Persian language--Grammar
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 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.)
رساله در علم عروض Risālah dar ‘ilm-i ‘Arūz̤, undated copy (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 358
Scope and Contents
A well-known treatise on Persian prosody by Mawlānā Sayfī of Bukhārā, also called ‘Arūz̤ī (d. 909 A.H., 1503 C.E.). According to the chronogram at the end, it was compiled in 896 A.H., 1490 C.E.
Dates:
undated copy (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
قواعد فارسی Qawā‘id-i Fārsī, undated copy (earliest version compiled 18th-19th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 359
Scope and Contents
A short treatise on grammar by Rawshan ‘Alī Anṣārī of Jawnpur (d. circa 1225 A.H., 1810 C.E.), who was a professor in the College at Fort William, Calcutta (Kolkata). In the introduction it is stated that the author compiled this work for his son Faz̤l ‘Alī.
Dates:
undated copy (earliest version compiled 18th-19th cent. C.E.)