Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 83* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Contents

1 copy of a work by Amjad ʿAlī Is̲nā ʿAsharī

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Fragment of an untitled polemic treatise rebutting objections raised on doctrinal and ritual details in Shi’ism, focusing especially on the relationship of Ḥanafī scholars with Imām Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, written in dialogic form by Amjad ʿAlī Is̲nā ʿAsharī.

The work is defective at end.

Not dated at end; dateable to the nineteenth century.

Nastaʿlīq with Arabic quotations in naskh.

Paper dust wrapper (BEIC legal publication on rates of duty, not dated); watermarked (lion rampant guardant holding sceptre in crowned oval frame; not dated); label, creased and stained.

Folios detached; cropped, strong water stains causing smudging and sticking of folios, wormholes.

Condition fragile.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 9 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 224 × 166 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 19th century India

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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