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    Hazā kitāb-i Tārīkh-i Nigāristān
    تاريخ نگارستان / | Tārīkh-i Nigāristān | Title on page 2: Nigāristān     On the history of Iran.
    • Contributor: Ghaffārī, Ahmad Ibn Muhammad
    • Date: 1859

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    Majmūʻah-ʼi mufīd
    /     On Persian fables.
    • Contributor: Nizam-Ul-Deen, Munshi
    • Date: 1859-01-01

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    Kitāb Rawḍat al-jannah
    كتاب روضة الجنة | Garden of paradise     Biographies of both Sunni and Shiʻah Muslims.
    • Contributor: Merrick, James Lyman - Muḥammad Bāqir Ibn Zayn Al-ʻābidīn
    • Date: 185?

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    Majmūʻat al-ḥaqāyiq
    مجموعة الحقايق     Collection of facts about British India.
    • Date: 1860

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    Kitāb Tuḥfat al-Nāṣirīyah fī funūn al-adabīyah
    كتاب تحفة الناصرية في فنون الادبية | Hādhā Kitāb Tuḥfat al-Nāṣirīyah fī funūn al-adabīyah     Lithographed. Arabic poems with interlinear Persian version.
    • Contributor: Iṣfahānī, Abū Al-Qāsim Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1861

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    Dīvān-i Kashfī
    /     Lithographed. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Kashfī, Muḥammad Salāmat Allāh
    • Date: 1861-01-01

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    Kitāb-i mustaṭāb-i Sulṭānīyah
    / | Sulṭānīyah | کتاب مستطاب سلطانية /     "Ḥasb al-khvāhish ... Āqā Kalbʻalī tājir-i Yazdī bi-khaṭṭ-i ʼaqqal-i khalq Allāh Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-shahīr bi-ʼĀqā" Lithographed. With: [Unidentified Persian manuscript, by Muḥammad Raḥīm Khān]. [19th century]. In Persian. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009.
    • Contributor: Kirmānī, Muḥammad Karīm Khān
    • Date: 1861-01-01

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    Kitāb-i mustaṭāb Bahrām va Bihrūz
    / | کتاب مستطاب بهرام و بهروز /     Poems. Lithographed. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Vaqār Shīrāzī, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Shafī
    • Date: 1862-01-01

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    Maẓāhir al-anvār fī manāqib al-aʼimmah al-aṭhār
    مظاهر الانوار فى مناقب الأئمه الاطهار / | Maẓāhir al-anwār fī manāqib al-aʼimmah al-aṭhār     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Hidāyat, Riz̤ā Qulī Khān
    • Date: 1863

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    Inshā-yi dilkushā
    /     A collection of various letter samples for the students of Persian.
    • Contributor: Barīlvī, Sayyid Nis̲ār ʻalī Bukhārī
    • Date: 1863-01-01

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    Javāhirnāmah ... Mīr Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Manṣūr Shīrāzī
    جواهرنامه ... مير غياث الدين منصور شيرازي | Jawāhir nameh     Treatise on precious stones and minerals.
    • Contributor: Kunz, George Frederick - Ṣadr Al-Dīn Al-Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Ibn Manṣūr
    • Date: 1864

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    Tārīkh-i Qayṣar-i Rūm
    تاريخ قيصر روم /     History of Ottoman empire and its Sultans.
    • Contributor: Najjār, Ibrāhīm Ibn Khalīl
    • Date: 1864

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    Tārīkh-i Firishtah
    تاريخ فرشته /     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Firishtah, Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī
    • Date: 1864

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    Iqbālnāmah-i Jahāngīrī
    اقبالنامه جهانگيرى /     "A collection of oriental works published by the Asiatic Society of Bengal"--Added title page. Early imprint. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Mawlavī, Aḥmad ʻalī Aḥmad - Abd Al-Hai - Asiatic Society of Bengal - Muʻtamad Khān, Muḥammad Sharīf - Lees, W. Nassau (William Nassau)
    • Date: 1865
    • Resource: - 322 pages

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    ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt
    عجائب المخلوقات /     Lithographed. In Persian; translated from Arabic.
    • Contributor: Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad - Khvānsārī, Muḥammad Naṣīr
    • Date: 1866

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  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Silsilah-i shaykhīyah
    سلسله شيخيه /     Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Persian. Title from folio 3a. Pagination: 6 blank leaves; 1st work: fol. 1b-168a (15 lines); 3 blank leaves; 2nd work: fol. 172b-175a (12 lines) Autograph copy. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Paper: yellowish, cream color paper with visible watermark; black ink with rubrication and overlining…
    • Contributor: Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ʻalī Ibn Muḥammad Ṣādiq - Kirmānī, Muḥammad Karīm Khān
    • Date: 1866

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    Iskandarnāmah
    اسکندرنامه     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Niẓāmī Ganjavī
    • Date: 1866

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    Ikrām al-nās fī Tārīkh-i Āl-i Barmak dar ʻahd-i Banī ʻAbbās
    / | Tārīkh-i Barmakī | Tārīkh-i Āl-i Barmak dar ʻahd-i Banī ʻAbbās | اکرام الناس فى تاريخ آل برمک در عهد بنى عباس /     On Barmakid family, who ruled during Abbasids, 755-1258.
    • Contributor: Z̤iyāʼ Al-Dīn Baranī
    • Date: 1866-01-01

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  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Hāz̲ā kitāb-i Mus̲allas̲ah
    هذا کتاب مثلثه | Kitāb-i Mus̲allas̲ah | Mus̲allas̲ah     Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Written by Abī Turāb al-Sirḥānī. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Possibly written in northern Iran. Paper: tan colored glazed laid paper with horizontal chain line and obscured armorial watermark, and countermark G M ; black ink in Naskh; catchwords; lacuna from Folio 1-10 caused by worm damage at top of page, with no loss of text. Naskh;…
    • Contributor: Badīʻī Tabrīzī
    • Date: 1867

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    Huva Rubāʻīyāt Ḥakīm-i Khayyām
    هو رباعيات حكيم خيام | Rubāʻīyāt Ḥakīm-i Khayyām     Manuscript. Persian. Caption title on fol. 1a. Written by ʻAbbāsʻalī [illegible]. Gift of Amir Jafar and Parvindokt Hasheminejad, donated by their son, Mehdi Hasheminejad, item belonged to Amir Jafar Hasheminejad's collection and originated from Qajar era minister, Mehdi Lahooti, Badaye Negar's holdings. May 31, 2019. Written in Iran. Paper; coarse, unpolished, light greyish tan color commercial paper; black ink; catchwords. Nastaʻlīq; 10 lines in…
    • Contributor: Omar Khayyam
    • Date: 1867

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    Rawz̤at al-mujāhidīn
    روضت المجاهدين | Variant title: Mukhtārʹnāmah | Handwritten title on first page: Kitāb-i viqāyāt     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Vāʻiẓ Haravī, ʻaṭāʼ Allāh Ibn Ḥusām
    • Date: 1867

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    Akbarnāmah : muḥtavī-i vaqāʼiʻ-i salṭanat-i ʻarsh-i āshiyān Jalāl al-Dīn Akbar pādishāh-i Hindūstān jannatʹnishān navvar Allāh taʻālá marqadah
    اکبرنامه : محتوى وقائع سلطنت عرش آشيان جلال الدين اکبر پادشاه هندوستان جنتنشان نور الله تعالى مرقده /     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Abū Al-Faz̤l Ibn Mubārak
    • Date: 1867

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    Miftāḥ al-tavārīkh
    / | مفتاح التواريخ /     Lithographed. A collection of chronograms and historical observations on the dates of birth, death, etc., etc., of Muslim kings and other eminent men; also inscriptions and descriptions of ancient buildings; from Adam to A.H. 1265, i.e. 1848. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Beale, Thomas William
    • Date: 1867-01-01

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    Ḥayāt-i Afghānī
    / | حيات افغانى /     Includes detailed contents in English (p. 5-19)--at back. Lithograph. Includes index. In In Urdu, Persian, Pushto and English.
    • Contributor: Khān, Muḥammad Ḥayāt
    • Date: 1867-01-01

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    Sharḥ-i asrār
    شرح اسرار     Commentary on the Masnavī of Rūmī.
    • Contributor: Sabzavārī, Hādī Ibn Mahdī - Āshtiyānī, ʻalī Akbar
    • Date: 1868

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    Rūznāmah-yi Ḥakīm al-Mamālik
    روزنامهى حکيم الممالک | Rūznāmah-i Ḥakīm al-Mamālik | Rūznāmeh-yi Ḥakīm al-Mamālik | Rūznāmah-ʼi safar-i Khurāsān     In Persian. Untitled; also known as Safarnāmeh-yi Khurāsān. An account of the journey on which ʻAlī Naqī accompanied Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh. Listed in A catalogue of the Persian printed books in the British Museum as Rūz-nāmah by Nāṣir al-Dīn, shah of Persia. Lithographed.
    • Contributor: Nāṣir Al-Dīn Shāh - Ḥakīm Al-Mamālik, ʻalī Naqī Ibn Ismāʻīl
    • Date: 1869

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    Makhzan al-inshāʼ
    مخزن الانشاء     In Persian.
    • Contributor: Kalhur, Muḥammad Riz̤ā
    • Date: 1869

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    Rawz̤at al-anvār
    روضة الانوار / | Binder's title: Tārīkh-i rawz̤at al-anvār ʻAbbāsī     Lithographed. In Persian; includes Arabic citations.
    • Contributor: Sabzawārī, Muḥammad Bāqir Ibn Muḥammad Muʼmin
    • Date: 1869-01-01

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    Sih nas̲r-i Āṣafī Niẓām, al-maʻrūf bih Maḥbūb al-Kalām
    سه نثر آصفى نظام، المعروف به محبوب الکلام / | Maḥbūb al-Kalām     Lithographed. Poems. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Āṣafī Niẓāmī, Muḥammad ʻabd Al-Jabbār Khān
    • Date: 1870

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    Huva makhfī namānād ... Baḥr al-javāhir
    هو مخفى نماناد ... بحر الجواهر | Baḥr al-javāhir     In Persian; translated from Arabic.
    • Contributor: Harawī, Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf
    • Date: 1870

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    Mīrzā Bīdil maʻa Rubāʻiyāt-i ʻUmar Khayyām
    / | ميرزا بيدل مع رباعيات عمر خيام /     This book is an anthology of the poetry of Mirza ʻAbd al-Qadir Bidil (1644-1721) and Omar Khayyaam (1048-1131). The bulk of the work showcases the ghazals (lyric poems) of Bidil, and concludes with a selection of his rubaʻiyat (quatrains) and mukhammasat (singular, mukhammas, "five-some" or poems with five verses). The ghazals appear in a rectangular field around which runs a wide border containing material…
    • Contributor: Bīdil, ʻabd Al-Qādir - Omar Khayyam - Khvājah, Ghulām Rasūl
    • Date: 1870-01-01

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    Maṭāriḥ al-anẓār
    مطارح الانظار     Lithographed. In Persian. Near East 22/24
    • Contributor: Māzandarānī, Maḥmūd Ibn Kāẓim - ʻāmilī, Bahāʼ Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥusayn - Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir Ibn Muḥammad Taqī - Ibn Muljam, ʻabd Al-Wahhāb Ibn ʻabd Al-Raḥmān - Shushtarī, Nūr Allāh Ibn ʻabd Allāh - Nādir Māzandarānī, Asad Allāh Ibn ʻabd Al-Ghaffār - Naʻmat K̲h̲ān-I-ʻālī - Milī, Bahāʼ Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥusayn
    • Date: 1870-01-01

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    Javāhir al-īqān
    جواهر الايقان | Jawāhir al-īqān | Caption title: Hāz̲ā kitāb Javāhir al-īqān va sarmāyah-ʼi īmān | Title on unnumbered introductory page: Sarmāyah-ʼi īmān va javāhir-i īqān     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Darbandī, Āghā Ibn ʻābidīn
    • Date: 1871

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    Khizānah-i ʻāmirah
    خزانه عامره / | Khazānah-i ʻāmirah     In Persian. Lithographed. LC copy defective: Missing pages 459-462.
    • Contributor: Āzād Bilgrāmī, Ghulām ʻalī Ibn Nūḥ
    • Date: 1871

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  • Newspaper
    Īrān [newspaper] no. 1- Muharram 1288- [1871- In Persian. Description based on: no. 963 (31 Ūt [August] 1899); title from masthead. Latest issue consulted: no. 977 (27 Mih [May] 1900).
    • Date: 1871

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    Sāqīʹnāmah-i Ẓuhūrī
    ساقىنامه ظهورى /     Poems. Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Ẓuhūrī, Nūr Al-Dīn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1871

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    Fatḥ al-aqfāl al-musammá bih Tuḥfat al-aṭfāl
    / | Tuḥfat al-aṭfāl | فتح الاقفال المسمى به تحفة الاطفال /     On how to read and recite the Qurʹān.
    • Contributor: Nīk Muḥammad - Jamzūrī, Sulaymān Ibn Ḥusayn
    • Date: 1871-01-01

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    Jawhar al-z̲āt
    جوهر الذات /     Poems. Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: ʻaṭṭār, Farīd Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1872

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    Qand-i Pārsī
    قند پارسى /     Cover title. Poems. LC copy imperfect: Pages 117-118 are missing; page 2 damaged with loss of text. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Nassāk̲h̲, ʻabdulg̲h̲afūr
    • Date: 1872

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    Dastān-i Bahrām Gūr va ḥusn-i Bānū Parīzād
    دستان بهرام گور و حسن بانو پريزاد | Dastān-i Bahrām Gūr     Prose adaptation of the legend of Bahrām Gūr from Firdawsī's Shāhnāmah.
    • Contributor: Firdawsī
    • Date: 1873

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    Āʼīnah-ʼi ḥusn
    / | yīnah-ʼi ḥusn | آئينۀ حسن / | Āyīnah-ʼi ḥusn     On the characteristics of beauty in poetic form.
    • Contributor: Bilgrāmī, Muḥammad Aḥsan
    • Date: 1873-01-01

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    Ghāyat al-shuʻūr bi-ḥujaj al-Ḥajj al-mabrūr
    / | ujaj al-Ḥajj | غاية الشعور بحجج الحج المبرور / | Ḥujaj al-Ḥajj     Written in India by an unknown author in the final decades of the 19th century, Ghāyat al-shuʻūr bi-ḥujaj al-ḥajj al-mabrūr (The utmost knowledge of the arguments for the blessed Hajj) describes the various observances associated with the Hajj pilgrimage. The introduction and the text are written in Arabic, but the main text is in Persian, as are two appended texts (by a different author),…
    • Contributor: Muntaẓir, Munavvar Ḥusayn
    • Date: 1873-01-01

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    Shikūfah-i Khusravī
    شكوفه خسروى | Shigūfah-i Khusravī     Lithographed. Poems. LC's copy is imperfect: Pages 154-155 are missing. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Kalb ʻalī K̲h̲ān
    • Date: 1873-01-01

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    Badāʼiʻ-i manẓūm
    بدائع منظوم /     On Islamic rituals; commentary in margins by Ilāhī Bakhsh Fayḍʹābādī.
    • Contributor: Fayḍʹābādī, Ilāhī Bakhsh - Hindī, ʻalī Riz̤ā
    • Date: 1873-01-01

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  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    [Calligrapher's sample book.] Calligrapher's sample book.
    • Contributor: Ḥusaynī, Ḥasanʻalī
    • Date: 1874

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    Huva al-kitāb al-mawsūm bi-Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb
    هو الکتاب الموسوم بخلاصة الحساب / | Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb     Caption title. Lithographed. In Persian. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009.
    • Contributor: ʻāmilī, Bahāʼ Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥusayn
    • Date: 1874

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    Mujarrabāt-i Akbarī-i Fārsī
    / | مجربات اکبرى، فارسى /     On therapeutics, pharmacopoeias, Arab Medicine.
    • Contributor: Shāh Arzānī, Muḥammad Akbar Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1874-01-01

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    Anvār-i suhaylī
    انوار سهىلى     Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī's ornate Persian version of the Kalīlah va Dimnah, animal fables that have their origin in the Panchatantra and other Indian sources.
    • Contributor: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ
    • Date: 1875

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    Haz̲ā al-kitāb al-musammá bi-Manqūl al-Riz̤āʼī
    هذا الکتاب المسمى بمنقول الرضائى / | Manqūl al-Riz̤āʼī | Manqūl al-Riz̤āyī     Islam and Judaism; Judaism controversial literature.
    • Contributor: Ḥusaynī, ʻalī Ibn Al-Ḥusayn - Yazdī, Muḥammad Riz̤ā Jadīd Al-Islām
    • Date: 1875

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    Tārīkh-i jahānkushā-yi Nādirī
    / | Tārīkh-i jahāngushā-yi Nādirī | تاريخ جهانکشاى نادرى /     Historical study of Iran and Afghanistan during the reign of Nādir Shāh, 1688-1747. Tārīkh-i jahānkushā-yi Nādirī (The history of the world-conquering Nāder) is a historical study of Iran and Afghanistan during the reign of Nāder Shah (1736-47), written by a contemporary. Nāder was born in 1688 into a humble pastoral family. He established his reputation as a skilled military commander in fighting with Afghan…
    • Contributor: Nūr Al-Dīn Ibn Jīvā Khān - Ibrāhīm Ibn Nūr Muḥammad - Mahdī Khān Astarābādī
    • Date: 1875-01-01

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    Yah kitāb-i lājavāb nuskhah-i kāmyāb musammá bih Ṣubḥ-i Ṣādiq
    / | ubḥ-i Ṣādiq | يه کتاب لاجواب نسخه کامياب مسمى به صبح صادق / | Ṣubḥ-i Ṣādiq     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Akhtar, Muḥammad Ṣādiq
    • Date: 1875-01-01

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    Lillāh al-ḥamd va-al-minnah kih nuskhah-ʼi mutabarrikah al-mawsūm bi-Tuḥfat al-ʻulamāʼ
    لله الحمد والمنه که نسخۀ متبرکه الموسوم بتحفة العلماء / | /     Tuḥfat al-ʻulamā' (An offering for religious scholars) is ostensibly a tract addressed to the ʻulamā' (religious scholars) of Afghanistan, asking them to actively discourage the suspicion held by their followers toward things foreign. It was written by order of the Afghan ruler Sher Ali Khan (reigned 1863-66 and 1868-79). Little is known of the author, ʻAbd al-Qadir Khan, although he is identified as a…
    • Contributor: Khān, ʻabd Al-Qādir
    • Date: 1875-01-01

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    Kitāb-i gulshan
    کتاب گلشن / | Gulshan     Lithographed. LC copy defective: page 167 is missing In Persian; citations in Arabic.
    • Contributor: Kirmānī, Muḥammad Raḥīm Khān
    • Date: 1876

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    Kitāb Javāmiʻ al-aḥkām
    كتاب جوامع الاحكام / | /     Treatise on astrology.
    • Contributor: Bayhaqī, ʻalī Ibn Zayd
    • Date: 1876

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    Fihrist-i S̲̄imār al-tankīt va Z̤āllat al-nāshid al-gharīb
    فهرست ث̄مار التنکيت و ضالت الناشد الغريب / | S̲̄imār al-tankīt fī sharḥ abyāt al-tatbīt ; Z̤āllat al-nāshid al-gharīb min Bushrá al-kaʼīb bi-liqāʼ al-ḥabīb | Z̤āllat al-nāshid al-gharīb min bushrá al-kaʼīb bi-liqāʼ al-ḥabīb | Title of 2nd work from contents page: Ḍāllat al-nāshid al-kaʼīb fī sharḥ al-manẓūm al-musammá bi-Taʼnīs al-gharīb     Lithographed. With: Manhaj al-vuṣūl ilá iṣṭilāḥ aḥādīth al-rasūl / talʼīf Muḥammad Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān. [Bhopal] : [publisher not identified], 1292 [1875]. Bound together subsequent to publication. In Persian with passages in Arabic.
    • Contributor: Muḥammad Ṣiddīq Ḥasan
    • Date: 1876

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    Qurʼān bā tarjumah-i Fārsī Manuscript. Arabic and Persian; colophon in Turkish (Arabic script). Title from container. Scribe not identified. Probably written in Iran. Paper; cream color paper with no visible watermarks; elaborate unwans on fol. 1b and 2a with text enclosed in a wide ruled border of gold red and green; remainder of text enclosed in ruled border in gold black and red; interlinear Persian translation in red…
    • Date: 1877

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    [Anonymous Islamic treatise on creation in Persian] Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by Mīrzā Muḥammad Shīrāzī. Gift of Amir Jafar and Parvindokt Hasheminejad, donated by their son, Mehdi Hasheminejad, item belonged to Amir Jafar Hasheminejad's collection and originated from Qajar era minister, Mehdi Lahooti, Badaye Negar's holdings. May 31, 2019. Written in Iran. Paper; polished, cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords. Naskh;…
    • Date: 1877

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    Ganjīnah-ʼi Sarvarī, maʻrūf bi-ism-i tārīkhī-i Ganj-i tārīkh
    گنجينه سرورى، معروف باسم تاريخى گنج تاريخ / | Ganj-i tārīkh     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Sarvar Lāhaurī, G̲h̲ulām
    • Date: 1877

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    Majmaʻ al-fuṣaḥā
    مجمع الفصحا     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Hidāyat, Riz̤ā Qulī Khān
    • Date: 1878

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    Makhzan al-ʻulūm
    مخزن العلوم     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Brij Mōhan
    • Date: 1878-01-01

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    Sikandarʹnāmah
    / | Tārīkh-i kārnāmahʹhā-yi Sikandar | سکندرنامه /     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Niẓāmī Ganjavī - Muḥammad Hādī ʻalī
    • Date: 1878-01-01

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    Ruqʻāt-i ʻĀlamgīrī-i muḥashshá
    / | رقعات عالمگيرى محشى /     Letters written by the Mughal Emperor to his sons, daughter, friends and ministers, originally published in 1875 in Lahore. This lithographic book, published in 1875 in Lahore, present-day Pakistan, is a volume of letters written by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1618-1707, reigned 1658-1707) to his sons, daughter, friends, and ministers. It also includes jottings, as in an occasional journal, on events and other things…
    • Contributor: Aurangzeb - ʻalī, Sayyid Muḥammad - Alī, Sayyid Muḥammad
    • Date: 1878-01-01

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    Nasabʹnāmah-i kalān maʻahu bayān-i fayz̤ʹnishān-i ḥaz̤rāt-i chahārdah khānvādah va bayān-i haftād va dū millat
    نسبنامه کلان معه بيان فيضنشان حضرات چهارده خانواده و بيان هفتاد و دو ملت / | Haftād va dū millat     Genealogical study from the Adam (Biblical figure) to Prophet Muḥammad, -632 and different Muslim saints.
    • Contributor: Z̤iyāʼ Allāh, Shāh
    • Date: 1879

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    Kitāb al-Kashkūl
    کتاب الکشکول     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: ʻāmilī, Bahāʼ Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥusayn
    • Date: 1879

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    Burhān-i kalām-i Mūsá maʻ tarjumah-i Urdū, Bayān-i marām-i Aqṣá
    برهان کلام موسى مع ترجمه اردو، بيان مرام اقصى / | Bayān-i marām-i Aqṣá     Lithographed. With: Tarjumah-i Ḥadīs̲ al-bāriḥah / muʼallifahu Mawlānā Mawlavī ʻAbd Allāh. Lāhūr : Maṭbaʻ-i Muḥammadī, 1296 [1879]. Bound together subsequent to publication. In Urdu and Arabic; translated from Arabic.
    • Contributor: Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad Ibn ʻabd Al-Ḥalīm - Malvālī, Raḥīm Bakhsh
    • Date: 1879

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    Kitāb-i mustaṭāb-i nāmah-ʼi dānishvarān-i Nāṣirī va sālnāmah-ʼi hāz̲ihi al-sanah
    کتاب مستطاب نامۀ دانشوران ناصرى و سالنامۀ هذه السنه | Nāmah-ʼi dānishvarān-i Nāṣirī va sālnāmah-ʼi hāz̲ihi al-sanah     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Date: 1879

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    Ḥadīqat al-aqālīm
    / | حديقت الاقاليم /     Geographical treatise focusing on Afghanistan, Iran and India during late 18th and first half of 19th century. Hadíkatu-l Akálím (An enclosed garden of the climes) is a compilation of geographic and historical information by Murtaz̤á Ḥusayn Bilgrāmī (circa 1729-95), also known as Sheikh Allahyar Usmani. Bilgrāmī was employed as munshi (secretary) to Captain Jonathan Scott, Persian secretary to Warren Hastings (1732-1818), the first British…
    • Contributor: Bilgrāmī, Murtaz̤á Ḥusayn
    • Date: 1879-01-01

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    Sharḥ-i panjruqʻah
    / | Sharḥ-i panj ruqʻah | شرح پنجرقعه /     Lithograph. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Vāz̤iḥ, Mīrzā Irādat Khān - Ṣahbāʼī, Imām Bak̲h̲sh - Ahbāʼī, Imām Bak̲h̲sh
    • Date: 1879-01-01

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    Muʻallim al-aṭfāl
    معلم الاطفال     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Ḥusaynʹzādah, Aḥmad
    • Date: 1880

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    Qāfʹnāmah : Qāfnāmah-ʼi s̲ānī. Munājāt. Chirāghʹnāmah. Ashʻār-i ghayr-i manqūṭ
    /     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Ghulām Sarvar
    • Date: 1880-01-01

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    Kullīyāt-i Jāmī
    کليات جامى | Dīvān-i Jāmī     Poems. Lithographed. Spine title: Dīvān-i Jāmī. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Jāmī
    • Date: 1881

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    Ātishkadah-i Āz̲ar
    آتشکده آذر     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Āz̲ar Baygdilī, Luṭf ʻalī Ibn Āqā Khān
    • Date: 1881

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    Dīvān-i ʻĀyishah
    /     Collected works of a noted Afghan poetess during the reign of ʻAbdurraḥmān K̲h̲ān, Amīr of Afghanistan, d. 1901. This work is a lithographic print, published in Kabul, of the collected poems of 'Āyisha Durrānī, an Afghan poetess from the Durrani family, who was active in the second half of the 19th century. The poems include qasidas (a lyric form) and ghazals (a metrical form…
    • Contributor: Durrānī, ʻāyishah Afghān
    • Date: 1881-01-01

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    Anvār al-raml
    انوار الرمل     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Shīrvānī, ʻabd Al-Ghanī
    • Date: 1881-01-01

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    Nafāyis al-funūn
    / | Haz̲ā kitāb-i mustaṭāb-i Nafāyis al-funūn | ilismāt va mujarrabāt-i Sakkākī | نفايس الفنون / | Ṭilismāt va mujarrabāt-i Sakkākī     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Sakkākī, Yūsuf Ibn Abī Bakr
    • Date: 1881-01-01

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    Kitāb-i musammá bi-tārīkh-i Sulṭānī
    / | Tārīkh-i Sulṭānī | Kitāb musammá bi-tārīkh-i Sulṭānī | کتاب مسمى بتاريخ سلطانى /     Historical study of the Afghan rulers from the beginning of Islam. Tārīkh-i Sulṭānī (The Sulṭānī history) is a historical study of the Afghan people and the rulers of Afghanistan from the beginnings of Islam to the mid-19th century. The work was published as a lithographic print in Bombay (present-day Mumbai) in 1881. This copy has been rebound, with "Ṣaḥāfī Sulṭān Muḥammad, Kabul" gold-stamped on…
    • Contributor: Durrānī, Sulṭān Muḥammad Khān Ibn Mūsá Khān
    • Date: 1881-01-01

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    [ʻIqd-i-gul] Lithograph. "Notes on Iqd-i-gul"-- page 1, 1st group, and "Notes on Iqd-i manzum"--page 25, 1st group; "Entrance examination questions of the Calcutta University"--p. 1, 2nd group. In Persian; some in English.
    • Contributor: Saʻdī
    • Date: 1882

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    Dīvānīkih paykar-i nuṭq rā jān ast ... dīvān-i bī nuqāṭ-i Jāmī
    Dīvān-i bī nuqāṭ-i Jāmī     Persian poems composed of letters without diacritic points; edited by Kāmtā Parsād, called Nādān.
    • Contributor: Jāmī - Parsād, Kāmtā
    • Date: 1882-01-01

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    Kitāb-i mubārak Durrah-i Najafīyah
    کتاب مبارک دره نجفيه | Durrah-i Najafīyah     In Persian.
    • Contributor: Bahārī Al-Hamadānī, Muḥammad Bāqir
    • Date: 1883

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    [Collection of unidentified poems compiled into a notebook] Collection of various poems.
    • Date: 1883

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    Maktūbāt-i Kalīmī
    مکتوبات کليمى /     Lithographed. LC copy defective: Pages 107-108 are missing. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Kalīmī, Muḥammad Qāsim ʻalī - Shāhʹjahānʹābādī Chishtī, Kalīm Allāh
    • Date: 1883

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    Pandnāmah-i dunyā va dīn : khāṭirat-i Amīr ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, bi-qalam-i khūdish
    پندنامه دنيا و دين : خاطرات امير عبد الرحمان، بقلم خودش     This work is an autobiography of 'Abd al-Raḥmān Khān, emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901. It is styled, however, as a manual of advice and a mirror for princes. It is divided into 16 chapters, which are arranged according to the topics on which the author provides advice and worthy examples, in this case drawn from his own conduct. Subdivision by topic of…
    • Contributor: ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Khān - Abd Al-Raḥmān Khān
    • Date: 1883-01-01

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    Mīzān al-ṭibb
    / | ميزان الطب /     Mīzān al-ṭibb (The measure of medicine) is a popular medical work written by Muhammad Akbar Arzani (died 1772). Scholars differ as to whether Arzani was born in Persia or in India, but he is generally considered the first physician of the Mughal Empire to systematically translate Arabic medical works into Persian. His medical texts enjoyed great popularity in India and Persia and served as…
    • Contributor: Shāh Arzānī, Muḥammad Akbar Ibn Muḥammad - Muḥammad Badr Al-Dīn Ibn Jamāl Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1883-01-01

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    Sharḥ-i Zulaykhā
    /     A commentary on ʻAbdurraḥmān Jāmī's Persian poem Yūsuf va Zulaykhā, which deals with sufi ideas presented through a romance based on the Quranic story of the prophet Joseph and the Pharaoh's wife.
    • Contributor: Shāh, Muḥammad
    • Date: 1884-01-01

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    Inshā-yi Jāmī Collection of writings of a 14th century classical Persian poet from Iran, with extensive explanatory notes. This lithographic print is a literary essay by Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān Jāmī (1414-92), a great Persian poet, scholar, and mystic, who lived most of his life in Herat (present-day Afghanistan). The work is exceptional for being written in prose at a time when most fine Persian writing…
    • Contributor: Jāmī
    • Date: 1884-01-01

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    Dīvān-i Bīdil
    ديوان بيدل /     Poems. Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Bīdil, ʻabd Al-Qādir
    • Date: 1884-01-01

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    Dīvān-i Bīdil
    ديوان بيدل     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Bīdil, ʻabd Al-Qādir
    • Date: 1885

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    Naṣāyiḥ al-ṣibyān
    نصايح الصبيان /     Versified advices for different aspects of life . Llithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: ʻazīzī, Mīr Sayf Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1885

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    Iʻtiqādnāmah
    اعتقادنامه /     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Naqshabandī, Khālid Ibn Aḥmad - ʻalāʼ Al-Dīn Khurāsānī - Saʻdī - Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī - Bukhārī, Sharaf Al-Dīn - ʻalī, Sharaf - ʻalī Bhāʼī
    • Date: 1886

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    Dīvān-i ʻUrfī Shīrāzī
    ديوان عرفى شيرازى /     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: ʻurfī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad
    • Date: 1886

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    Dīvān-i Khvājah Ḥāfiẓ, ʻalayhi al-raḥmah
    دىوان خواجه حافظ، علىه الرحمه     Caption title. Lithographed. Poems. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Ḥāfiẓ
    • Date: 1886

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    Īn chand saṭrīst kih ḥaz̤rat-i bādishāh-i Islām panāh-i amīr ibn al-amīr ibn al-amīr Amīr ʻAbd al-Raḥman Khān adāma Allāh salṭanatahu az barā-yi qawm-i khūd pīshīnʹgūʼī farmūdah kih az vāridāt-i zamānah mustaẓhar bāshand …
    Naṣāyiḥʹnāmchah | Naṣāyiḥ nāmchah | اين چند سطريست که حضرت بادشاه اسلام پناه امير بن الامير بن الامير امير عبد الرحمن خان ادام الله سلطنته از براى قوم خود پيشينگوئى فرموده که از واردات زمانه مستظهر باشند مسمى به نصايحنامچه     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Khān - Abd Al-Raḥmān Khān
    • Date: 1886-01-01

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    Miṣdāq al-raml
    / | Miṣdāq al-ramal | مصداق الرمل /     Treatise on geomancy, the science of foretelling the future from lines and diagrams drawn on the ground.
    • Contributor: Lāhūrī, Muḥammad ʻaṭā Rammāl
    • Date: 1886-01-01

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    Ẓafarnāmah
    ظفرنامه /     Ẓafarnāmah (Book of victory) by ʻAli Yazdi (circa 1390-1454) is a biographical work dealing with the life of the central Asian conqueror Timur (reigned 1370-1405). Completed in around 1424, Yazdi's work is based in part on an earlier work, also entitled Ẓafarnāmah, by Nizam al-Din ʻAli Shami (who completed his work in 1404). A poet and scholar, Yazdi wrote works on numerology, astrolabes, and…
    • Contributor: Sharaf Al-Dīn ʻalī Yazdī - Ilahdād, Muḥammad
    • Date: 1887

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    Kitāb-i musṭatāb-i taz̲kirah mawsūm bih Riyāz̤ al-ʻārifīn
    کتاب مسطتاب تذکره موسوم به رياض العارفين | Riyāz̤ al-ʻārifīn | Title on colophon: Taz̲kirah lil-ʻārifīn va tabṣirah lil-sālikīn va mawsūm bi-Riyāz̤ al-ʻārifīn     In Persian. Lithographed text.
    • Contributor: Hidāyat, Riz̤ā Qulī Khān
    • Date: 1887

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    Mīzak-i jangī
    / | ميزک جنگى /     On military and war music with special reference to Afghanistan.
    • Contributor: ʻazīzī, Mīr Sayf Al-Dīn - Azīzī, Mīr Sayf Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1887-01-01

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    Dastūr al-ṣubyān
    / | Dastūr al-ṣibyān | دستور الصبيان /     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Rāy, Nūndah
    • Date: 1887-01-01

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    Āmadanʹnāmah
    / | آمدننامه /     In Perian and Urdu.
    • Contributor: ʻalī Bhāʼī - Alī, Sharaf - Alī Bhāʼī - ʻalī, Sharaf
    • Date: 1887-01-01

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    Risālah-ʼi Khiradʹnāmah-ʼi Amīrī
    رسالۀ خردنامۀ اميرى / | Khiradʹnāmah-ʼi Amīrī     Poems written in praise of ʻAbdurraḥmān K̲h̲ān̲, the Amir of Afghanistan. Risālah-ʼi Khiradʹnāmah-ʼi Amīrī (Epistle of princely wisdom) is a short work written in the form of a commentary on what apparently are the musings of the Afghan ruler 'Abd al-Rahman Khan (reigned 1880-1901) on the topic of 'aql (intellect). 'Abd al-Rahman's observations concern both the variability in the allocation of reason and intellect…
    • Contributor: Qandahārī, ʻabd Al-Raʼūf
    • Date: 1888

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    Kifāyah-i Manṣūrī va Risālah-i chūb-i Chīnī
    Risālah-i chūb-i Chīnī | کفاىه منصورى و رساله چوب چىنى     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Manṣūr Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad
    • Date: 1888-01-01

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    Haz̲ā kulliyāt -i ʻārif-i maʻārif sukhandānī qudwat al-ʻurafaʼ zubdat al-udabāʼ Khallāq al-maʻānī Kamāl al-Dīn Ismaʻīl Iṣfahānī
    هذا کلىات عارف معارف سخندانى قدوة العرفاء زبدة الادباء خلاق المعانى کمال الدىن اسمعىل اصفهانى | Kulliyāt -i ʻārif-i maʻārif sukhandānī qudwat al-ʻurafaʼ zubdat al-udabāʼ Khallāq al-maʻānī Kamāl al-Dīn Ismaʻīl Iṣfahānī | Khallāq al-maʻānī | Dīvān-i Khallāq al-Maʻānī     Lithographed.
    • Contributor: Kashkūl Shīrāzī, Mīr Muḥammad ʻalī - Kamāl Al-Dīn Ismāʻīl Iṣfahānī
    • Date: 1889

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    Risālah-i nājiyah
    رساله ناجيه / | /     On the significance of Jihād (holy war) in the Koran and Hadith.
    • Contributor: ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Khān - Abd Al-Raḥmān Khān
    • Date: 1889-01-01

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    Mas̲navī-i mayʹrang
    مثنوى ميرنگ / | Mas̲navī-i mīrang     Sufi Persian poems.
    • Contributor: Bakhtiyār Kākī, Muḥammad Ibn Kamāl Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1889-01-01

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    Ghazaliyāt-i Khallāq al-Maʻānī
    غزليات خلاق المعانى / | Title from colophon: Qiṭaʻāt-i Khallāq al-Maʻānī Mawlānā Kamāl Ismāʻīl Iṣfahānī | Khallāq al-Maʻānī | Dīvān-i Kamāl Ismāʻīl | Kullīyāt-i Kamāl Ismāʻīl     Lithographed. LC copy is defective: Title page is missing In Persian.
    • Contributor: Kamāl Al-Dīn Ismāʻīl Iṣfahānī
    • Date: 1890

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    Tarjumān al-lughah
    ترجمان اللغة | Colophon title: Tarjamat al-lughah | Colophon title: Sharḥ-i Qāmūs     Title embedded in text on title page. Persian translation of his al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, by Muḥammad Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad Shafīʻ Qazwīnī. Lithographed. "Īn kitāb-i mustaṭāb-i Tarjamat al-lughah al-musammá bi- Sharḥ-i Qāmūs"--Colophon.
    • Contributor: Qazwīnī, Muḥammad Yaḥyá Ibn Al-Shafī - Fīrūzābādī, Muḥammad Ibn Yaʻqūb
    • Date: 1890

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    Mīzān al-ṭibb
    ميزان الطب     Basic treatise on traditional Arab medicine.
    • Contributor: Shāh Arzānī, Muḥammad Akbar Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1890

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    Bāburnāmah-i mawsūm bih Tūzak-i Bāburī va Futūḥāt-i Bāburī
    بابرنامه موسوم به توزک بابرى و فتوحات بابرى | Tūzak-i Bāburī | Futūḥāt-i Bāburī     Memoirs of Babur, 1483-1530, the Mogul emperor of Hindustan. This book is a lithograph edition of the Persian translation of Bāburnāmah (Memoirs of Babur), the autobiography of Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Bāburshāh (1483-1530), the first Mughal emperor of India. Bāburnāmah originally was written in Chagatai Turkish and was translated into Persian during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar. The translation was undertaken by Bairam…
    • Contributor: Babur
    • Date: 1890

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    Sikandarnāmah
    سکندرنامه     With marginal commentary in Persian. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Niẓāmī Ganjavī
    • Date: 1890

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    Sulṭānʹnāmah
    سلطاننامه /     In Persian.
    • Contributor: Shīrvānī, ʻabbās Khān - Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Malik Al-Kitāb
    • Date: 1890

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    Kitāb-i jang-i Rūm va Rūs
    Jang-i Rūm va Rūs | Pand va ʻibrat | Tārīkh-i jang mā bayn-i Rūm va Rūs     Persian translation of an unknown work on the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.
    • Date: 1890-01-01

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    Sharḥ-i Gulistān-i Fārsī
    شرح گلستان فارسى /     Commentary of Gulistān, a classical Persian work by Saʻdī.
    • Contributor: Valī
    • Date: 1890-01-01

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    Huva huva al-mustaʻān al-minnah lillāh kih bi-ḥusn-i tawfīq-i janāb-i bārī Qānūn-i kārguz̲ārī dar muʻāmalāt-i ḥukūmatī va taʻayyun-i jarāyim va siyāsāt kih az ḥuz̤ūr-i maʻdalat-i dastūr-i ḥaz̤rat-i Shahriyārī adāma Allāh mulkah, jihat ihtidā-yi …
    Qānūn-i kārguz̲ārī dar muʻāmalāt-i ḥukūmatī va taʻayyun-i jarāyim va siyāsāt kih az ḥuz̤ūr-i maʻdalat-i dastūr-i ḥaz̤rat-i Shahriyārī adāma Allāh mulkah | هو هو المستعان المنة لله که بحسن توفيق جناب بارى قانون کارگذارى در معاملات حکومتى و تعين جرايم و سياسات که از حضور معدلت دستور حضرت شهريارى ادام الله ملکه، جهة اهتداى حکام و رفاه طبقات انام در سنه ايت ايل ترکى، سال يکهزار و سه صد و سه مطابق سال هفتم جلوس ميمنت مانوس تقرير پذيرفته بود در شهر کابل، ربيع الثانى سنه ١٣٠٩ بمطبع دار السلطنه طبع گرديد     Laws pertaining to the responsibilities of judges according to Islam in different criminal cases; the first ever law book published in Afghanistan. Qānūn-i kārguz̲ārī dar muʻāmalāt-i ḥukūmatī wa taʻayyun-i jarāyim wa siyāsāt (Law pertaining to government procedures and the imposition of penalties and redresses) is the earliest law manual produced in Afghanistan. The document dates from 1303 AH (1885-86), and was issued by the…
    • Contributor: Afghanistan
    • Date: 1891-01-01

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    Māyah-ʼi Dānish-i ʻAlāʼī mashhūr bi-Ḥikmat al-ʻAlāy
    / | ikmat al-ʻAlāʼī | ikmat al-ʻAlāyī | مايۀ دانش علائى مشهور بحکمة العلاي / | Ḥikmat al-ʻAlāʼī | Ḥikmat al-ʻAlāyī     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Avicenna - Asad Allāh, Sayyid
    • Date: 1891-01-01

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    ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt
    عجائب أل-مخلوقات     Lithographed. In Persian; translated from Arabic.
    • Contributor: Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1892

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    Iskandarnāmah
    اسکندرنامه     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Niẓāmī Ganjavī
    • Date: 1892

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    Qaṣāʼid-i fuyūz̤-i ʻavāʼid
    / | Kitāb-i kullīyāt-i ḥaz̤rat-i Ṭarzī | Qaṣāʼid fuyūḍ ʻawāʼid | قصائد فيوض عوائد /     This work is a collection of poems in the qaṣīda (ode) form by Ghulām Muḥammad Khān (1830-1900), a prominent Pashto Afghan intellectual of the 19th century. Known by his pen name Ṭarzī (the Stylist), he was a member of the important Bārakzay tribe of Kandahār. In 1882 Ghulām Muḥammad Khān fell into disgrace with the Afghan ruler Amir ʻAbd-al-Raḥmān (reigned 1880-1901) and was expelled…
    • Contributor: Arzī, Ghulām Muḥammad - Ṭarzī, Ghulām Muḥammad
    • Date: 1892-01-01

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    Dībāchah-i dīvānʹsarā sar ʻunvān dar z̲ikr-i shammah-ʼi az aḥvāl-i sarʹdaftar-i ahl-i zabān sukhanʹfahm nuktahʹdān Jināb-i Ṭarzī Ṣāḥib-i Afghān ṭūl ʻumruh
    / | Kitāb-i kullīyāt-i ḥaz̤rat-i Ṭarzī | ديباچه ديوانسرا سر عنوان در ذکر شمۀ از احوال سردفتر اهل زبان سخنفهم نکتهدان جناب طرزى صاحب افغان طول عمره /     This work is a compendium of the compositions (primarily in verse) of Ghulām Muḥammad Khān (1830-1900), a prominent Pashto Afghan intellectual of the 19th century. Known by his pen name Ṭarzī (the Stylist), Ghulām Muḥammad Khān was a member of the important Bārakzay tribe of Kandahār. The dībācha (introduction) of this work includes an account of Ghulām Muḥammad Khān and his family's exile from…
    • Contributor: Anvar Khān, Muḥammad - Arzī, Ghulām Muḥammad - Zamān, Muḥammad - Ṭarzī, Ghulām Muḥammad - Ṭarzī, Asmā Rasmīyah - Arzī, Asmā Rasmīyah
    • Date: 1892-01-01

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    Anīs al-ʻāshiqīn
    انيس العاشقين /     Critical study on Sufi poetry.
    • Contributor: ʻabd Al-Aḥad, Muḥammad - Mānakʹpūrī, Ḥusām Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1893

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    Risālah-i mawʻiẓah
    / | رساله موعظه /     Treatise recounting the accomplishments of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Khān, Amir of Afghanistan with special reference to civil rights and citizenship in Afghanistan.
    • Contributor: Muḥammadzāʼī, Gul Muḥammad
    • Date: 1893-01-01

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    Kullīyāt-i Ḥazīn
    /     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Muḥammad ʻalī Ḥazīn
    • Date: 1893-01-01

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    Majmūʻah-ʼi Ṭilism-i Iskandar-i Z̲ū al-Qarnayn : mushtamilbar funūn-i panjgānah-i kīmīyā, va sīmīyā, va hīmīyā, va rīmīyā, va līmīyā
    / | ilism-i Iskandar-i Z̲ū al-Qarnayn | مجموعۀ طلسم اسکندر ذو القرنين : مشتملبر فنون پنجگانه کيميا، و سيميا، و هيميا، و ريميا، و ليميا / | Ṭilism-i Iskandar-i Z̲ū al-Qarnayn     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Qays, Muḥammad ʻus̲mān
    • Date: 1893-01-01

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    Asās al-quz̤āt
    / | اساس القضات /     Asās al-Quz̤āt (The basis for judges) is a lithographic book on Islamic jurisprudence, published in the late 19th century by the royal publishing house in Kabul. It was intended as a source for judges charged with applying the law on the basis of Islamic jurisprudence. The fine quality of the book and the binding reflect the importance given to law books in Afghanistan and…
    • Contributor: Muḥammadzāʼī, Gul Muḥammad - Alkūzāʼī, Aḥmad Jān Khān
    • Date: 1893-01-01

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    Dalīl al-ʻārifīn
    /     Lithograph. In Persian. Acquired for LC only.
    • Contributor: Muʻīnuddīn Ḥasan Cishtī Sanjarī Ajmerī - Abd Al-Aḥad, Muḥammad - Bakhtiyār Kākī, Muḥammad Ibn Kamāl Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1893-01-01

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    Nāmah-i Farāzistān
    نامه فرازستان / | Farāzistān | Kitāb-i mustaṭāb-i Farāzistān | Title at the end of errata slip: Parazistan     Lithographed. In Persian. Acquired for LC only.
    • Contributor: Tūysirkānī, Ismaʻīl
    • Date: 1894

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    Siyāḥatʹnāmah-ʼi Nāsir-i Khusraw ʻAlavī
    سياحتنامۀ ناصر خسرو علوى     Travelog of the author to different parts of Middle East.
    • Contributor: Nāṣir-I Khusraw
    • Date: 1894-01-01

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    Tavārīkh-i khūrshīd-i jahān
    / | تواريخ خورشيد جهان /     Tavarikh-i Khurshid-i Jahan (literally, Histories of the sun of the world) is primarily a history of Afghan Pushtun (or Pashtun) ancestry. It describes Afghan Pushtun genealogies, the various lineages, and the many political events, wars, and polities, such as the Safavid and Mughal dynasties in Khorasan and India, with which the Pushtuns have historically been identified. The book is arranged in four sections. Section…
    • Contributor: Ellis, Alexander George - Ganḍāpūr, Sher Muḥammad K̲h̲ān
    • Date: 1894-01-01

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    Tuḥfat al-mulūk
    / | تحفة الملوک /     On improving religious, political and social ways of life; written on the order of Amir of Afghanistan ʻAbduraḥmān K̲h̲ān̲, d. 1901. Tuḥfat al-mulūk (An offering for kings) is a collection of dicta that was written by order of ʻAbd al-Rahman Khan (also seen as Abdur Rahman Khan), who ruled Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901. The work consists of an introduction and 40 miniature "chapters,"…
    • Contributor: Muḥammadzāʼī, Gul Muḥammad
    • Date: 1894-01-01

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    Dīvān-i Mullā Raḥmat Badakhshānī
    / | ديوان ملا رحمت بدخشانى /     Collected works of a classical Afghan poet, first published during the reign of Ḥabīb Allah Khān, Amir of Afghanistan, during late 19th century. Divan-i Mullah Rahmat Badakhshani (The collected works of Mullah Rahmat Badakhshani) is a divan of Khwaja Rahmat Ullah Badakhshani, a late-19th-century poet from Badakhshan, Afghanistan. The book's main section includes several forms of ghazal (lyric) poetry. They include ghazal-e char dar…
    • Contributor: Badakhshānī, Raḥmat - Muḥammadzāʼī, Gul Muḥammad
    • Date: 1894-01-01

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    Rubāʻīyāt-i ʻUmar-i Khayyām-i Nīshāpūrī
    رباعيات عمر خيام نيشاپورى     Lithograph. Text in Persian.
    • Contributor: Omar Khayyam
    • Date: 1894-01-01

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    Ibṭāl maz̲hab al-ṭāʼifah al-z̤āllah al-bābīyah
    ابطال مذهب الطائفه الضاله البابيه /     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Ḥusaynī Ardakānī, Ismāʼīl Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1895

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    Hādhā kitāb Abwāb al-jinān
    هذا كتاب ابواب الجنان | Hāz̲ā Kitāb-i Abvāb al-jinān | Kitāb-i Abvāb al-jinān | Kitāb Abwāb al-jinān     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Vāʻiẓ Qazvīnī, Muḥammad Rafī
    • Date: 1895

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    al-Mawsūm bih Ḥaqāyiq va maʻārif al-qadar
    الموسوم به حقايق و معارف القدر /     Lithographed.
    • Contributor: Salāmat ʻalī K̲h̲ān
    • Date: 1895

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    Huwa tārīkh-i Fārsnāmah-i Nāṣirī
    هو تاريخ فارسنامه ناصرى / | Tārīkh-i Fārsnāmah-i Nāṣirī     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Fasāʼī, Ḥasan Ibn Ḥasan
    • Date: 1895

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    Kitāb-i Khulāṣah-ʼi Hāshimī dar dānistan-i ʻilm-i taqvīm
    / | Khulāṣah-ʼi Hāshimī dar dānistan-i ʻilm-i taqvīm | کتاب خلاصۀ هاشمى در دانستن علم تقويم /     On astronomy and Islamic calendar.
    • Contributor: Hāshim Ibn Nūr Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1895-01-01

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    Hāz̲ā kitāb-i ṭabbākhī al-musammá bih Khvān-i niʻmat
    / | Kitāb-i ṭabbākhī-i Khvān-i niʻmat | Khvān-i niʻmat | هذا کتاب طباخى المسمى به خوان نعمت /     Includes index. Translation of: Dainty dishes for Indian tables. "Īn kitābīst kih dar avval bi-zabān-i Angrīzī būdah nām-i ān, Dainṭī ḍīshiz fār Inḍīyan ṭaybals ast"--Page 2. Lithographed. In Persian; translated from English.
    • Contributor: Muḥammadzāʼī, Gul Muḥammad
    • Date: 1895-01-01

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    Nuskhah-i ṣaḥīḥah-i Iskandarʹnāmah-i mutarjam
    نسخه صحيحه اسکندرنامه مترجم / | Iskandarʹnāmah-ʼi mutarjam | Sikandar namah mutarajjam     Lithographed. In Persian and Urdu.
    • Contributor: Niẓāmī Ganjavī - Balak Ram
    • Date: 1896

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    Tārīkh-i ʻĀlamʹārā-yi ʻAbbāsī
    تاريخ عالمآراى عباسى
    • Contributor: Iskandar Munshī
    • Date: 1896

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    Jāmiʻ al-tavārīkh
    جامع التواريخ /     "Muʼallif-i īn kitāb-i mustaṭāb-i jināb-i ʻaliyīn-i maʼāb Qāz̤ī Faqīr Muḥammad ibn Qāz̤ī Muḥammad Riz̤ā"--Page 3. Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Muḥammad, Qāz̤ī Faqīr
    • Date: 1897

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    ʻImād al-Saʻādat
    عماد السعادت /     History of the Oudh Region in Uttar Pradesh, during the reign of Saʻādat ʻAlī Khān, Nawab Wazir of Oudh, d. 1814.
    • Contributor: ʻalīkhān, Sayyid Ghulām
    • Date: 1897

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    Tuḥfah-ʼi Amīrī
    / | Kitāb-i Tuḥfah-ʼi Amīrī : | Ilm-i bārūdsāzī | تحفۀ اميرى / | ʻIlm-i bārūdsāzī     On the art and knowledge of making explosives for war purposes. Tuḥfah-i Amīrī (The princely offering) is a book on the topic of gunpowder published in Afghanistan at the end of the 19th century. The author, Gul Muhammad Khan Barakzayi, dedicates the work to the Afghan ruler, Amir ʻAbd al-Rahman Khan (reigned 1880-1901). The introduction gives the proportions of the constituent parts of gunpowder…
    • Contributor: Muḥammadzāʼī, Gul Muḥammad
    • Date: 1897-01-01

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    Nafāyis al-funūn fī ʻarāyis al-ʻuyūn
    نفايس الفنون فى عرايس العيون / | Nafāʼis al-funūn fī ʻarāʼis al-ʻuyūn     Lithographed. Colophon of volume 1 has date: 1315 [1897 or 1898]; colophon of volume 2 has date: 1317 [1899]. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Āmulī, Muḥammad Ibn Maḥmūd
    • Date: 1898

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    Inshā-yi fayz̤rasān
    انشاى فيضرسان /     Letter samples for the students of Persian.
    • Contributor: Ḥifẓ Allāh
    • Date: 1898

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    Kitāb-i mustaṭāb-i Kanz al-ansāb maʻrūf bih Baḥr al-ansāb : dar taḥqīq-i ḥasab va nasab-i Imāmān va Imāmzādagān-i vājib al-taʻẓīm va bayān-i maḥall-i maqābir va mashāhid-i ānhā dar har khiṭṭah va maqām va …
    کتاب مستطاب کنز الانساب معروف به بحر الانساب : در تحقيق حسب و نسب امامان و امامزادگان واجب التعظيم و بيان محل مقابر و مشاهد آنها در هر خطه و مقام و ذکر حسب و نسب سادات عالى درجات عموما / | Kanz al-ansāb | Baḥr al-ansāb     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: ʻilm Al-Hudá, Sayyid Murtaz̤á
    • Date: 1898

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    Kitab-i ʻamal al-ṣāliḥīn
    / | Amal al-ṣāliḥīn | کتاب عمل الصالحين / | ʻAmal al-ṣāliḥīn     This work is a lithographic print of a manuscript containing a treatise on pharmacology. It was produced in Kabul, in the Royal Printing House, by Ṣāliḥ ibn Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad and Sardār Gul Muḥammad Khān. Ṣāliḥ ibn Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad was an officer and commander from the Muhammadzai clan in the Pashtun tribal confederacy that ruled Afghanistan in the Barakzai period (1826-1973) after the fall of…
    • Contributor: Liḥ Ibn Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad - Ṣāliḥ Ibn Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad - Muḥammadzāʼī, Gul Muḥammad
    • Date: 1898-01-01

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    Inshā-yi Khalīfah
    انشاى خليفه     On Persian letter writing.
    • Contributor: Kanawjī, Khalīfah Shāh Muḥammad
    • Date: 1898-01-01

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    Pizishkīʹnāmah : dar ʻilm-i tirāpūtīk, Māyir Midīkāl
    پزشکىنامه : در علم تراپوتىک، ماىر مدىکال / | Naẓm al-aṭibbā     Lithograph text. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Nafīsī, ʻalī Akbar
    • Date: 1899

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    Falak al-saʻādah
    / | Kitāb-i mustaṭāb-i falak al-saʻādah     Research based on transformation of the principles of natural philosophy. Understanding the nature of the system also mechanically fixed to reinforce the social system.
    • Contributor: Iʻtiz̤ād Al-Salṭanah, ʻalī Qulī Mirzā
    • Date: 1899-01-01

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    Gulshan-i taʻashshuq
    / | گلشن تعشق /     Poems. Lithographed. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Asīr
    • Date: 1899-01-01

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    Maṭlaʻ al-saʻdayn
    مطلع السعدين | Maṭla-us-Saʻdain | Matla-us sudain : history of the period from 704 A.H. to 874 A.H. Starting from the birth of Sultan Abu Saeed Khan and others describing the empires of Iran and Turan     The first volume of a two volume work which in all covers 170 years. The first volume covers the years from the birth of the last Mongol ruler of Persia Abū Saʻīd (704/1304/5) until the death of Abū S aʻīd, the granson of Tīmūr (807/1405). This manuscript is volume one of Matla us-Sadain wa Majma ul-Baahrain (The rising of the propitious twin stars and…
    • Contributor: ʻabd Al-Razzāq Kamāl Al-Dīn Ibn Isḥāq Al-Samarqandī
    • Date: 18??

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    Risālah fī al-tajwīd bi-al-lughah al-Fārisīyah li-Muḥammad al-Bāqir
    رسالة في التجويد باللغة الفارسية لمحمد الباقر     Treatise on the art of reciting the Qurʼan.
    • Contributor: Asmāʼī, Muḥammad Al-Bāqir Ibn Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 18??

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