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Lavami‘ of Majlisi, vol. 1

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1 copy of Lavāmiʿ by Majlisī, Muḥammad Taqī ibn Maqṣūd ʻAlī, 1594 or 5-1659 or 60

Author: Majlisī, Muḥammad Taqī ibn Maqṣūd ʻAlī, 1594 or 5-1659 or 60 مجلسي، محمد تقي بن مقصود علي

Title: Lavāmiʿ

Title: لوامع

Translation of a larger Arabic treatise on the traditions of Imām Jaʿfar and the later aʾimmah of Twelver Shi‘ism, entitled Lavāmiʿ-i ṣāḥib'qirānī

The author (aged 70) was aided in his work by his patron, Shāh ʿAbbās II

The present volume consists of the section on purity or ṭahārah

Later replacement folios 256-430

Not dated at end

Unbound; loose folios; damaged by wormholes; very fragile

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 430 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 265 × 185 mm.

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History

Origin: 17th-18th centuries CE ; India or Iran

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