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Book/Printed MaterialLyric Poems of Hāfiz. Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī (known as Hāfiz; circa 1320--90) is considered by many to be the greatest lyric poet of Persia (present-day Iran) and one of the most remarkable Eastern poets. Born to a poor family in Shiraz, where he lived most of his life, Hāfiz enjoyed the patronage of Shah Shujah for many years and in his last years that of Timur (Tamerlane).…- Contributor: Fiẓ, 14th Century
- Date: 1901-01-01
- Resource: - 139 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialSelected Poetry of Zafar Muntakhib Kulliyat-I Zafar is a collection of poetry by the last Mughal emperor and last ruler of the Timurid Dynasty, Muhammad Bahadur Shah II (1775--1862), generally known as Bahadar Shah Zafar. The son of Akbar Shah II, the ruler of a declining empire, Zafar was a prolific writer and a great Urdu poet. He was influenced by Sauda, Meer, and Insha, eminent Urdu poets…- Contributor: Muhammad Bahadur Shah II
- Date: 1912
- Resource: - 186 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Spiritual Couplets. The most significant contribution of Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (popularly known in Persian as Mawlānā, and in English as Rumi, 1207--73), the renowned poet and mystic of Iran, to Persian literature may be his poetry, and especially his famous Masnavi (The spiritual couplets). This work, which is said to be the most extensive verse exposition of mysticism in any language, discusses and offers solutions…- Contributor: Vesal, Towhid - Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana
- Date: 2006-01-01
- Resource: - 374 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialTreatise on Holy War. The first Persian printing press in Iran was established in 1816 in Tabriz, and the first book published by the press was Jihādīyyah (Treatise on holy war), written by Abu al-Qasim ibn 'Isá Qa'im'maqam Farahani (circa 1779--1835), the prime minister of Persia at that time. During the reign of King Fath Ali Shah (1772--1834, reigned 1797--1834), while the Qajar government was absorbed with managing…- Contributor: Qāʼimʹmaqām, Abū Al-Qāsim Ibn ʻīsá
- Date: 1817-01-01
- Resource: - 92 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialCompendium of Latin Translations of Persian Astronomical Tables.
Chorasmiae, et Marawalnaharae, hoc est, Regionum extra fluvium Oxum Descriptio, Ex Tabulis Abulfedae Ismaelis...Epochae celebriores, Astronomis, Historicis, Chronologis, Chataiorum, Syro-Graecorum, Arabum, Persarum, Chorasmiorum...Ex traditione Ulug Beigi...Tabulae longitudinae ac latitudinae stellarum fixarum, ex observatione Ulugh Beighi... Mohammedis Tizini Tabulae declinationum & rectarum ascensionum... elenchus nominarum stellarum...In Ulugh Beighi Tabulas stellarum Fixarum Commentarii This volume is a compendium of six works that includes Latin translations of portions of the Zīj-i Sulṭānī by Muḥammad Ṭaraghāy ibn Shāhrukh ibn Tīmūr (1394--1449), known as Ulugh Beg. The other works include an excerpt from the Taqwīm al-Buldān (entitled "A Description of Khwārazm and Transoxiana from the Tables of Abū al-Fidāʾ") by Abū al-Fidāʾ Ismā'īl Ibn 'Alī (1273-1331), and a star table…- Contributor: Abū Al-Fidā', Ismā'īl Ibn 'Alī - Hyde, Thomas - Al-Tizīnī, Muhammad Ibn Muhammad - Greaves, John - Ulugh Beg
- Date: 1665-01-01
- Resource: - 268 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialGrammar and Its Standards. This anonymous work from 1553 is a Persian grammar, written in Arabic. It includes some Arabic adjectives translated into Persian, and is written in a poor nasta'līq script. The manuscript is from the Bašagić Collection of Islamic Manuscripts in the University Library of Bratislava, Slovakia, which was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 1997. Safvet beg Bašagić (1870-1934) was a…- Date: 1553-01-01
- Resource: - 4 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialCommentary of Husayn. Tafsīr-i Ḥusaynī (Commentary of Husayn) is a commentary on the Qurʼan, transcribed in two volumes. The original commentary was written in 1504 (910 AH), but this copy was made in 1855--57 (1272--74 AH) by Wali ul Din. The first volume of this manuscript covers the chapters (surahs) in the Qurʼan from Fatihah (Opening verse) to Kahf (The cave); the second volume the surahs from…- Contributor: Wali Ul Din
- Date: 1855-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialAnthology of Rumi's Poetry Divan-i Mawlavī Rumi (Anthology of Rumi's poetry) is a collection by the great Persian poet, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, popularly known in Persian as Mawlānā and in English as Rumi (1207--73). The collection includes poems on Sufism, supplications, and philosophy. The manuscript does not have a title page. Every poem is individual and self-contained, and the name of the poet appears at the end…- Contributor: Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana
- Date: 1800-01-01
- Resource: - 140 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialBook of Akbar. Akbar Namah (Book of Akbar) is a historical discourse on Akbar's rule in India written by Ḥamīd ullah Shāhabādī Kashmirī, a reputed historian and poet of Kashmir, India. Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar (1542--1605), also known as Akbar the Great, was a Mughal emperor who ruled India from 1556 to 1605. The manuscript was made by an unknown copyist in the 19th century. The fringe of…- Contributor: Ullah Shāhabādī Kashmirī, Ḥamīd
- Date: 1836-01-01
- Resource: - 133 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialShirin and Khusraw. Shirin va Khusraw (Shirin and Khusraw) is a story written in the 12th century by Shaykh Niẓāmī Ganjavi (circa 1140-1202), based on a tale found in Shahnamah (Book of kings), the epic-historical work of Persian literature composed at the end of the tenth century by the poet Firdawsi (circa 940--1020). The legend was well known before Firdawsi and further romanticized by later Persian poets.…- Contributor: Mir, Sidiq - Niẓāmī Ganjavī,1
- Date: 1857-01-01
- Resource: - 278 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Great History of the Events of Kashmir. Tārīkh-i A'ẓami: Vāqi'at Kashmīri (The great history of the events of Kashmir) is a history of Kashmir, India, from the 12th century to the 18th century, written in 1747 by the saint, scholar, and poet of Kashmir, Mohammad A'zam Diddimrī Kashmirī (flourished 18th century). The work is considered to be one of the important authentic sources for the medieval history of Kashmir. This volume…- Contributor: Mohammad A'zam Diddimrī Kashmirī, Flourished 18th Century
- Date: 1821-01-01
- Resource: - 314 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Days of Mutiny. Ayām-i Ghadr (The days of mutiny) is a historical account of events related to the Indian Mutiny of 1857, an uprising of native soldiers (sepoys) against the army of the British East India Company, which marked an important step in India's struggle for independence and freedom from British rule. The manuscript is a rare unpublished source on Indian history, and particularly on the Mutiny…- Contributor: Muhammad Yūsuf Ibn Muhhammad Ja'far
- Date: 1893-01-01
- Resource: - 177 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialLetters by 'Alī Ḥamdānī. Maktūbāt-i Sayyid 'Alī Ḥamdānī (Letters by Ali Hamdani) is a collection letters by the famous Persian scholar, saint, and preacher Sayyid 'Alī Ḥamdānī (1314--85 A.D.; A.H. 714--87). He came from Hamdan in Central Asia and traveled to Kashmir in 1372--73 A.D. to spread the message of Islam. This is one of the rarest extant manuscripts of letters from the saint to his disciples, directing…- Contributor: Hamadhānī, ʻalī Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 1372-01-01
- Resource: - 54 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Life of the Prophet. Maghāzī al-Nabī (The life of the Prophet) depicts the life of the Prophet Muhammad in poetical form. The original work was composed by a famous Arabic and Persian scholar of Kashmir, Ya'qub Ṣarfī (1521--95). The unique poetic and biographical work, transcribed in two columns on each page of manuscript, includes some supplications and eulogies for the Prophet of Islam. Each column is bordered in…- Contributor: Shaik̲h̲ Yaʻqūb Ṣarfī
- Date: 1886-01-01
- Resource: - 186 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialTreatise on the Rules and Meters of Poetry. Risalat-i'Urūḍ va Qafiyah (Treatise on the rules and meters of poetry) is about rules and conventions to be followed in writing good poetry. The manuscript, copied in Kashmir, India, in 1677 (1088 AH) from a work by an unknown author, discusses different aspects of the writing of poetry and elucidates the different elements and considerations used in creating good poetry.- Contributor: Saifi
- Date: 1677-01-01
- Resource: - 52 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialBurning and Melting. This manuscript is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the poem Sūz va gudāz (Burning and melting) by Naw'ī Khabūshānī, who died in 1019 AH (1610 AD). It recounts the love story of a Hindu girl who burns herself on the funeral pyre of her betrothed. The codex was written in Nasta'līq script in black ink by Ibn Sayyid Murād al-Ḥusaynī and illustrated by…- Contributor: Mashhadī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻalī, 1164 - Nawʻī Khabūshānī, Muḥammad Riz̤ā, 16090 - Ibn Sayyid Murād Al-Ḥusaynī
- Date: 1657-01-01
- Resource: - 63 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialQurʼan. This large-format illuminated Timurid copy of the Qurʼan is believed to have been produced in northern India in the 15th century. The manuscript opens with a series of illuminated frontispieces. The main text is written in a large, vocalized polychrome muhaqqaq script. Marginal explanations of the readings of particular words and phrases are in thuluth and naskh scripts, and there is interlinear Persian translation…- Date: 1400-01-01
- Resource: - 1113 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialStories of the Prophets. Qisas al-anbiya (Stories of the prophets) by the 12th-century Persian writer Ishaq Ibn-Ibrahim al-Nishapuri contains the history of the prophets up to Muhammad, recounted on the basis of the Qur'anic narration. It includes stories drawn from the biblical traditions of the Old Testament as well as material on the pre-Islamic prophets of the Arabian Peninsula. This splendid and richly illuminated manuscript containing 22 miniatures…- Contributor: Nīšāpūrī, Isḥāq Ibn-Ibrāhīm
- Date: 1577-01-01
- Resource: - 505 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialMemoirs of Babur. Recognized as one of the world's great autobiographical memoirs, the Bāburnāmah is the story of Zahīr al-Dīn Muhammad Bābur, who was born in 1483 and ruled from the age of 11 until his death in 1530. Babur conquered northern India and established the Mughal Empire (or Timurid-Mughal Empire). Originally from Fergana in Central Asia, Babur descended on his father's side from Timur (Tamerlaine) and…- Contributor: Babur, Emperor of Hindustan
- Date: 1575-01-01
- Resource: - 78 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Book of Kings. This manuscript containing 215 illustrations is one of the largest pictorial cycles of the Shāhnāma, the Persian Book of Kings. Several painters, working at different times, were involved in its illumination; the miniatures thus are not uniform in style. Four distinct groups can be identified, with the two oldest groups dating from the 16th century. The miniatures of the first group show large-scale compositions…- Contributor: Firdawsī, 940
- Date: 1560-01-01
- Resource: - 1530 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Khamsah of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī. This is a deluxe copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (circa 1253--1325), who was India's foremost Sufi poet who wrote in Persian. His quintet is a retelling of the five stories by 12th-century poet Nizāmī Ganjavī. The manuscript was written in nasta'līq script by one of the greatest calligraphers of the Mughal atelier, Muhammad Husayn al-Kashmīrī, who was honored with the…- Contributor: Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī - Luṭf Allāh Muz̲ahhib - Mukund - Manūhar - Muhammad Husayn Al-Kashmīrī - Narsing - Niẓāmī Ganjavī,1 - Manṣūr Naqqāsh - Laʻl (Lāl) - Khvājah Jān Shīrāzī ... Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī - Luṭf Allāh Muz̲ahhib - Mukund - Manūhar - Muhammad Husayn Al-Kashmīrī - Narsing - Niẓāmī Ganjavī,1 - Manṣūr Naqqāsh - Laʻl (Lāl) - Khvājah Jān Shīrāzī - Alīqulī - Usayn Naqqāsh - Dharamdās - Sānwalah - Sūrdās Gujarātī - Farrukh
- Date: 1598-01-01
- Resource: - 426 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialMihr and Mushtari. This manuscript is an illustrated copy of the well-known poem recounting the platonic love story between Mihr (the Sun), the son of Shāhpūr, and his vizier's son Mushtarī (Jupiter). The story of 90 chapters was composed by Muhammad ibn Ahmad 'Assār Tabrīzī, who died in around 1382. The present copy was written in nasta'līq script in 1476 by Murshid al-Kātib, who came from Shiraz…- Contributor: Aṣṣār Tabrīzī, Muḥammad - Murshid Al-Kātib
- Date: 1476-01-01
- Resource: - 499 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialCollection of Poems by Jāmī. This work dating from the 16th century is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the first collection of poetry (called Dīvān-i avval or Fātihat al-shabāb) 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, in present-day Afghanistan. According to the colophon (folio 306a), the manuscript was copied by the illustrious Safavid…- Contributor: Jāmī - Shāh Maḥmūd Nīshābūrī
- Date: 1500-01-01
- Resource: - 625 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialCollection of Poems by Hasan Dihlavī. This is an illuminated and illustrated Mughal copy of a dīvān (collection of poems) by the eminent poet and hagiographer of Islamic India, Hasan Dihlavī, who died in about 1338. The manuscript was written in nasta'līq script by 'Abd Allāh Mushkīn Qalam (Amber-Scented Pen), in Allāhābād in 1011 AH (1602 AD), according to the colophon on folio 187a, although the illustration on that page…- Contributor: Asan Dihlavī,- 1338 - Mir `abd Allah Katib
- Date: 1602-01-01
- Resource: - 388 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialCollection of Short Love Poems by Jāmī. This is an illuminated and illustrated manuscript of a small collection of short love poems of the type called tarjī`band by Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). It was copied in black nasta'līq script by the calligrapher Muḥammad Zamān al-Tabrīzī in 998 AH / 1589-90 CE in Safavid Iran. The text is written on orange-tinted paper, and the bluish-green…- Contributor: Jāmī - Muḥammad Zamān Al-Tabrīzī
- Date: 1589-01-01
- Resource: - 28 pages