). At the end there is given a copy of a letter complaining that the practice of grave-worship among the people was not in accordance with the laws of Islam. The letter, which is addressed to Sulṭān Fatḥ-'Alī...
Dates:
1222 A.H.; 1807 C.E.
Or Ms 186: روضته الصفاء Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ, 1006 A.H., 1598 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 186
Scope and Contents
A well-known general history in seven volumes, from the earliest times to the time of the author, Sayyid Muḥammad b. Burhān al-Dīn Khawand-Shāh (d. 903 A.H., 1498 C.E.). Most of the work was written by the author himself, but was completed by his grandson Ghiyās̱ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ḥāmid al-Dīn Khwand-Amīr (d. 942 A.H., 1535 C.E.). This manuscript includes volumes 1-3 of the work, each with an illuminated frontispiece.At the beginning of the manuscript there is a contents page in...
Dates:
1006 A.H.; 1598 C.E.
Or Ms 187: روضته الصفاء Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ, 999 A.H., 1591 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 187
Scope and Contents
A well-known general history in seven volumes, from the earliest times to the time of the author, Sayyid Muḥammad b. Burhān al-Dīn Khawand-Shāh (d. 903 A.H., 1498 C.E.). Most of the work was written by the author himself, but was completed by his grandson Ghiyās̱ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ḥāmid al-Dīn Khwand-Amīr (d. 942 A.H., 1535 C.E.). This manuscript includes volumes 4-5 of the work, each with an illuminated frontispiece. They feature in reverse order.For volumes 1-3 of this work,...
Dates:
999 A.H.; 1591 C.E.
Or Ms 188: روضته الصفاء Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ, 999 A.H., 1591 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 188
Scope and Contents
A well-known general history in seven volumes, from the earliest times to the time of the author, Sayyid Muḥammad b. Burhān al-Dīn Khawand-Shāh (d. 903 A.H., 1498 C.E.). Most of the work was written by the author himself, but was completed by his grandson Ghiyās̱ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ḥāmid al-Dīn Khwand-Amīr (d. 942 A.H., 1535 C.E.). This manuscript includes volumes 6-7 of the work, each with an illuminated frontispiece.For volumes 1-3 of this work, from the collection of the same...
Dates:
999 A.H.; 1591 C.E.