Letter writing, Arabic
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 56: العجب العجاب فیما یفید الکتّاب al-'Ajab al-'ujāb fīmā yufīd al-kuttāb, 1229 A.H., 1813 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 56
Scope and Contents
A complete introduction to the art of letter-writing, being a collection of letters upon various subjects, compiled by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Anṣarī al-Yamanī al-Shirwānī, who died Calcutta in 1227 A.H. (1812 C.E.).
Dates:
1229 A.H.; 1813 C.E.
Or Ms 405: کتاب مناهج التّوصّل في مباهج التّرسّل Kitāb manāhij al-tawaṣṣul fī mabāhij al-tarassul, undated
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 405
Scope and Contents
An incomplete copy of the treatise on the Sufi styles of letter writing by ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad bin ‘Alī bin Aḥmad al-Ḥanafī al-Bisṭāmī (d. 858 A.H., 1454 C.E.).
Dates:
undated