Delhi Persian 323 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 323(a), ff. 1v-11v.

Transcript of a letter on criticisms to the three Shīʿah sectarian treatises, Ṣavārim, Ḥusām, and Z̲ū al-Fiqār, from Javād ʿAlīaddressed to his spiritual leader and the author, Mawlavī Dildār ʿAlī(d. 1235/1819).

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Delhi Persian 323(b), ff. 12r-15r.

Brief sectarian polemical treatise on doubts and concerns over the treatise entitled al-Ṣavārim, by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 323(c), ff. 12r-15r.

Brief sectarian polemical treatise critiquing Shīʿī accounts of the Caliph ʿUmar striking the stomach of Fāṭimah bint Muḥammad, as related in the treatise entitled Z̲ū al-Fiqār, by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 323(d), ff. 18r-21r.

Transcript of a theological letter from Mawlavī Dildār ʿAlīsent to one of his followers on points of detail in the writings of Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Dihlavīthe muḥaddis̲.

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Delhi Persian 323(e), ff. 21v-28r .

Transcript of theological doubts and concerns relating to a letter from Mawlavī Dildār ʿAlī.

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Annotations.

Delhi Persian 323(f.), ff. 29r-30r.

Transcript of a letter on Islamic sectarian polemics in Lucknow and Delhi from Mawlavī Dildār ʿAlī addressed to Mawlavī ʿAbd al-Qādir Khān ṣāḥib.

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Delhi Persian 323(g), ff. 30v-31r.

Transcript of a brief reply to a letter on theological questions addressed to Mawlānā Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn Khān ṣāḥib.

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Delhi Persian 323(h), ff. 32r-52v.

Transcript of a rebuttal to the first of several theological postulations set out in the book written and sent by Khān ṣāḥib.

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Delhi Persian 323(i), ff. 53r-96v.

Untitled theological treatise by Mawlānā Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn Khānwritten in rebuttal to a treatise by Muḥammad Qulī, Muftī of Meerath, written circa 1231/1816.

The work begins with a lengthy Arabic preface.

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Delhi Persian 323(j), ff. 97r-102v.  

Theological treatise answering jibes on the permissibility of music and song stated in the Tuḥfah-'i Is̲nāʾ ʿAsharīyahof ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad Dihlavī(d. 1239/1823-4).

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Delhi Persian 323(k), ff. 102v-106v.  

Untitled polemic treatise comparing Sunnī and Shīʿah perceptions of divinity by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 323(l), ff. 106v-107v.  

Untitled polemic treatise on the subject of the murder of the Imam and Caliph ʿAlī(d. 40/661) by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 323(m), ff. 107v-114v.  

Untitled polemic treatise on questions over the role of Jibrāʾīlin the revelation of the Qurʾānto the Prophet Muḥammad, by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 323(n), ff. 114v-117v.  

Untitled theological treatise by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 323(o), ff. 117v-119v.  

Untitled theological treatise on a point of detail raised by Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn Suyūṭīby an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 323(p), ff. 120r-127r.  

Theological treatise by Mawlavī Muḥammad Qulī, Muftī of Meerath, writing in favour of Sunnī opinions, despite professing the Shīʿah Imāmī faith.

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Delhi Persian 323(q), f. 128r.  

Brief statement on proofs for the Shīʿah faith, by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 323(r), ff. 128v-133r.  

Fragment of a theological treatise by Javād ʿAlīaddressed to his spiritual leader and the author on many Shīʿī treatises, Mawlavī Dildār ʿAlī(d. 1235/1819).

The descriptive title has been corrected and re-transcribed vertically in the margin by the main scribe.

This copy ends abruptly without formal conclusion.

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