Delhi Persian 326 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 253(a), ff. 1v-32v.

Fragment of a polemic treatise written from the Sunnī perspective treating the Islamic heresies in India, especially the Shīʿah faith (termed Rāfiz̤īyah here), by Muḥammad Niẓām al-Dīn, a descendent of the famous muḥaddis̲ Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Dihlavī. The author mentions that he also wrote other works at length on the subject, such as the Khavāfiz̤ al-Ravāfiz̤.

Defective at end.

Not dated at end.

Varying portions of some pages are written with the text laid out in alternating oblique orientations.

Dense annotations in part; cropped.

Delhi Persian 253(b), ff. 33v-175v.

Untitled work abridging the polemic treatise by Muḥammad Niẓām al-Dīn, entitled Nikāt al-zakāt, dealing with Islamic heresies in India, especially the Shīʿah faith (termed Rāfiz̤īyah here), additionally supplemented here with excerpts from named Shīʿah authorities in support of the main thesis.

Varying portions of some pages are written with the text laid out in alternating oblique orientations.

Dense annotations in part; cropped.

Delhi Persian 1208(c), ff. 176r-189v.

Polemic treatise on Sunnī and Shīʿah perspectives on companions of the Prophet Muḥammad, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Varying portions of some pages are written with the text laid out in alternating oblique orientations.

Calligraphic naskh annotations including the first verse of sūrat Baqarahfrom the Qurʾān(1: II).

Dense annotations in part; cropped.

Delhi Persian 253(d), ff. 190r-195v.

Polemic treatise on Sunnī and Shīʿah perspectives on companions of the Prophet Muḥammad by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Varying portions of some pages are written with the text laid out in alternating oblique orientations.

Dense annotations in part; cropped.

Delhi Persian 253(e), ff. 196r-201v.

Untitled treatise on Amīr Ḥamzah(d. 3/625) by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 253(f), ff. 202r-223v.

Untitled Arabic polemic treatise written from the Sunnī perspective critiquing the Shīʿah faith (termed Rāfiz̤īyah here), especially the writings of ʿAbd Allāh Shūstarī, addressing particular allegations against the Caliph Abū Bakr and others, by Muḥammad Fākhir Hindī al-Ilāh'ābādī, writing in 1150/1737-8.

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Annotations and corrections.

Extensive Persian notes extending the thesis of the Arabic treatise follow, concluding with comments on the Farhang-i Jahāngīrī.

Transcribed tightly in a squat shikastah āmīz.

Delhi Persian 253(g), ff. 224v-257r.

Untitled Arabic hagiographic treatise by an unnamed author, on the subject of Shīʿah perspectives on the imamate and imams, abridging in the style of a safīnah or miscellany the Kashf al-ghummah fī maʿrifat al-aʾimmahby Shaykh ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsá ibn Abū al-Fatḥ al-Irbilī(d. 692/1293).

The work ends without formal conclusion.

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Scribal taʿlīq.

Delhi Persian 253(h), f. 258r.

Exercises of calligraphic naskh of the basmalah and the first verse of sūrat Baqarahfrom the Qurʾān(1: II).

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Arabic and Persian annotations on the reverse.