IO Islamic 3716 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Romance of Amir Mukhtar Saqafi
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1 copy of Mukhtār'nāmah
Anonymously written prose version of the romance of Amīr Abū Isḥāq Mukhtār ibn Abū ʿUbayd ibn Masʿūd al-S̲aqafī (d. 67/687), the ruler of Kufa, who challenged Umayyad and Zubayrid authority, while pursuing the named perpetrators of atrocities against Imām Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn and his family
The work lacks a preface or introduction
Crude illuminated headpiece added later to opening, with outlined gold wash interlinear taḥrīr
Dated at end: completed during the night of Wednesday, 19 Muḥarram 1278/27 July 1861, by Aṣghar ʿAlī Bayg known as Sangī Bayg, for his singular friend Mirzā Khudā Bakhsh Bayg Khān
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