Iran -- History
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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
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...
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1222 A.H.; 1807 C.E.
عالم آرای عبّاسی 'Alam-ārā-yi 'Abbāsī, undated
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Identifier: Or Ms 84
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A complete copy of the history of the life and reign of the Safavid Shāh 'Abbās I, "'Abbās the Great" (1571-1629 C.E.).
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undated
فوائد صفویه Fawā'id-i Ṣafaviyyah, 1223 A.H., 1808 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 86
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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.
لب التواريخ Lubb al-tawārīkh, undated (original text compiled 16th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 239
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An abridgement of universal history, especially the history of Persia, from the earliest times to 948 A.H., 1541 C.E. It was compiled in 948 A.H., 1541 C.E., by Amīr Sayyid Yaḥyá b. ‘Abd al-Laṭīf al-Ḥusaynī al-Qazvīnī (d. 962 A.H., 1555 C.E.), and dedicated to Prince Abū al-Fatḥ Bahrām-Mirzā, a brother of Shāh-Tahmāsp Ṣafavī (d. 984 A.H., 1576 C.E.).
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undated (original text compiled 16th cent. C.E.)
نامهٔ شاه عباسِ ثانی Nāmah-yi Shāh-‘Abbās II, undated
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Identifier: Or Ms 241
Scope and Contents
A letter stated to have been sent by Shāh-‘Abbās II of Persia, after his conquest of Kandahar in 1058 A.H. (1648 C.E.), to Jahāngīr, emperor of India, with the reply of the letter included.A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) states: "This is evidently wrong, for ‘Abbās II, who ascended the throne, A.H. 1052 (A.D. 1642), was a contemporary of...
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undated
نظام التّواریخ Niẓam al-tāwārīkh, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 412
Scope and Contents
This is a valuable short history of Persia from the earliest times to 674 A.H. (1275-1276 C.E.), by Naṣir al-Dīn 'Abd-allāh b. 'Umar al-Bayḍāwī who purportedly died at Tabriz in 1319 C.E., although his death date is disputed, and who is also celebrated for his commentary upon the Qur'ān. The current work was composed in 674 A.H. (1275 C.E.).The present copy has 57 folios, is written in good Nasta'līq, and is gold-lined round the columns with headings in red. It appears to be by...
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)