Delhi Persian 878 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Polemic against Wahhabism, 3 items (a-c)

Summary of Contents: Polemic treatise against Wahhabism, with miscellaneous lists of contents, mainly by Muḥammad Karīm Allāh of Delhi. Volume not dated. Rough nastaʿlīq with ornamental naskh for headings. Occasional annotations in margins. Persian foliation, refoliated in pencil due to additional leaves misplaced at the beginning. Lacking original binding. Binding damaged (combed marble paper with brown leather edging over pasteboards), labels. Folios mostly bound, gathering detached from covers; cropped, wormholes, later repairs. Condition fragile.

Language(s): Arabic

1. ff. 1r-4v

Language(s): Arabic

Delhi Persian 236(a), ff. 1r-4v.

Untitled list of contents for the treatise Shams al-īmān.

Not dated at end.

2. ff. 5r-12r

Delhi Persian 236(b), ff. 5r-12r.

Untitled list of contents for an unnamed treatise (see item Delhi Persian 878(c).

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Arabic

3. ff. 13v-239v

Delhi Persian 236 c, ff. 13v-239v.

Arabic polemic treatise refuting doctrines of the Vahhābīyahsect from the traditional Sunnī perspective, by the scholar Muḥammad Karīm Allāh ibn Luṭf Allāh Shāhjahānābādī, written in 1264/1848.

Not dated at end.

The work is followed by miscellaneous list of contents in Arabic and Persian.

Language(s): Arabic and Persian

Author: Muḥammad Karīm Allāh محمّد كريم الله

Title: Ḥaqq al-ṣarīḥ fī bayān al-naṣīḥ

Title: حقّ الصّريح فى بيان النّصيح

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 241 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 162 mm.

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History

Origin: c. 1848 Shāhjahānābād India, Delhi

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876

1876

Government of India

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