Maqamah
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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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.)
شرح مقامات الحریري Sharḥ Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī, undated
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 52
Scope and Contents
An anonymous commentary upon the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, transcribed at Lucknow.
Dates:
undated
مقامات البدیعي Maqāmāt al-Badī'ī, undated copy (original text composed 10th-11th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 49
Scope and Contents
A collection of forty maqāmahs (discourses) and three additional novelettes, compiled by Badī' al-Zamān b. Ḥusayn, better known as "al-Hamadānī" d. 398 A.H. 1008 C.E.
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 10th-11th cent. C.E.)
مقامات الحریري Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī, undated copy (original text composed 11th-12th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 50
Scope and Contents
These are the ever popular stories of Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim b. 'Alī al-Harīrī (d. 516 A.H., 1122 C.E.), who was the most famous prose-writer of his time.
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 11th-12th cent. C.E.)
مقامات الحریري Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī, 1225 A.H., 1809 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 51
Scope and Contents
This is vol. 1 of Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī. These are the ever popular stories of Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim b. 'Alī al-Harīrī (d. 516 A.H., 1122 C.E.), who was the most famous prose-writer of his time. This is a printed volume.
Dates:
1225 A.H.; 1809 C.E.