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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialFaqrʹnāmah
فقرنامه / On Sufism, probably written in Afghanistan between 1772-1793 during the reign of Tīmūr Shāh Durrānī, 1742 or 1743-1793.- Contributor: K̲h̲arqānī, K̲h̲vājah Abulḥasan
- Date: 1772
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Unnamed Sufi treatise] This manuscript in Persian is an untitled Sufi text on meditation containing both poetry and prose. It was completed in early 1520, probably in Herat (present-day Afghanistan) or Mashhad (present-day Iran). The colophon, which is in Arabic, gives the name of the scribe, Mīr 'Alī Ḥusaynī Haravī (circa 1476-1543). The manuscript is on a firm cream-colored paper inlaid into light cream (folios 1-8) or…- Contributor: Mīr ʻalī Ḥusaynī Haravī
- Date: 1520
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Fragment of a Persian manuscript on the tribes of Afghanistan, mainly in Paktīā Province] Description of the tribes of Afghanistan, fragment covers mostly the Paktīā Region.- Date: 19??
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Calligrapher's sample book.]
Huwa al-rashīd Calligrapher's sample book.- Contributor: Daylamī, ʻabd Al-Rashīd
- Date: 1650
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Calligrapher's sample book.] Calligrapher's sample book.- Contributor: Ḥusaynī, Ḥasanʻalī
- Date: 1874
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialTuḥfat al-aḥbāb fī taz̲kirat al-aṣḥāb, yaʻnī, Taz̲kirat al-shuʻarā-yi Fārsī
تحفة الاحباب فى تذکرة الاصحاب، يعنى، تذکرة الشعراى فارسى / | Tuḥfat al-aḥbāb fī tadhkirat al-aṣḥāb | Tuḥfat al-aḥbāb fī taz̲karat al-aṣḥāb | Taz̲kirat al-shuʻarā-yi Fārsī Poets, Persian Tajikistan Biography; Persian poetry.- Contributor: Afandī, Hāshim - Vāz̤iḥ Bukhārī, Raḥmat Allāh
- Date: 1953
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialBayāz̤-i Ghaws̲iyah-i Ḥaz̤rat Ghaws̲-i Aʻẓam Muḥyī al-Dīn Jīlānī
بياض غوثيه حضرت غوث أعظم محى الدين جيلانى / Poems. Manuscript. In Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Date from cover. Written by Ghulām Ismāʻīl. Written in Afghanistan. Paper; modern cream color paper; black ink; some sections written diagonally; no catchwords. Nastaʻliq; 15 lines, with some pages of fewer lines written diagonally. Binding is marbled paper over cardboard; light tan leather spine; text block separated from binding.- Contributor: ʻabd Al-Qādir Al-Jīlānī - Ismāʻīl, Ghulām
- Date: 1909
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialNuskhah-i Divān-i Hilālī
Dīvān-i Halālī The poems of Badr al-Dīn al-Hilālī with an introduction.- Contributor: Hilālī, Badr Al-Dīn
- Date: 1814
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKullīyāt-i ashʻār va ghazalīyāt-i Mīrzā Maḥmūd Khān Bālāʹḥiṣārī Kābulī al-mutakhalliṣ bih (Sālik)
کليات اشعار و غزليات ميرزا محمود خان بالاحصارى کابلى المتخلص به (سالک | Mirzā Maḥmūd Khān Poems. Manuscript. LC copy imperfect: Pages 370-371 torn with loss of text. In Persian.- Contributor: Sālik, Mīrzā Maḥmūd Khān
- Date: 1938
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDivan-i Ṭarzī
ديوان طرزي Complete poems of Ghulām Muḥammad Ṭarzī. Divan-i Ṭarzī (Poetic collection of Tarzi) contains verses by Ghulām Muḥammad Ṭarzī (1830-1900), mostly concerning piety, ethics, politics, and society in 19th century Afghanistan. Tarzi came from a distinguished background; he belonged to the Mohammadzai sub-lineage of the Durranis, one of two main Afghan Pashtun lineages, the other being Ghilzai. Because of their connections to Muḥammad Yaʻqūb Khān,…- Contributor: Ṭarzī, Ghulām Muḥammad - ʻabd Al-Laṭīf Khān Pisar-I ʻabd Al-Ghaffār Khān
- Date: 1914
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDar bayān-i kayfiyat-i madd va jazr-i Islām
در بيان کيفيت مد و جزر اسلام / | Madd va jazr-i Islām | Mad va jazr-i Islām Versified short history of Islam.- Contributor: Bismil, ʻubaidullāh
- Date: 1902
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialGulshan-i rāz : s̲ālis̲
گلشن راز : ثالث / Gulshan-i rāz (The garden of mystery) is a 20th century text on the Nizari Ismaʻili belief system, written by Nadir Shah Kayani (circa 1897-circa 1971), a leader of the Ismaʻili community in Afghanistan. The title of this work deliberately echoes a celebrated Ismaʻili book of verse of the same name composed by Mahmud Shabistari in 1317. Nadir Shah's work is organized in 14 sections,…- Contributor: Kiyānī, Nādir Shāh
- Date: 19??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialRisālah-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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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialGulshan-i tawḥīd
گلشن توحيد / Tauhid (the belief in the unity of God) is a central tenet of Islam that also serves as one of the main inspirations of the Masnavi (The spiritual couplets) of Maulana Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-73). This principle also appears in the title of Ibrahim Shahidi Dadah's book Gulshan-i Tauḥīd (Garden of Unitarianism), a work that was inspired by Rumi's well-loved Masnavi. Shahidi Dadah…- Contributor: Shāhidī Dadah Mughlavī, Ibrāhīm Ibn Ṣāliḥ - Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī
- Date: 1817
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialTaz̲kirat al-khaṭṭāṭīn
تذکرة الخطاطين / | Mas̲navī-i Taz̲kirat al-khaṭṭāṭīn | Mas̲navī-i Rājī Short versified description of calligraphers of Bukhoro (Uzbekistan). Taz̲kirat al-khaṭṭāṭīn (Memorial of calligraphers) is a book of verse in the mathnawi form. This type of poetry is based on a scheme of individually rhyming couplets and is used in many important works of Persian literature. The author, Muhammad Idris Khvajah Raji Bukhari (died 1919 or 1920), was a literary figure in the fabled city…- Contributor: Rājī Bukhārī, Muḥammad Idrīs Khvājah - Bukhārī, ʻināyat Allāh Khvājah
- Date: 1908
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